Bible Discussion Thread

Ju.9:9-15 "Devour the cedars of Lebanon"

Here we have a fable in its classical tradition where life experience of the natural world prepares us to draw our own conclusions. The Spirit in order to instruct us in righteousness ties the narrative mode to the triune God so we have the brambles metaphorically set for body of a carnal man. As against this a child of God whose body spirit and soul shall represent vine, olive tree and fig tree respectively.

Brambles are the least qualified to preside over the weal of any commonwealth for a happy conclusion. Workers of the world unite! I shall lead you as one" Comrade Bramble harangues but woe to anyone who draws near! He shall draw blood indeed. We all have seen how Stalin set the stage for early demise of the Soviet union! What is eighty years in the history of nations? Or for that matter 13 years of the Third Reich? A blip, leaving in its wake not a single feature of goodness that man may use to profit. No, nothing but poison of its tangled ideology. When the Spirit sets trees in figurative sense it is implied that by Law of Gradation whoever draws from this philosophy are of one kind. It is what this verse instructs us, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.(Ge.1:11). Thus Neo-Nazism and its variants are after its kind. The beast of the latter days in the vision of John is another example, In the end he and his cohorts shall be thrown into lake of fire(Re.20:10).

"Thus saith theLord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from theLord(Je.17:5-8). Bramble personifies man and his pride. Ideologies are offspring of human intellect and brambles represent any that runs contrary to the divine Will. Thus what worth is 'the end justifies the means'? Nothing but misery.