“He shall wound the heads over many countries.”(v.6)
This is precisely what is happening about us. Nations are yet to get a grip on the manner conspiracy theories have thrown a monkey wrench over their works. There are news reports of that human brain is shrinking at a faster rate and with change in life styles, -ultra-processed foods and recreational drugs dementia is everywhere. Apart from nature taking a toll what of moral havoc sown by his attitudes to truth? Alternate reality spun by man in his bubble has a way of splintering his society. Jotham’s fable is more likely to play out our very eyes. “Let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. ” (Ju.9:15). We shall come to that while we discuss the next verse.
One way God has shown his wrath is in the epistle to the church of the Thessalonians. “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:”(2 The.2:11). How does Satan work? He has a way of working with those who are lackadaisical toward truth. Loving God ‘with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” (De.6:4) Ever studying and yet not coming to truth is a sure sign. What imposter church has taught to take the Bible with a pinch of salt becomes a stony heart. Deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, is to interpret literally so textual criticism calls for historical context and many distractions besides. The seed sown in their heart is like seed sown by the wayside. “the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:/ Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”(Matt.13:45-46). Comparing spiritual with spiritual needs grace, -and patience and humility which have been given a short shrift in a society where style over substance is favoured. In short Satan has scored a hit because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
“The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.”
These kings are labeled the heathen, “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?/ The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed,”(Ps.2:1-2) “He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.”(v.6)
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
This evokes the test God gave Gideon and it is confirmed by the clue the Spirit has consistently followed. “Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink./And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men.”(Ju.7:5-6) The Command number Three refers to the Son. (3×100) attests it. In the case of man 3×10 applies to the service “And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age” (Luke 3:23) when he began his ministry.
“he shall wound the heads over many countries.“
Another interesting parallel we have in the life of Gideon in the manner his illegitimate son Abimelech was killed “And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.”(Ju.9:53) Speed forward we find the angel similarly throwing a stone ‘like a great millstone’ to finish off Babylon, the generic name for the nations in the outer darkness. (Re.18:21)
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