THE LURE OF LOOK-ALIKE DOCTRINE

CONTINUITY NOTE:
The present sentence started at the beginning or Proverbs 2 with:
‘My son if thou wilt receive my words . . .’
‘Then shalt thou understand the . . .’
‘For the Lord giveth wisdom . . . ‘
‘To deliver then from the evil man . . .’
To deliver thee from the strange woman . . .’

Proverbs 2:18-19 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. (19) None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Let us hereby stand warned. The ‘strange woman’ always has the latest of lures to attract God’s children into her bosom. Like those used against Eve in the Garden of Eden, these lures are imbedded in the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. The reason they are lures is because the enemy is a professional fisherman. As he who uses look-alike shiny fish to lure its prey out of the water, so the enemy uses look-alike shiny doctrine to lure God’s children out of the pure waters of the Word.

The only way to make the difference between look-alike and true doctrine is to do just like the apostles did: to judge it by the never-changing Word of God in a concept consistent with both Testaments of the Bible.

This warning given to us here in this statement is very serious. The ‘death’ referred to as the inclination of the house of the ‘strange woman’ is actually the Hebrew word ‘rapha’, relating to Hades the invisible world. Just as one who swims in a cesspool would have to undergo serious cleansing and purifying in order to be clean again, we cannot return from the house of the strange woman’ without death to self and regeneration. There is no reformation from it.

The enemy wants confuse us. He has dirtied the waters of God’s Word with man’s philosophy and vain teachings.. It behooves us to now be serious about our studying of the Word. We need to do it by the sole inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This is the only way to make sure that we are not lured into the house of the ‘strange woman’, and to our death.