Your Papers Please Part 2
by Pastor Mark Downey
Today’s Scripture reading was Proverbs 4:14-23 and apparently Esau-Edom partakes of a communion of sorts, “Eating the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence” (v.17). I’m reminded of John’s vision in Rev. 17:6, “And I saw the woman [Mystery Babylon] drunken with the blood of the saints and… the martyrs of Jesus.” What they commune with is the Babylonian Talmud and hang on every word that proceeds from the mouth of their vile rabbis. A rabbi is a jew who is proficient in twisting and convoluting the intent of God’s Word. Evidently, those who enter the path of Talmudic wickedness can’t sleep until they’ve done some mischief and cause people to fall and stumble (v.16).
The current events of this past week are more confirmation of the dialectics of a created solution to satisfy a created problem, which produces the desired result. What is that result? A stumblingblock to perceive reality.