1:
Children if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments 2: So
that you incline your ear to wisdom apply your heart to understanding 3:
Yes if you cry after knowledge lift up your voice for understanding 4:
If you seek her as silver and search for her as hidden treasures 5: Then
shall you understand the fear of YHWH and find the knowledge of Elohiym
6: For YHWH gives wisdom Out of his mouth knowledge and understanding 7:
He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous a shield to them that walk uprightly 8:
He guards the paths of judgment and preserves the way of his saints 9:
Then shall you understand righteousness and judgment and equity every good path
10: When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your
soul 11: A [carefully thought out] plan shall preserve you Discernment
[both spiritual and fact-based intelligence] shall guard and protect you 12:
To deliver you from the way of [the] evil [man] from 'iysh who speaks [tortuously and]
perversely 3: Who leaves the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of
darkness 14: Who rejoices to do evil and delights in the perverseness of
the wicked 15: Whose paths are crooked and perverted in their ways 16:
To deliver you from the strange woman The woman estranged from God
even from the stranger who flatters with her words 7: Who forsakes the friends
of her youth and forgets the covenant of Elohiym 18: For her house
inclines to death and her paths [lead] to the dead 19: None that go to
her return again neither take they hold of the paths of life 20: That you
may walk in the way of the good and guard [be guarded by] the paths of the
righteous 21: For the upright shall dwell in the [promised] land Psalm
37:2 kjv and the perfect [those with godly integrity] shall remain[1] 22:
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth Psalm 37:1-2 and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it[2]
[1] This is both a promise for God’s chosen
people, the Jewish people (physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob),
and a prophecy for those who are the Children of the promise--Christians. The
Children of Israel (Christians are never called the Children of Israel or “Jacob”),
lived in the promise land, chosen for them by God and promised to the
descendants of their father, Abraham, who walked the length and breadth of it
without ever realizing the inheritance of it during his lifetime. The Israelite's were promised that if they loved and served God, their land would be
blessed, and they would never be forcibly taken from it and forced to relocate
as a conquered people. Prophecy predicted, and history recorded, that the Jewish
people did not believe God, and were finally taken permanently from the land of
promise. “Jacob” lived for centuries (until 1948), as a people without a
country, while other countries occupied the promise land, and divided and
re-divided it up among themselves. That still goes on in the world stage,
today, as the Nations bicker about who owns Jerusalem, and where the capital of
Israel should be. Prophecy predicts that God still has plans to fulfill his promised
land covenant with the physical descendants of Abraham, but he also has a promise
land for all who love and serve him (whether
Jew or Gentile) that consists of a life and a future, prepared especially for
them. But, just as the promised land did not come without heroic effort and
faith on the part of God’s people, along with strong opposition from the enemy,
neither does our promised land come without the same. The Bible is full of
great and precious promises, but does not sugar-coat the price at which they
came (through the horrific sacrifice of our Savior) or the struggle that may be
involved in laying claim to them. Jesus said, “In this world you have
tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world.”
[2] This is a prophecy of the first 1000
years of Christ’s Kingdom and the final rebellion and fiery purge, (that
follows it) which will finally rid the earth of all oppose the rule of Christ Isaiah
9:7, Revelation 20:1-3 & 7-10, 2 Peter 3:7-13
Do you have the assurance of knowing that if you died
today, you have Eternal Life?
When we understand God's great Redemption, Bible prophecy is neither complicated nor mysterious
Additional commentary pending for this
chapter
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