Proverbs 18:11 KJV
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
This proverb works in contrast with the preceding one thus we have the following statement: The Name of Adonai is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
When God wanted to destroy Israel His people because of the sin of the golden calf, Moses relied on God’s Name for mercy. God’s Name is defined by His merciful and compassionate nature and character as read in Exodus 34:5-7:
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
This passage is commonly referred to as the Thirteen Attributes of God. Later, when God is again wroth against his people, Moses reminds God of these attributes and thus again averts catastrophe. As we see, the Name of Adonai is certainly a strong tower of mercy and compassion where the righteous can run into The ‘righteous’ spoken of here is Moses pleading and interceding for his people, and upon whose merits God repented from the evil He wanted to do to Israel. What a marvelous foreshadow picture of the Messiah Himself upon whose merit and Name we obtain mercy.
By contrast, a man who is rich not of God’s Name, but of his own natural doings, sees his personal wealth and abilities as his refuge. He trusts in his own personal merit to protect him from the wrath to come upon the entire world. What a sad sight!
No matter how far we have gone, let us trust in The Righteous, the Son of God Himself Who ever lives to make intercession for us.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
This proverb works in contrast with the preceding one thus we have the following statement: The Name of Adonai is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
When God wanted to destroy Israel His people because of the sin of the golden calf, Moses relied on God’s Name for mercy. God’s Name is defined by His merciful and compassionate nature and character as read in Exodus 34:5-7:
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
This passage is commonly referred to as the Thirteen Attributes of God. Later, when God is again wroth against his people, Moses reminds God of these attributes and thus again averts catastrophe. As we see, the Name of Adonai is certainly a strong tower of mercy and compassion where the righteous can run into The ‘righteous’ spoken of here is Moses pleading and interceding for his people, and upon whose merits God repented from the evil He wanted to do to Israel. What a marvelous foreshadow picture of the Messiah Himself upon whose merit and Name we obtain mercy.
By contrast, a man who is rich not of God’s Name, but of his own natural doings, sees his personal wealth and abilities as his refuge. He trusts in his own personal merit to protect him from the wrath to come upon the entire world. What a sad sight!
No matter how far we have gone, let us trust in The Righteous, the Son of God Himself Who ever lives to make intercession for us.
Hebrews 7:25.
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