Explanations / One Lot, One Portion#
A very important concept in all scripture is the concept of oneness. This is a continuance of our 666, Counted, Weighed, Divided study.
1 Corinthians 6:15–16
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
The book of Proverbs gives a variety of sayings concerning what seems like a whole variety of people, but really it is talking about just a few.
Let us focus on
- The Evil Man (The beast)
- The Strange Woman (The harlot)
The Evil Man (Beast)#
Revelation 13:16-17
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
This relationship is forshadowed in Proverbs:
Proverbs 1:10-19
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
The very important passage is here:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse
And here:
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Because although it seems its talking about lurking murderers, the statement is this:
“A greedy lover of gain will become guilty with murderers.”
And that is shown here:
Proverbs 24:11-12
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his works?
When society turns against the righteous, many will not physically oppose them, yet will become partakers in the evil by sharing in the wealth gained through their persecution—or, more properly, in the rewards of iniquity.
The evil man is shown further in a subtle way later in proverbs:
Proverbs 23:1-35
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
The entire passage above seems to move arbitrarily between subjects, but there is a flow relevant to the events of the end times—and an important nuance that must be addressed.
The “dainty meats” spoken of are not actual physical food, but evil doctrines and deceptions intended to produce gain by victimizing the simple and helpless. That is why, in regard to the food, it states that you will “vomit up” what you have consumed and lose your sweet words. The thing consumed was not actual food, but evil understanding.
Also, how do we connect the evil man with the beast? Minding context, the scriptures always expound:
Psalms 49:20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
The Strange Woman (Harlot)#
After giving further instruction, the passage shifts the image from an evil ruler to a whore:
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
This plainly identifies the whore as the Kingdom of Hell, understanding that the Harlot of Revelation is the antitype of the Bride of Christ, which is the kingdom of Heaven.
(Many people debate “who is the harlot?” but it is the Kingdom of Hell that rules over the wicked, who in turn rules this present world. Compare Ephesians 6:12, and Luke 4:6)
Proverbs 9:13-18
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Thus, in a different metaphor, she is united with those who go after other gods–the High Places–and preys upon people to destroy them. This somewhat intersects her identity with that of the beast, with whom she becomes one flesh through fornication.
As the woman who sits upon many waters in Revelation, she is understood to have stolen God’s people through seduction and devoured them as bread.
Psalm 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
The Whore and Azazel: One Lot, ALL SIN#
Most people do not accept the book of Enoch. Although vitally important, I include it last for those who do.
1 Enoch 6:1-6
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied, that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
And the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.”
And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.”
*And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan, but to do this thing.”
Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
And they were in all two hundred, who descended in the days of Jared upon the summit of Mount Hermon; and they called it Mount Hermon because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
This shows the first of the angels to corrupt humanity bound themselves into one group with one oath, so that they would all receive the punishment for their sins as one.
Later it is said:
1 Enoch 10:7-8
And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons.
And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe ALL SIN.
And connecting this to what is known in Revelation:
Revelation 18:23-24
For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Conclusion#
Sin and its associated harlotry have been engineered to capture the human race–both as one body, and individually, one person at a time. That is why the systems of “one lot” and “one flesh” matter so greatly in the separation of good from evil: the faithful become one with God, while the rebellious become one with the Devil.
The interesting thing about the work of the fallen angels:
They bound themselves to the doom of humanity that they themselves had sown through marrying the daughters of men. And later, the righteous were bound to the eternity of God through a oneness arrangement like marriage.
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