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Episode 1
- "Jordan and his round table explore the themes of freedom against tyranny, God’s allowance of evil, and faith as an adventure within the first three chapters of Exodus. They seek to answer the question of whether one should take the easy path even if it is wrong or do what is right despite it being hard." Dailywire
| Certainty brings ruin[1] |
| According to Martin Kramer of the Washington Institute, "When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal." |
| He also tells us, the phrase to "know thy enemy" isn't in the Koran but it comes from the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu who said "Know thy enemy and know yourself..."[2] |
| But we are to love our enemy and this may be because if we hate him we may become like him. In fact in many situations we are the enemy.[3] |
| Even George Orwell wrote, “Man is the only real enemy we have." |
| So, if we are to know ourselves we cannot be the enemy of a truth, especially about ourselves |
| Is there something mankind does not want to see that we must be willing to face? Are we "... willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it"? [4] |
The measure of self or be ruined
Douglas Hedley in his introduction speaks of facing a cultural crises because of an ignorance of the foundation of our culture...4 min[6]
The phrase "Know thyself" is an Ancient Greek aphorism that means "know thy measure" and includes knowing thy culture which includes its history.
According to the Greek writer Pausanias, there were three three Delphic maxims inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: "Know thyself" are "Nothing to excess" and "Certainty brings ruin".
Knowing thyself, according to Jordan_Peterson can be "terrifying metaphysical idea" which he addresses near the end of episode one.
All cultures are not equal because they do not all produce an equal outcome. A bad culture can be the enemy of the people because it degenerates the members of society by encouraging corruption, Narcissism, and other anti social behaviors.[7]
What are the righteous practices taught by Moses and required by the LORD which may produce the social bonds which sets the captive free?
And, of course, what are the unrighteous practices which make the word of the LORD to none effect and produce the bands of bondage?
The pursuit of what has been called "the righteousness of God" through the voluntary practice of social virtues testified to in scriptures produces the social bonds which are necessary for a free and healthy society. Other practices will degenerate the masses and ruin the nation.[1]
Exodus, the revolutions
When Ian Oswald Guinness brings up revolutions since he was born in China and lived there during the beginning of its revolution. He had met Isaiah Berlin[8] who had also lived in Russia during its revolution. Os and Dr James Orr will both address the differences between the American and French revolutions that were born out of different cultures.
How common was slavery and what are the different types of slavery?
Egypt feared the Israelites who were already in bondage in Egypt since the days of Joseph.[9] Egypt sought to rigorously[10] increase their burdens and emasculate the the Israelite society by reducing males. During this first episode which mentions the midwives who "feared God more than Pharaoh" and Jonathan Pageau will see this reduction of male children as a sort of feminization of the Israelite community. Their efforts would produce a different effect.
Egyptian politic and economic systems sought to weaken[11] the Israelites so they cast out their children[12] was void of the wisdom of "nothing to excess".
If they truly wanted to weaken or to reduce Israel who were thriving more than Egyptians they should have increased the benefits of their welfare system that had been provided through the temples of Egypt since the fays of Joseph.[1]
Forced labor Corvee
At 21:27 minutes into this episode Ian Oswald Guinness will point out that Solomon was becoming a second Pharaoh with his institution of tribute through another corvee system.[13]
Israel was meant to be free and was never to return to the bondage of Egypt. Yet, Solomon was doing just that because the people chose to have a ruler back in 1 Samuel 8.
Israel had been told to write that limitation in their constitution by Moses in Deuteronomy 17.[14]
A corvee system is a system where a portion of your labor belongs to the State. Historically people have agreed to this statis in order to receive the protection and entitlements offered by the rulers of the State.
- "Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection."[15]
Endowed by a creator
Dr. James Orr points out the unique idea that man is endowed by a Creator with rights through His Natural law and then chooses to create governments and civil law systems.
Tyranny of choice
Dennis Prager says there was tyranny of the Pharaoh but the real threat is not the single tyrant but the spirit of tyranny living in the heart of everyman. To choose to be rullers over our neighbor breeds tyranny over all.
If we do not understand as we judge so we will be judged with in a cause and effect universe.
Is it all just a choice of the tyranny you choose or is there a "transcendence"?
- Transcendence exceeding or surpassing usual limits and may refer to the aspect of God's nature and a spiritual power which is wholly independent of the material universe, beyond all physical laws.
A true understanding of Exodus may reveal the nature of the transcendence which sets the captive free for those who will hear and become Doers of the Word.
The different symposia of Jordan Peterson over his study of Exodus fell short of this goal because the failed to see the transcendence originates in the micro first and only functions in the macro contrary to the biblical opinion of Dennis Prager.
Things forgotten
Stephen James Blackwood sees that we have lost[16] a sense of what has brought us and our institutions to this point and condition and he hopes to explore those origins.
- Ecclesiastes 9:16 "Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard."
Order out of chaos
Jonathan Pageau ponders how these stories as an artist. He quesrions how the symbolism these ancient stories could be intended to bring virtuous order out of chaos.
Two types of Hierarchies
11 minutes
Jordan Peterson describes God or god as what ever is at the hierarchy of our own mind. He sees that what you hold as most valuable to you become you God.
13 minutes begins to read the text of Exodus 1
Exodus 1:8 "Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph."
Prager points out the significance of this verse in our own time.
Does this panel or the modern American know what elements of society made "America Great"?
If we talk about Jewdeo-Christian values do we know what they should be?
Do we know our selves and that Jewdeo-Christian culture or have we forgotten things that should not have been forgotten?
16 minutes
Jordan Peterson thinks that Israelites were made slaves by the new Pharaoh but the truth was they had been slaves in a corvee system of bondage since when they first entered the bondage of Egypt back in Genesis.[9]
When the sons of Jacob through their brother into a pit and sold him into slavery they were doomed or destined to go into slavery. When they did not hear the anguish cries of their brother the set the scenario where God would not hear their cries.[17]
What was happening in Egypt at that time was that the terms of that bondage were changing through crafts of state and became more oppressive.[18]
How common was slavery and what type of slavery?
The bondage of Egypt was a system of Corvee that started out with owing twenty-percent of your labor to the government but became more oppressive with less benefits[9] which became more and more grievous.
Egypt wanted to reduce Israel who were thriving more than Egyptians. If they really wanted to destroy Israel they should have given them more benefits. [1]
At 20:45m Ian Oswald Guinnes mentions this corvee[9] was returning under Solomon which is why God divided Israel. All systems of Corvee are a return to the bondage of Egypt and almost always move people away from liberty through covetous practices which leads to the degeneration the Masses and usher in the rise of foolish tyrants.
21 min.
Dennis points out that ritual observance every day from the Passover until Pentecost (50 days) there was to be a reminding blessing against external and internal tyranny including our personsl lusts, etc.).
But there seems to be a blindness[19] which ignores the tyranny of neighbor over neighbor which the Ten Commandments does prohibit and should be self-evident in all forms of legal charity.
Certainly, we should not murder, steal, or bear false witness but the one element essential in a free society that appears invisible in the mind of modern man and the panel is "Thou shall not covet any thing that is thy neighbors."[20]
They speak of the post modernists ideologies that say "everything is tyranny" you just pick your own tyranny which of course is the ideology of the Derrida types and their propaganda of deconstructionism and preferred blindness[19] of the foolish.
Ian Oswald Guinnes points out that all power corrupts.
- "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" is an observation Lord Acton made in a letter to Bishop Creighton on April 5, 1887.
If "Power corrupts" then how is Paul justified in his statement with in Romans 13?
The truth is Moses was setting up a government with a division of power in the "micro" not in the "macro". It was not merely in three branches of government as we see in the Constitution but, in fact, Moses was recognizing that we were endowed by our creator with the power of Choice and that power needed to remain autonomous within each family.
Any centralization of power, i.e. power of choice, into the hands of a few would lead man back into bondage.[21]
All three branches of government must remain with what Jordan Peterson will call "the sovereign individual" in Episode 2.
Those individuals may form the forth branch of government.
Midwives Fear God
24 min Exodus 1:15 mentions eliminating the male children. That is a pattern of evil repeated through the stories of history.
What if you could just eliminating the male essence of society without killing them?
The midwives does not kill because of fear of God more than fear of the Pharaoh.
Psalms 111:10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.
But Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 9:10 "The fear(יִרְאַ֣ת yir’aṯ) of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding."
30 min Peterson mentions God as that phenomena where it is revealed to the individual that something is wrong or not right. That would be the tree of life or the Holy Spirit. If there is a God their must be core value and pattern to man.
Dr. Ian Oswald Guinness sees that if there is no God, no Divine designer, nor Divine Will then there is no truth and chaos will reign.
First civil disobedience and ethics
35: min when Dennis points out that God is ethics centered and not ethnics centered is when Dr. Ian Oswald Guinness brings up the "civil disobedience" concerning the midwives which suggest there must be a higher morality from a law prior to the civil law.
“The civil law is what a people establishes for itself." Bouvier's Law Dictionary.
- The laws men make for themselves are created by consent[22] through contracts and constitutions.[22]
37 minutes
Douglas Hedley quotes Proverbs 29:18 "Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he."
Was the vision of Moses for the government of Israel a Republic and what is the roll of the priests in this free nation?
Ezekiel 7:25 "Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there shall be] none. 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD."
Because of the idolatry of the people and priests the wrath or consequences come because as you judge so shall be judged. But what was the idolatry?[23]
50:min continues to read.
Moses is put in an ark upon the water. They see Moses in associated with water which Jordan points out many times but the Pharaoh id associated with stone.
Dennis suggest that water is the undoing of Moses when he strikes the rock to bring fourth water.
Many words in the biblical texts are metaphors for a deeper meaning. Water flows and is not fixed like stone.
Moses was judged for taking credit for what God did.
Status of Moses
Exodus 2 they cover Moses "is rescued by the daughter of Pharaoh" and adopted mother is called the "daughter of God" and the Mother of Moses. 55 minutes
Peterson discusses Moses is associated with water while the tyrant and Pharaoh is associated with stone.
There is a discussion of the significance of Moses in the ark and his connection with water and he is saved by the daughter of pharaoh who Dennis points out is called by Jewish traditions the "daughter of god".
What are these gods or gods many mentioned by Paul or who was called the Son of God?
The important ramifications of that status of Moses as the adopted son of the daughter of Pharoah is never fully addressed by the panel.
The status of Moses and the Moses#Hatshepsut daughter of Pharoah and why she was called the daughter of God, which is for a similar reason to the title of the Son of God and even why Israel called him Moses all plays into the understanding of the mission and purpose of Moses and his conflict with Pharaoh, which was the Christian conflict with Rome.
57 min
Ian Oswald Guinness points out that all the heroes are women by their compassion from the midwives, Moses' mother and the adoptive mother and daughter of Pharoah.
Peterson talks about the maternal instinct to protect those in true need in a way and manner that strengthens those in need which the system in Sodom failed to do. The idea of a woman as a rescuer of those in need is found perpetually throughout scripture but the means of that female provider is the difference between the methods of the Bride of Christ verses Nimrod, Sodom, and the Turtledove Goddess who managed the social safety net of Sumer.
101 minute
Peterson points out that Moses concern of killing the Egyptian was that Moses feared becoming the tyrant.
103 min
Dr James Orr mentions the Hammurabi Code and attempts to determine a moral standard but the methods used must be in righteousness. So, both the fraternal and maternal elements of governments must include a persute of the weightier matters in righteousness.
111 min
Ian Oswald Guinness suggests faith is "entrepreneurial". If the maternal elements of the social safety net of society used by Moses required faith because it was not a system of entitlements through compelled offerings rather than the freewill offerings of the LORD.
fraternal which
126 min
Praguer ask why did God take so long to save the jews in Egypt and what about Europe.
144 min
Jonathan Pageau speaks of God hearing the groans or cries of the people.
Were they crying for themselves or were they crying for the welfare of others?
There are numerous warning in the Bible that if people take a particular path or go certain ways and engage in certain unethical practices when they cry out God will not hear them because not hear the cries of your neighbor.[24]
terrifying idea
2:03:57 min
Jordan Peterson speaks about what he calls "A terrifying metaphysical idea". He ask "Why is there suffering in the world?" "Why is there malevolence in the world?... Maybe it is because we are not all we can be?"
He sees it as "incumbent upon each of us", repeating that he "really means each of us" which means in the "Micro" as opposed to in the "Macro" or "collective" "to "reveal everything that is within us" which he believe would happen as a "consequence of this voluntary ethical striving" that we could dispense with a great deal of the "hell" being manifest today.
Legal Charity deprives us of that " voluntary ethical striving" and therefore prevents us from doing that which is "necessary".
While fervent charity requires us to take back the responsibility to the care of our fellowman and the preservation of his rights as if they were our own.
Attempting to provide for ourselves as the total of singularity is disabling. But attempting to do for others will by nature reveal to us what is in or not in ourselves. In caring for others through personal sacrifice by its nature is an exercise in humility that if not done fervently reveals the inner man or woman. It reveals that we are not all that we should be.
He ponders the question how much better we would be if we were all "aiming up"?
At the very beginning of this episode Douglas Hedley had brokered the idea that we need to know thyself. What keeps us from knowing our selves more that apathy, complacency, and pride.
Social welfare schemes of men which should be hot topic in every study of Exodus or the Bible since that is a major theme a conflict within the text but it was decidedly absent in this panel's discussion.
The tables of the dainties of rulers from Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, and the free bread of Caesar that should have been for the welfare of the people were a snare and a trap[25] because they were the covetous practices which Peter said makes us merchandise and had made us possessions on the bondage of Egypt.
The welfare of the world are the entitlements of "certainty which brings ruin".[1]
What was the welfare scheme of Moses, Abraham and Jacob?
Poor in Spirit
2:12:23 min
The Poor in Spirit are those who are not proud and narcissistic and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others rather than use others for the benefit of himself. It is the difference between the practice of Pure Religion through fervent charity verses the covetous practices[23] of legal charity where we bite one another through men who exercise authority.[26]
Overcoming the tyrant
101 Jordan Peterson points out that the killing of the Egyptian was some how about "overcoming the tyrant within".
In fact, this idea of the need to "overcoming the tyrant within" is the entire theme of what Moses and God is trying to teach the people for it is the tyranny of man over man[27] that brought the Israelites into bondage of Egypt.
Dennis had said there was tyranny from Pharaoh but we need to be free from the tyranny of ourselves.
Jordan had spoke of the Jacques Derrida “deconstruction,” the new post modernist view that it all tyranny but you only choice is what tyranny you choose but asks is there a transcendence that is to say something beyond existence or experience or opinion including something beyond the normal or physical level of existence.
The question had been raised of the "the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the modern world".
Of course the Law of Nature, which is Divine will is both transcendent of our own tyranny but is the tyranny that gives us life and the right to choose.[21]
Barak Obama gave a speech in Holland where he said, "Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states. And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle -- through war and Enlightenment, repression and revolution -- that a particular set of ideals began to emerge: The belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose. The belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed, and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding. And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men -- and women -- are created equal. "
"And across the Atlantic, we embraced a shared vision of Europe -- a vision based on representative democracy, individual rights, and a belief that nations can meet the interests of their citizens through trade and open markets; a social safety net and respect for those of different faiths and backgrounds."
By 107 they are bringing up the idea of violence over throw of tyranny as an error.
unedited Notes
To have government by one individual (in an autocracy) to government by a minority (in an oligarchy, tyranny of the minority) to government by a majority (in a democracy, tyranny of the majority)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Destroyers of liberty
- "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:
- There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.
- We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
- ↑ The full quote is: "Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated."
- ↑ Pogo the 'possum reminded us, “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US.” From the poster designed by Walt Kelly to help promote environmental awareness and publicize the first annual observance of Earth Day, held on April 22, 1970. The quote is a play on the braggadocio comment of commodore Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812 in which he reported to William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie. May 19, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
- ↑ Patrick Henry
- ↑ 4:01 Teacher of a philosophy of religion and I think there's a crisis in our culture and the crisis is linked to a certain ignorance of the very backbone of our own culture and the Bible is very much at the core of our cultural heritage. At the Temple of Apollo in Delphi there was an inscription "know thyself" and we are in danger of not being able to know ourselves because of the ignorance of the very foundations of our culture.
- ↑ 4:01 Teacher of a philosophy of religion and I think there's a crisis in our culture and the crisis is linked to a certain ignorance of the very backbone of our own culture and the Bible is very much at the core of our cultural heritage. At the Temple of Apollo in Delphi there was an inscription "know thyself" and we are in danger of not being able to know ourselves because of the ignorance of the very foundations of our culture.
- ↑ Romans 1:26 "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
- ↑ Isaiah Berlin a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Fifth part
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
It should also be noted this was the beginning of the bondage of Egypt but in verse 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands."
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
- ↑ 06531 פֶרֶךְ perek [peh’-rek] PeiReishKaf from an unused root meaning to break apart; n m; [BDB-827b] [{See TWOT on 1817 @@ "1817a" }] AV-rigour 5, cruelty 1; 6
- 1) harshness, severity, cruelty
- Mesopotamian term for forced labor or a corvee.
- The first two letters of this term is פַר par 06499 young bull from the word פָרַר parar 06565 to break, frustrate, make none effect.
- פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
- ↑ Exodus 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- ↑ Acts 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
- ↑
Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau: talk about what "could be your own inner tyranny and it could be someone else's instrumental will or some State's instrumental will and that is portrayed as fundamentally inappropriate in this text... like this idea of wanting to be higher than God or wanting to replace God..."
Os: "I don't know Dennis would agree with this but I know some rabbis believe that Israel was judged when they were divided because Solomon was becoming almost a second pharaoh with a corvee' of the people in forced labor and so on. An he was bringing a kind of slavery in at the end and getting too much. Israel's called to be in anti-Egypt..."
22:03 Dennis: "For your interest ... there are two tyrannies. This is the overriding theme, I believe, of the whole Torah; external tyranny to pharaohs, internal tyranny to your lusts, etc. to yourself... you can't have freedom from Pharaoh if you don't have freedom from you." - ↑ Deuteronomy 17:14-20 "16 ... nor cause the people to return to Egypt, ... Ye shall henceforth return no more that way."
- ↑ Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio protectionem. Coke, Littl. 65."
- ↑ "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth." Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
- ↑ Genesis 42:21 "And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required."
- ↑ Exodus 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 False prophets and Guru theories
- Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."
- Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."
- Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."
- Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
- Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
- John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
- Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."
- Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
- ↑ Covet not
- Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Deuteronomy 5:21 "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Micah 2:2 "And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." Property and inheritance tax.
- Habakkuk 2:9 "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul."
- Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."
- Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- 2 Timothy 3:2 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- 2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
- 2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Make no covenant
- Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee..."
- Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 13 But ye shall destroy(TavTavTzadikVavNun tittōṣūn, תִּתֹּצ֔וּן) their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;"
- Deuteronomy 7:2 "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:"
- Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."
- Deuteronomy 7:24 "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them."
- Numbers 25:2 "And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods."
- Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"
- 1 Kings 9:22 "But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen." see 1 Samuel 8
- Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
- Obadiah 1:7 "All the men of thy confederacy<01285> have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him."
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 "And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ Hear and see
- Genesis 42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
- Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
- 1 Samuel 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
- Judges 10:14 "Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
- Ezekiel 12:2 "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they [are] a rebellious house."
- Proverbs 20:12 ¶ "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them."
- Isaiah 1:15 "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
- Isaiah 6:9 ¶ "And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
- Isaiah 59:2 "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear."
- Isaiah 65:12 "Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I delighted not."
- Matthew 13:11 "He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
- Jeremiah 25:4 "And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: 6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them..."
- Matthew 10:14 "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet."
- Mark 6:11 "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city."
- John 8:43 "Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word."
- John 12:38 "That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."
- Acts 28:26 "Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
- Romans 11:7 "What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded 8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."
- 2 Corinthians 3:15 "But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart."
- Ephesians 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
- 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. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"
- ↑ Table as a snare
- Psalms 69:22-23 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."”
- Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
- Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."
- Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."
- Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:"
- Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."
- Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league [covenant] with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"
- Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
- Proverbs 6:2 “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Swear not
- Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
- 1 Timothy 6:9 "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
- "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21 is about the message of John the Baptist who was "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God" Isaiah 40:3 to avoid the "snare" of the legal charity of the welfare state which which makes the word of God to none effect bringing man back into captivity as human resources.
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑ Genesis 42:21 And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.