Foaming out their shame
11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.
It is as though all the negative examples throughout history are all on display today. Cain killed his brother out of jealousy. For what? Because his business selling sheep and wool was outperforming Cain’s business selling vegetables and fruit? Greed, envy, jealousy, hatred all expressed by Cain. Balaam is more subtle. A professional prophet, a prophet for hire. Like the “fake news” agencies. We don’t have to shoot you, slander your business and we can kill you that way. We can’t be obvious, we hire someone known to be faithful to tell us God’s word and let him show us how to do it. The cigarette companies hired a PR firm that pushed the idea that “we don’t know” that cigarettes are addictive. It was a lie and when it got exposed they all went down the tubes. The NFL hired the same firm to teach them to say we don’t know that football causes brain injuries. And now we see those caught up in Korah’s rebellion, trying to rebel against God’s law, against His word, against the church His representative on the earth. Today the churches are the embassies of the kingdom of the heavens. But in country after country they violate the sovereignty of that embassy. It will provoke sudden destruction from the Lord.
12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
You don’t just see them as leaders of corporations, PR firms, and governments. They have also infected the church. Shepherds who only feed themselves with their “prosperity gospel”. Clouds without rain, that is a politician who gets elected on a platform of lies. Biden promised to forgive college loans, that was an empty promise. Harris promised to do away with the human rights abuses at the border, an empty promise. They are blown by the wind, whatever the radical left wants they do. It seems nothing is too radical for them. Biden looks like an autumn tree, a tree who has lost all its leaves. What are his “roots”? He doesn’t have any, there is nothing that he stands for, nothing that you can say that is what he cares about. Omar going on and on about how the US is a terrorist nation, she is wild waves of the sea foaming out her shame.
1
