Apostates...
If you
wish to save your soul, you do not wish to become one.
What is an Apostate?
As a noun: a
disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or
political party or friend.
As an adjective: not
faithful to religion or party or
cause.
Synonym: deserter, recreant, renegade,
backslider, turncoat.
Holy Scripture has many verses which mention
apostates, sometimes using other words such as rebellious or uncontrolled, but
with the same meaning.
Here is a very good
example:
Isaiah 30:1, "Woe to you, apostate
children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would
begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:" Douay
(DR)
Elucidation:
1. Throughout Holy Scripture dire
consequences will be bestowed upon those to whom GOD addressed with the phrase "Woe
to you".
2. GOD said, "that you would take counsel, and not of me:" Those
same persons listen to mere human creatures and not to the word of GOD
Himself.
3. GOD added, "and would begin a web". What does that mean to
you?
Well a web reminds me of a spiders web, and
a spiders web is essentially a trap for the unwary, is it
not?
Some other bibles use the words
'alliance', 'league', 'covenant', 'treaty', or 'agreement', instead of
'web'.
The Latin Vulgate, the official bible of the
Catholic Church for over a thousand years, uses the word 'telam' which
translates to 'web'.
4. GOD then added, "and not by my spirit".
Whoa! Apostates are not guided by the Holy
Spirit.
5. GOD finished the verse with, "that you might add sin upon sin:"
That sounds like a dire warning of a gloomy ending for the apostate does it
not?
6. That verse of Isaiah is so simple and yet so clear. How could anyone
misinterpret it?
What about those who fail to pass this little one verse
Psalms test?
Psalms 127:1, "Unless the LORD builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the
watchman stays awake in vain."
Elucidation:
1. How
many houses does the Lord have? He has but one. Notice that He said
'house' and not
'houses'.
Matthew 16:18,
"Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church..."
Jesus did say 'church' (singular) and not
'churches' (multiple) didn't He?
2. "Those who build it
labor in vain", means what?
Those who build it are not GOD
but mere human
creatures.
Consequently, since GOD did not build the
house, how then can it be called the house of GOD?
"The simple fact of the matter is, that it
is not possible to put together any selection of words
in which some
ingenious person may not find a meaning not meant by the writer of the
verse."
Frank Sheed.
"Only a public authority, divinely guided,
can
spell out without error, a public message divinely revealed."
Fr. Pere
Benoit...
©
Written by Bob Stanley, March 4,
2010
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