Proverbs 22:3 "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."
A prudent man "foreseeth the evil." He studies a matter carefully and derives insight from it. He is not satisfied to take things at face value, but will seek to understand them at a deeper level. He will do research.
Proverbs 16:21 "The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning."
A prudent is "wise in heart" according to this verse. He is wise to know that he cannot simply believe in something without first understanding the consequences of what will follow, and never to take things at face value. The opposite of a prudent man is the "simple," as in:
Proverbs 14:15 "The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going."
The "simple" will believe every word from anyone whom he perceive as authority. He is right in his own eyes, as in:
Proverbs 12:15 "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."
Here, the Bible calls him a "fool." Connect this to:
Proverbs 18:2 "A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself."
A fool has no delight in understanding because wisdom is too high for him (Proverbs 24:7). He will never search out a matter, but will rather follow his heart.
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
It is easy to deceive a fool. As long as the word comes from the government, the media or even his pastor, a fool will accept it without question. He has no need to search out a matter because he always goes by his heart.
Proverbs 25:2 "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”
The heart of a king is to "search out a matter" according to this verse. Born again believers are "kings and priests" unto God (Revelation 1:5-6). Therefore, it is in the nature of every child of God to "search out a matter," to establish a fact before they will take something as factual. If it is not a fact, they must reject.
1 Timothy 3:15 “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
It is the duty of every born again believer to study a matter carefully and establish the truth. If a thing is not true, it is the duty of the church to reject it as false, because the church is the pillar and ground of the truth.
Proverbs 8:13 “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Psalms 119:104 “Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.”
It is in the nature of every born again believer who love the truth to hate evil. The love of the truth is to hate every evil way, and to reject every false way. The opposite of “every false way” is Jesus Christ (“the truth”):
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
The love of the truth is to love life. To hate the truth is to love death.
Proverbs 8:36 “But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.”
The love of “the truth” (Jesus Christ) is a sure mark of a born again believer. To love death is to hate Jesus Christ who came to give himself for the world.
James 2:8 "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:"
Therefore, it is in the nature of every born again believer who love the truth to love his neighbour as himself. He does not want his neighbour to get in harms way.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”
This verse tells us that those who have not the love of the truth are not born again believers. John further elaborates:
1 John 3:14-15 “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”
As of today, many people have paid the price for believing in a pseudo-science with their lives. Given the great number of deaths and injuries that have resulted from or related to the C19 snake bites, I still don't see churches coming out to blow the trumpet on the increasing number of sudden deaths, heart-attacks and healthy people getting turbo-cancers. Aren't those churches supposed to be the "pillar and ground of the truth?" (1 Timothy 3:15)
Ezekiel 33:6 "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand."
As a matter of fact, churches all over Singapore were doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to be doing according to the Holy Bible. At one point, they were asking their members to go take the snake bites or be barred from worshipping God in their premises. They were telling church members to obey the government and trust the MSM.
John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
A real church would stand her ground against evil, would it not? Churches that fail to stand as pillars and grounds of the truth are not real churches, what more, churches that are helping to propagate the lies of the government and the globalists, helping them to oppress their brethren and murder them?
Revelation 3:9 "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."
The church of the living God will do the will of God, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. Churches that pretend to the church of the living God are not real churches, but "synagogue of Satan," because they do the will of their father, the Devil. While they may look like whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, within them are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness. These are pharisaical churches which outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
🗣️ Pure truth. TY
Well written brother in Christ! I fully agree with you! Amen 🙏