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Knife to thy throat
We should never eat at the table of rulers who exercise authority one over the other because it requires that we covet our neighbors' goods which is one of those deeds of the Nicolaitan and the error of Balaam that God hates and Jesus told us to not be that way.
From the earliest times the power and possession of tyrants have enticed the people with gifts and gratuities. Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh and Herod. Historians like Polybius, philosophers like Plutarch, all the prophets and Apostles have been issuing their warnings the people of coveting their benefits of rulers.
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| 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.[1] |
| 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. |
| 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. |
| 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: |
| 7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.[2] |
| 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. |
| 9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words but the fool will not hear. |
| 10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:[3] |
Both David and Paul warned[4] us that those tables, which were welfare systems of legal charity like the Corban of the Pharisees are a snare because, as Peter said such covetous practices makes the people merchandise and will curse children.
Having a desire for the dainties, benefits, and welfare of these rulers who call themselves benefactors is having an appetite for what the Bible calls the wages of unrighteousness.
The modern Church tells the people in their own wisdom[5] that is okay to desire that welfare provided by the unrighteous mammon but Jesus said it is not to be that way with us.
Verse 6 of Proverbs 23 tells us not to eat the bread nor even desire those benefits that are sweat in the mouth but sour in the belly of those who covet their neighbor's goods through deceit. That sourness will cause us to vomit it up.
We should not listen to the modern Church and its false religion nor eat the feast[6] provided by those covetous practices. People today have need of the "baptism of repentance" if they desire the "remission of sin".
It was the freewill offerings and the charity of Israel, the early Church and America in the beginning which made the people strong, not the legal charity of socialism.
- ↑ These "deceitful meats" provide at the tables of rulers are a metaphor for the welfare that was a snare spoken of in the Bible by David and Paul. The gifts, gratuities and benefits we were warned about by Plutarch who said that benefaction from rulers would ruin the people and destroy liberty.
- ↑ These dainties are Instrumentum regni of rulers.
- ↑ The Fatherless are those who make the state their Fathers and Christ did warn us of the same concerning the Fathers of the earth.
- ↑ Psalms 69:22 "Let their table <07979> become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap."
- Romans 11:9 "And David saith, Let their table<5132> be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:"
- ↑ Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
- Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.
- Isaiah 5:21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
- ↑ Amos 5:21, Amos 8:10, Nahum 1:15.