The Folly of Angels

Post 264

“Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?” Job 4:18-19.

The passage continues on relative to the clay, but we will not cover that for a few more posts. Here we note that for some reason God charged his angels with folly. So what is folly that the angels themselves should be so charged? The scriptures tell us by several examples such as in the law of first mention:

“And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he (Shechem) had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done” Genesis 34:7.

But of course this was not an angel that had violated Dinah so how do I project this onto the folly of angels? I do it by discovering the Type that the entire story plays out, and why it is entered into the scripture at all.
Though it is longer than I would like to draw out in this post, the events of the story needs to be grasped. Please read it as the specific Type of our Genesis 6:2 topic:
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The Victim Dinah:

“And Dinah (1783) the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land” Genesis 34:1.

Dinah 1783 Diynah; feminine of 1779; justice; Dinah, the daughter of Jacob:-- Dinah.
1779 diyn or duwn; from 1777; judgment (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife:-- cause, judgment, plea, strife.

We see no obvious sin in her action, but Dinah; as the embodiment of the application of God’s Justice, went to consider these Pagan women that by familiarity of curiosity placed Dinah where she shouldn’t be; i.e. in the wicked proximity (“neighborhood”) of her defiler;(meaning the ability to apply Justice being defiled by the overpowering involvement of the ungodly), which is the example of nearly every original college in America, such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (*1) as they became corrupted by later introducing godless goals.

“And when Shechem (7927) the son of Hamor (2544) the Hivite (2340), prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her” Genesis 34:2.
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Rabbit Trail Pedigree:

Shechem 7927 Shkem; the same as 7926; ridge; Shekem, a place in Palestine:-- Shechem.

7927 is the 7926 name of a Palestinian ridge. But note; the meaning of that name is importantly not sourced from the ridge; the name of the ridge is sourced from the man with that name:

7926 shkem; from 7925; the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of a hill:-- back, X consent, portion, shoulder.

This is a very good description of reason to be proud of a stiff neck… if packing a heavy load is what you want to be proud of, as opposed to Christ’s recommendation for a man (see Matthew 11:28-30 vs. Exodus 32:9-10). But a great theft and subversive perversion of Christ’s roll in carrying your heavy load is what this is man is all about: Antichrist.

7925 shakam; a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from 7926; literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning:-- (arise, be up, get [oneself] up, rise up) early (betimes), morning.

Denominative: adjective 1. Conferring a denomination, or name. 2. Grammatical Derived from a substantive or an adjective.
Denominate: Having a specific name or denomination; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quality, while 7 is a mere abstract quantity or number. -- To give a name to; to entitle; name; call. - Webster’s 1948

What we learned first is that this man was Palestinian. “Palestine” is a Jesus era Roman designation of slander, not quite wrongly transcribed from “land of the Hebrews which once was the Philistine’s,” which more accurately means in this ancient application: Canaan under rule of Israel. The word Palestine still fits the application today, on many levels!
And next, that he was really something special in order to have a ridge named after his great ability to bear on his neck a noteworthy burden that is normally put onto many others. A prophetic Type of Anti-christ.
Then we see he was determined to do this early in the morning twilight (5399).

“What real meaning could any of this seemingly insignificant history possibly have?”

We have already seen only a few of the scriptures that point out the fact that Canaanites: i.e. Philistines and Giants, lived intermixed; and although not all Canaanites were Giants they were nonetheless all of great stature (Numbers 13:32+33). So contemplating this, let’s investigate his pedigree that the scriptures so conveniently provide here; Shechem's father:

Hamor 2544 Chamowr; the same as 2543; ass; Chamor, a Canaanite:-- Hamor.

While the inferred slam is perhaps a chiding pun, we are here told Shechem’s father was a Canaanite; the Numbers 13:29 people that lived by the sea as well as the border of Jordan, whom God specifically said to kill off and possess their land for reasons of utter corruption, which we have already discussed (Genesis 15:16+ Deuteronomy 9:5-6). But there is yet more detail in this man’s name:

2543 chamowr; or (shortened) chamor; from 2560; a male ass (from its dun red):-- (he) ass.

But lest you immediately stay with the derogatory inference and so miss the point;

2560 chamar; a primitive root; properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); as denominative (from 2564) to smear with pitch:-- daub, befoul, be red, trouble.
2564 chemar; from 2560; bitumen (as rising to the surface):-- slime(-pit).

Wow there is a mouthful in that name!
What we see in all this, is a Canaanite man so full of stubborn rage of gall from the miry slime-pit of hell, that the blood so constantly flushed his face red that he was named after the dun red color of an ass; a stubborn beast of burden! This father of Shechem was someone you really didn’t want to mess with! (Proverbs 22:24-25).
Who is the “red son” but Esau?; named for his red color (Genesis 25:25) and declared to be the perpetual hater of his brother, God’s people (Genesis 25:22-23, Ezekiel 35:2-5, *2), and likewise hated of God in return (Romans 9:13), and unable to find repentance after selling his God-given birthright position (Genesis 25:32-34+Hebrews 12:16) as like the angels.
Are you seeing the direct connection here?
Hamor is a Type of the fallen angel(s) who left his/their first estate as did Lucifer and Esau, and Shechem is the offspring Mighty Man/men (Genesis 6:4) that bore his unusual burden of humanity in the morning twilight, comparatively describing his Type of the Morning Stars (Job 38:7, Amos 5:8), and finally contrasted in Revelation:

“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” Revelation 2:26-29.

These next few posts have been delayed because of several significant topics so completely intertwined; we will discuss the iron rule and the pottery in other posts, but who is this morning star and what are the faithful keeper of works supposed to do with a morning star?
Because of Revelation 22:16 (the last few verses in the last book of the entire Bible describing the last events of prophecy that scripture records) we know the Morning Star is Jesus Christ himself;

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star” Revelation 22:16.

But why does Jesus there go into the whole pedigree bit about being both the root of David as well as his offspring?, which is something important that Jesus stumped the unfaithful religious Jews over in Matthew 22:45+1:20.
Yes, Jesus is THE Morning Star that rises at the end, but he is not the early morning star rising in the twilight hours between night and day, which he himself is describing in the earlier prophecy of Revelation 2:29. THAT morning star is an imposter trying to jump the gun and gain the advantage over the morning star that comes later.
Nor is Jesus the morning star in the plural; those are the Job 38:7, Amos 5:8, Genesis 3:15 seed of angels, who attempt to subvert his place by the same early morning arrival of taking on the burden of flesh and becoming gods on the earth (plural mighty-men, coming first/singular Antichrist, coming second, all the seed of the morning star dragon of Revelation 12:3-4.

This (*2) Ideomean son of Esau, Hamor, a Canaanite, the father of Shechem a mighty man Philistine, was a Hivite and the prince of the country; the Type of Satan the Goat in the occultic sense (Daniel 8:25). So what is a Hivite?

Hivite 2340 chivviy; perhaps from 2233; a villager; a Chivvite, one of the aboriginal tribes of Palestine:-- Hivite.

It’s a bit of a rabbit trail through roots of meanings to get there but the result is:

2332 chavvah; causatively from 2331; life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman:-- Eve.

And now we are back to the women of the land, which, when Justice Dinah, (a virgin of God’s people), went to get to know, she implemented their alluring "beauty products" and in so doing drew the attention of, and was violated by, the Mighty-Man son of the prince of the country, who saw her captivating innocence wrapped in the easy virtue garments of lustful beauty. These chavvah women are the Type of earth-born daughters of “Mother Earth”, who in iniquity as Pagans assume the place of Eve; the God-given mother of mankind, in the effort to bring about a new race of humanity; the Mighty Men (expounded in a later post). These chavvah are the Type mothers/people of the Hivite child Shechem; the Type of the hybrid children of the Sons of God; i.e. children of fallen angels, but even more directly, the mothers of the Type of the singular hybrid child of Satan - Antichrist.
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Back to Dinah:

Now that we know who these Types are, the verse told us that this Shechem; saw Dinah among the daughters of the land, and took her, and lay with her, defiling her. Obviously we get the impression that she was forcefully raped, as she was (I will show further evidence of this in following posts), but now continue reading:

“and his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife” Genesis 34:3-4.

Well now, this is an unexpected turn of events; Typically when a woman is raped she is further despised not loved (II Samuel 13:15), so what happened?
Well as far as I know we are not directly told, but there is a well-known surprising nature of men to be deeply attached beyond expectation to the first woman he lies with carnally. I’m going to go out on a limb here because he is the Type of the seed of angels, and so I suggest that Shechem was a virgin, as we know by God’s unique notation (Genesis 6:2) and punishment (Jude 1:6), that the angels were when they took their wives. This resulting genuine love of the rapist is important as we contemplate the actions, reactions, feeling, motives, and results, of the events that follow the rape but led up to the destruction of the Flood, and is again about to play out in our very real lives in the here-and-now reenactment.
We see in Genesis 6:2 and 4 that these unwilling women became the wives of their rapists as well as mothers to their sons and we must conclude by the nature of sex slaves that these women eventually grew a confused attachment to their captor husbands, much as is exampled by the confusing and hateful uncontrollable draw to an addiction that you know will destroy you.
Today, would-be rescuers of sex slave prostitutes find the girls actually resist their rescuers with great resistance. So are they willing participants of their situation? Hardly, but yes. This is the Type of the coming culture on the world today.
It pains me greatly that the concept that I am trying to present is so huge that it takes many posts to cover enough just to really grasp its significance, so for now, by later reading the actions of the Hebrews in this story of Dinah, just contemplate what this love of the rapist might mean in how we as a nation, and as a globe, should respond, as opposed to how we are presently programmed to respond, especially remembering to consider God’s flood judgment for defiling Lady Justice (Isaiah 5:20-23+Psalm 11:2-3). Enough for now, let’s move on:

“And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come” Genesis 34:5.

As just a historical narration we presume that Jacob was incapable of taking solitary action against the Hivite people and so he waited till his boys came home before confronting the defiler of his daughter. But considering the Type it represents, we see that Jacob plays the roll of God the Father, of his daughter playing the roll of humanity, and so we note that Jacob’s sons in the field with the cattle must be God’s angels preoccupied with their rightful industry elsewhere (Daniel 10), while God is in heaven aware of the turn of events but waiting for the right time to avenge (Romans 12:19, Ezekiel 25:14). And so he waits, with the illusion that he will not judge the folly done against those, who by living it out, are his Dinah Justice defiled. (Psalm 73:1-14 note verse 10 describe Israel returned back to their land yet remain greatly troubled by the wicked).
We see in the Genesis 6 narrative of this story Typed, that God declared his wrath and vengeance in verses 7, 13 and 17, but delayed action, presumably until Noah could get his boat ready for the event (v.14) as a Type of Jacob's boys coming home from their labor. Of course we know the Ark is the Type of the Rapture of the faithful, and his second coming for the Jews to be gathered (Matthew 24:31), therefore by Type we have a glimpse into the reason why the second Global Destruction by fire does not occur until some time after this demonic rape of humanity; God is waiting for his “sons” to finish their work and come home to implement the wrath (Exodus 22:21-24, Nahum 1:2) as we saw visually by the attack of the townsmen led by Gaston in “Beauty and the Beast” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/06/beauty-and-beast_12.html).

Now while the Dinah passage continues on in describing the events of the last day’s battle against the wicked people, right now we are still exploring the meaning of Folly, which the Angels were charged with. I tie this event to the actions of the Angels as they are the same sin, both called folly, and the Types in detail describe them perfectly.
Suddenly, when you really understand the significance of the events of the unseen realm, you begin to question the actual reality of the historical Types we play out with our lives that represent them! NOW the mind of the spirit is becoming dominate to the mind of the flesh, which is the perspective of the new life in Jesus Christ! THIS is how Christians are supposed to think and reason and act; with the mind of the spirit (Romans 8:5-6, 27-28, Ephesians 4:23-24, Philippians 27-28). Dina’s horrible experience was a shadow of something far more sinister going on.
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The Victim Tamar:

“And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly” II Samuel 13:12.

Tamar is the second innocent victim of folly shown in scripture. This is another strange story of seemingly meaningless bazaar bible history that simply has no place in such a Holy Book by God to his people… until you see the Type it portrays.
In the preceding two chapters we see King David murder a man and take his wife but never is the word folly used for his actions of horrific sin, so whatever is specifically done that is declared folly, is obviously a unique class of iniquity. And clearly this is another rape.
So why is rape a folly but murder-so-that-you-can-marry-your-victim’s-wife isn’t? Job gives us a clue in Chapter 24, but this is a rabbit trail:
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Rabbit Trail:

“Why, seeing (that) times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?” Job 24:1 (*3)

Job is asking the very common question; Why God, who sees everything, does not bring his promised judgment on behalf of his tormented people (Romans 12:19); “If there really is a God, why does he let bad things happen to good people?” (we will not answer this question until a later post).
Job continues for 11 verses of specifics that the wicked do to the defenseless until he comes to his concluding statement at the sum of all the horrors, Typed in the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, that validates his question;

“Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them” Job 24:12.

(I will begin the foundation of the answer in the next post but won’t complete it for several posts.) The passage continues to again reveal, though cryptically, the concept of the early morning Shechem murderer of man and the raper of women at night just before dawn, and the chapter ends with the knowledge that it will be “a little while” until they meet their just rewards, but the little while may run so “while” that Job knows men will want to call him a liar and his declaration of coming justice worthless (Job 24:24-25). Though the everyday "wicked men" are the surface topic of the passage, the seed of angels are the hidden topic in this whole chapter but this can only be picked up once the whole testimony of scripture is grasped on the subject. So whether you see it or not, let’s just move on. My point is that in that whole list of really bad stuff done to the innocent, God does not count it folly. Sin? Yes, Iniquity? Sure, wickedness? You bet, Folly? No. Folly is quite special and an exclusive concept, though as we will learn, it comes in a variety of manifestations. But enough with the Rabbit Trail let’s continue:
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The Victim Tamar Continued:
As something similar as with Shechem, Tamar’s brother Amnon was uncontrollably drawn by more than just lust to his own half-sister;

“And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar (8559); and Amnon (550) the son of David loved her. And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her” II Samuel 13:1-2.

Again in the Type of Genesis 6:2 we have a fair daughter, and someone’s Genesis 3:6 uncontrollable desire to the forbidden. So was Tamar guilty of defrauding her brother by her makeup or clothing choices, or her actions? There is no indication of this whatsoever. It seems that Tamar’s beauty was natural, her attire was normal for her royal position, and by what is written of her demeanor she is faultless. But it was her fair beauty nonetheless that moved the vexed man to a froth, and he did not know how to go about achieving his secret desires without the advice from a friend:

“But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab (3122), the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man” II Samuel 13:3 (see Genesis 3:1a for his Type).

Amnon clearly has an incestual spirit, but as many ruling families of the world’s recent past have shown, this is not as historically unusual as we today seem to think. A violation of God’s law? You bet (Deuteronomy 27:22), but nonetheless not unusual for ruling families and seemingly continues without intervention of God’s wrath for the violation.
We will skip the details of his friend’s advice but to note that Amnon had help conspiring how to acquire his great desire (love) (v.4), though by the wording it is possible Jonadab had no real thought to the ends which Amnon would take this. I am only conjecturing but it seems likely that all Johadab knew was that Amnon loved Tamar deeply and so he helped Amnon set up an intimate setting where it could be revealed to her. Jonadab’s declared error was his subtil ways of deception to achieve his honorable or dishonorable goals. So having deceived everyone into helping, including his father, the events were set up that arranged for Tamar to find herself in innocence within Amnon’s bedchamber, where his mind was so twisted by his rationalized lust of love that he actually imagined Tamar, a virgin, his sister, a daughter of Israel, would willingly lie with him in fornication.
So is incest the Folly we are examining? No, as Tamar makes clear:
“And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? And as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee” II Samuel 13:12-13.

Whether Tamar wanted to marry Amnon is not made clear, nor is it critical to the immediate topic; Tamar offered Amnon an acceptable alternative of marriage that would save both their reputations, meaning that incest was not a social taboo in Israel at that time, nor was it considered folly. Was it offensive to God? You bet it was; as God does not change his laws over time. Israel was already violating many of God’s laws yet God was mostly blessing them through king David’s less that fully obedient reign because his foundational desire was true to God's heart (I Samuel 13:14, Acts 13:22). This is yet another Old Testament example of New Testament grace in action; in the concept of sin not unto death (I John 5:16-17), that although does not end the relationship with God, nonetheless greatly adds sorrow and complexity to the strained relationship (I John 5:18). We know clearly that a marriage of incest might have gone unpunished though not please God, so what makes the rape of Tamar a folly in Israel?
We need to continue reading:

“Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved (157) her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone” II Samuel 13:14-15.

Well this is quite a different result from that of Dina. Why?
Because of his great hatred it seems quite clear that this was not Amon’s first rodeo and because of his confusion in how to go about it without a guiding advice, we see a very weak man who usually got what he wanted quite easily from less virtuous women because he was royalty. Since Tamar was a virgin she was not like the socially acceptable virtueless girls he had known, which awareness of consequence is revealed in the wording of his frustration in verse 2, and his sudden hatred after the fact. Did he ever really care for Tamar though the word used for his emotion was love (157)? I am sure at the time he really was in the great agony of genuine but frustrated secret 157 love (Proverbs 27:5):

Love 157 ahab; or aheb; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise):-- (be-) love (-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

But the drama doesn’t end there; it gets worse as he sends her packing after raping her:

“…And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her” II Samuel 13:15b-16.

What did she want from him after he raped her? She wanted him to marry her! Why?
Because the verse did not call her betrothed but only a virgin, so although the event occurred in a house of the city, she falls under a different law:

“If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you” Deuteronomy 22:23-24.

But:

“If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days” Deuteronomy 22:28-29.

Clearly Tamar falls under the second law. But why didn’t she cry out? Notice in the second verse is the addition of “lay hold on her” including even the non-consentual forced rape whereas in the first situation it suggests if she doesn’t scream she is at least a less than screaming-resistant victim implying a punishable degree of consent. Tamar’s response to his demand to “get out” tells us that she still thought there was hope of a marriage and she wanted to save both their faces. Being an innocent young virgin, the hope of redeeming marriage was always on her mind through the event, which is why she did not cry out. This is the thoughts in confusion of a pure-hearted virgin who’s very spirit has been forever changed by the act against her as she tries to put the pieces back together.
Tamar knew full well the utter ruin of folly that was done, and once word got out, they would both be marked for life, unrecoverable. What she could not comprehend was that Amnon cared so little about protecting his honor or being labeled a fool of folly (v.13) that he wouldn’t even consider marrying the girl that moments before, he loved with uncontrollable passion.

“So how does this apply to our study?”
I am suggesting that while Dinah’s Type is that of the “first time” Flood-of-Noah angelic rape of human daughters, Tamar represents in Type the experienced “second time” event now coming upon us refered to by “as the days of Noah” (Matthew 24:37).
While the sons of God actually fell in love with the women they took the first time, after their release, (itself Typed by the Revelation 9 bugs released unto judgment: Jude 1:6), these same sons of God will again capture and rape fair virgin daughters, but there will be a different kind of love this time, and afterward a very great impassioned hatred even stronger than their lust! (Daniel 11:37).


Notice that the first time the sons of God just took any beautiful woman that they chose (Genesis 6:2), but in the second Type in Amnon, they need help making the carefully conspired setup that arranges the perfect setting for the attack. Everyone was fooled concerning his real intentions, even king David who clearly represents God!
Now before you start throwing stones; of course God knows what’s going on, but this is a Type, and we will see all the evidence that suggests God is not ignorantly complicit in the plan to rape the girl (humanity)… scripture has already prophesied the details (Isaiah 42:9), which reveals his complete awareness, and confirms that the horrors done secretly for their own purposes, nonetheless play into his great plan of redemption (Romans 8:28).
Remember like Tamar, Amnon was David’s child too, just as the sons of God are his creation, as is mankind. But they are not quite the same, just as Tamar was Amnon’s half sister, which shows the spiritual distinction between good and evil in the same creation. Clearly such a relationship is forbidden in the law of God (II Corinthians 6:14, I Thessalonians 5:5, I John 1:5-6, 2:8-9), but this relationship of existence is not the “folly” reason for God’s wrath of what has been done. There is still more:
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What's In A Name?
Let’s look at the revealing names of the players in this Type:

Tamar 8559 Tamar; the same as 8558; Tamar, the name of three women and a place: Tamar.
8558 tamar; from an unused root meaning to be erect; a palm tree:-- palm (tree).

Amnon 550 ‘Amnown; or ‘Amiynown; from 539; faithful; Amnon (or Aminon), a son of David:-- Amnon.
539 aman; a primitive root; properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;… to go to the right hand:-- hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, + fail, be faithful (of long continuance, steadfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.

Jonadab 3122 Yownadab; a form of 3082; Jonadab, the name of an Israelite and of a Rechabite:-- Jonadab.
3082 Yehownadab; from 3068 and 5068; Jehovah-largessed; Jehonadab, the name of an Israelite and of an Arab:-- Jehonadab, Jonadab. Compare 3122.
Largess: Liberal giving; a liberal gift. - Webster’s 1948.

It is not such a surprise to see the very fair Tamar means an upright palm. Notice this meaning is not an upright tree but specifically an upright palm; We can imagine honorable royal elegance and beauty, and even the alluring fronds of her breeze-blown hair with the quiet swishing of her frond like skirts etc., that can seriously take a storm and bounce back. This quite accurately describes the upright beautiful status of godly daughters in post 261 “Fair Daughters” as they are confirmed by Jesus to be gods (Psalm 82:6-7, John 10:34-36), but primarily this represents the Jews on many levels.

But what a surprise to see the meaning of Amnon is; faithful! And the root of this meaning reveals the probable relationship they had; it seems that Amnon was her personal protector, her faithful guide, her stable compass, the one she could turn to for good advice. Her friend. It was probably this long-term close “older brother” relationship that pulled his emotions to her upright beauty until skewed by a sudden realization that he was madly in love with her though he couldn’t tell her because of their friendship of “councilor and ward” if you will. He needed help, and his friend Jonadab was just the man.

But what a name there too! Made liberally gifted by God?! Wow. It’s just too bad that he was so very…subtil (2450) (II Samuel 13:3).

Subtil 2450 chakam; from 2449; wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful):-- cunning (man), subtil, ([un-]), wise([hearted], man).
2449 chakam; a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act):-- x exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.

Can you think of another who was so subtil?

“Now the serpent was more subtil (6175) than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made…” Genesis 3:1.

Subtil 6175 ‘aruwm; passive particle of 6191; cunning (usually in a bad sense):-- crafty, prudent, subtil.
6191 ‘aram; a primitive root; properly, to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning (usually in a bad sense):-- X very, beware, take crafty [counsel], be prudent, deal subtilly.

Now it appears that these two subtils are not the same things, but the only real difference seems to be the motivation. I propose that Jonadab was not intentionally aiding Amnon to do wickedly, though that is exactly what he did by his subtlety. Kinda reminds you of Balaam don’t it?

What I am driving at is that the girl, the boy, the friend, and even the dad King David himself, all thought they wanted good things, and thought they were all doing their part to bring those good things, but somehow it all turned out very badly. These names reveal that they were the people of God, blessed of God personally in a variety of ways and each using their gifted namesake natures to the best of their abilities, but rottenness and decay and ruin were the end results that I don’t think any of them actually wanted. So what actually started this chain reaction of destruction? It was a compromised national perspective. These were a confused people trying to go about their “godly” lives as best they could, they were the historical people of God but their understanding of godliness was now so far off track that they had no awareness to the evil that was overcoming them all as they lived out their pathetic excuses for “godly lives” (II Timothy 3:5).

Having drawn this post slightly off track and thereby expose a bit of today’s confused American Christian culture of destruction, My main point was that rape was the folly of Amnon but I don’t think he thought that was his original intent for the arranged meeting, though it actually was. What played out after she arrived to make an intimate supper was his unplanned step-by-step furtherance to an unholy end.

Now we have two events that didn’t turn out the way the attacker had planned. I will not draw out the rest of the examples to this degree, but enough to show the method and nature of folly:
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The Loose Woman:
Deuteronomy 22:13-21 details the public ugly trial when a man accuses his wife of not being a virgin when they married. But why he didn’t bring up the topic on the first night is explained in the first verse of the long ordeal:

“If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,” Deuteronomy 22:13.

And so upon a later acquired hatred the ordeal begins and the accusations fly. Skipping all the part about her being found innocent and his resulting punishment because he “brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel” (v.19), let’s skip ahead to that part if she is actually found guilty by a lack of evidence to the contrary:

“Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought (6213) folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you” Deuteronomy 22:21.

How do I not address the fact that God’s people as Christians, here in America, see this as ancient and barbaric custom and not a law of God? or that Islam is presently attempting to obey the law of Moses’ God (without his God), and so by a heart of hatred and violence (provided by their own god) they take it as far beyond what God intended as America doesn’t take it the other in “Christian” tolerance. Or that because they do and we don’t, it is curious that they are now rising to rule the world while we are in decline. Or that in our founder’s complete comprehension of true Christianity in practice, they created laws for this nation that in the mercy of Christ refrained from the death sentence but nonetheless made such activity a breach of our laws for the good of the nation just as God intended. Or how do I not deal with the concept that the man sure got off cheaply for his false accusation while she pays heavily for bringing folly. There simply is not space or time to address all this properly so we will just stick to the topic and realize that this woman is not an innocent as were the previous examples, she has brought folly to her nation by sleeping around before she was married.

Wrought 6213 ‘asah; a primary root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows):-- accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress (-ed), (put in) excecute (-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast… and it goes on and on in kind.

So being very specific it seems that her fornication is not just personal folly, but what brings folly upon the nation. By these three examples we clearly get the impression that folly is at least sexual, but by the working of that folly there is something else in the meaning.
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The Folly of Achan:
In Joshua 7 we see Achan had disobeyed the command of God and taken a single garment, some silver, and some gold from among the ruins of Jericho after the conquest. The result was that God had removed his aid and they utterly failed the next conquest of a very small town called Ai. About 36 Hebrew men lost their lives that day as a result of Achan’s folly, so God provided the cure;

“And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel” Joshua 7:15.

Until you know exactly why, this judgment seems excessive to include Achan’s wife and children (much as Genesis 6:7 included the animals and birds in the destruction), but do you still require God to explain himself in each circumstance before you believe he is just, or do you even after a lifetime of faith, continue to argue with God because you just can’t see how this is righteous of him? We won’t for several more posts cover in depth God’s very specific reason, so you’re just going to have to work that out between you and God till then. In the meantime note that transgressing God’s covenant, and working folly in Israel, were two different things to God, so let’s back up to v.11 and get God’s perspective on this:

a). “Israel hath sinned,
b). and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing,
c). and have also stolen,
d). and dissembled (3584) also, and they have put it even among their own stuff” Joshua 7:11.

a). Clearly Achan sinned when he disobeyed the commandment not to take anything. What seems immediately troubling is that the sin of one man affects everyone. We come to grips with this when we see that folly is a disease that enters the whole body as aids enters individually by a single act of disobedience, though that disobedience may be as remote as of one who donates blood. Now you have a deadly man freely walking among everyone else, pretending that he is perfectly healthy but with the probability of killing many more with his hidden deadly disease. THIS is the concept of Folly.

b). Though the folly of Achan was singular in act, God isolates and identifies the several offenses: By his secret and solitary sin, Achan caused the nation to transgress God’s covenant (Joshua 6:17). And God makes clear that the transgression was having taken something accursed (v.18). Now if greed or covetousness was the transgression, it would be hard to accuse the nation of the offense, but knowing that the thing taken was accursed, means that a curse comes with the thing taken. The curse is not personal; it reaches the whole camp in which it resides (Leviticus 19:29) secretly or not, just as a contagious virus or an unseen communicable disease. In this way God states the whole body of people are under the curse though they had no idea or intentional part in bringing it, just as king David by innocently sending his daughter to her evil rapist brought evil upon his whole house. This is how God can declare the entire camp of Israel as having broken his covenant though through only one man, as a Type of Adam’s fall that affects us all (Romans 5:14). And so God revealed the curse, and declared the cure:

Cause: “Israel hath sinned” Joshua 7:11
Symptom: “Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed:
Cure: neither will I be with you anymore, except ye destroy the accursed from among you” Joshua 7:12.

c). Now understanding God’s concern for the national wellbeing because of a curse that separated them from him (I John 1:5), Achan also simply stole. How did he steal? Because what he took was by covetousness, and belonged to the treasury of the LORD (Joshua 6:19); Achan stole from God. Because the things stolen were found among the people, they are all counted guilty with the one who took it, just as the universal affect of the curse, but the degree of guilt is equal to the degree of God’s cure; repentant ignorant sinners go free by the death of one, though having previously paid a high price for the curse (I Timothy 1:12-13). Although quite alarming, this seems to suggest that God works with the church through a socialistic approach (*4).

Enters Folly Joshua 7:15 a from b:
d). God further isolates theft from dissembling, though they are connected: Achan stole and then he covered it up so no one would know.

Dissembled 3584 kachash; a primitive root; to be untrue, in word (to lie, feign, disown) or deed (to disappoint, fail, cringe):-- deceive, deny, dissemble, fail, deal falsely, be found liars, (be-) lie, lying, submit selves.

With this greater understanding we have a lot more comprehension of why Ananias and Sapphira dropped dead at the perceptive feet of Peter for their folly of dissembled theft against the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:1-10). The curse was not able to take root since Peter caught them in their effort, and at the confrontational mouth of Peter God purged the curse from among his Church as required by Joshua 7:12b. Ananias and Sapphira were unknowingly attempting to bring folly onto the Church through their covetous desire to be seen as faithful though they were not. Oh how this rings a very loud bell in the midst of the churches today! You tell me; “Is our church today plagued by the accused thing?” Are we apparently powerless to stand victorious before our enemies of vice, sin, addictions, and more?

So we see that folly is not actually just a sexual thing, and we begin to comprehend there is a fundamental principle that underlies what makes things folly.
I may later expand this post because of all the important things here, but for now this will have to do and so I leave you some studies you can do on your own (*5).
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The Folly of Angels: Psalm 49.
“So what is the folly of angels that God charged them with in Job?”

“Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?” Job 4:18-19.

It is quite obvious that while their action of folly was sexual in nature (Genesis 6:2,4), the thing that made it folly goes way beyond the act. We will significantly explore the principle of this folly in a shocking concluding post that will really tie all this together, as this verse in Job includes others with the angels in God’s disappointed complaint of untrustworthyness.
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(*1) Original Intent of These Three Specific Colleges:
Harvard and Yale were both started by Congregationalists for training ministers of the Gospel.
Harvard’s original two Mottoes were: “For Christ and the Church” and “For the Glory of Christ”. Included in its Directive to Students is the following; “Let every student be plainly instructed and… consider well [that] the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus, which is eternal life (John 17:3), and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.” And “Everyone shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein.”
Yale’s Student Admonishment reads in part: “Above all, have an eye to the great end of all your studies, which is to obtain the clearest conceptions of Divine things and to lead you to a saving knowledge of God in His Son, Jesus Christ.” And “All the scholars are required to live a religious and blameless life according to the rules of God’s Word, diligently reading the holy Scriptures…and constantly attending all the duties of religion.”
Princeton was started by Presbyterians to train ministers of the Gospel. School President and professor John Witherspoon required; “Every student shall attend worship in the college hall morning and evening…[and] shall attend public worship on the Sabbath…. [T]here shall be assigned to each class certain exercises for their religious instruction…. And no student belonging to any class shall neglect them.” - “Four Centuries of American Education” by Dave Barton.
These colleges strove diligently to attach honor and respect to their names, but now since the respected names remain, respect remains also granted, though they are virtually the direct opposite of what they started out to be. The result is the fruit of folly.

(*2) Mt. Seir 8165 Se’iyr; formed like 8163; rough; Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine:-- Seir. 8163 sa’iyr; or sabir; from 8175; shaggy; as noun, a he-goat; by analogy, a faun:-- devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough, satyr.

(*3) Why the Delay in Justice?
The martyred saints themselves ask the same question in Revelation 6:9-10, and God explains why in Revelation 6:11, though he doesn’t there provide the reason for the injustice in the first place; that point is irrelevant to the query:

“And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the alter the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, doest thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” Revelation 6:9-10.

“And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled” Revelation 6:11.

Curious Support:
Enoch simply pre-supports the clarity of the big picture by providing the link between the first global persecution to the second:

“Thus has the whole earth been filled with blood and with iniquity. And now behold the souls of those who are dead, cry out, and complain even to the gate of heaven (compare with Revelation 6:9-10). Their groaning ascends; nor can they escape from unrighteousness which is committed on earth (compare with Revelation 6:11). Thou knowest all things, before they exist. Thou knowest these things, and what has been done by them; yet thou dost not speak to us. What on account of these ought we (your ministering angels) to do to them?
Then the Most High, the Great and Holy One spoke and sent (His angel) to the son of Lamech, saying: Say to him (Noah) in my name; Conceal thyself. Then explain to him the consummation which is about to take place; for all the earth shall perish; the waters of a deluge shall come over the whole earth, and all things which are in it shall be destroyed” Ethiopic Book of Enoch 9:9-10:4

There was a time before the Flood when God delayed his wrath until all the righteous who would be killed were killed and there was none righteous left but Noah. So because man is only authorized to produce children while living on earth as mortals, God preserved Noah and his family to continue producing the growing number of souls that would be righteous for filling God’s eternal kingdom. At that time God “extracted” Noah and his family by boat and then poured out his wrath upon the corruption and cleansed the earth before putting Noah and his family back upon it.
The same thing in Type is happening again today as the violence grows and God’s faithful are martyred in ever increasing numbers.

“The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come” Isaiah 57:1.

While scripturally ignorant Christians are eagerly but over anticipating the rapture to escape Satan’s violence, the Type shows us that this is not the purpose of the Rapture, but to protect us from God’s great wrath against the folly itself, after the righteous are “removed” primarily at the hand of Satan’s people until there is only “Noah” left.

(*4) Is God a Socialist?
Socialism: A political and economic theory of social organization based on collective or governmental ownership and democratic management of the essential means for the production and distribution of goods; also, a policy or practice based on this theory. (italics added).

This topic opens the door to another very large study, which only adds complexity with the present corruption of all things, that truly originated with God but being perverted, serves the enemy’s use.

(*5) Additional Studies:
The Folly of Benjamin: (Judges 19:23, 20:6,10).

The Fool Nabal and his kind: I Samuel 25:25, Proverbs 13:13-16, 14:8-9,17-18,24-25,29, 15:21, 16:22-23, 17:11-13, 18:12-13, 26:4-12, Ecclesiastes 10:5-7.

Second Chances: Psalm 85:8, Job 33:27-28.

The Sacrifice for Folly: Job 42:8

More Sexual Folly: Proverbs 5 concluding in v.23.

The Folly of the Sumerian Prophecies (http://survive2012doomsday.com/2012-prophecies/survive-2012-doomsday-and-the-sumerian-nibiru-prophecies/), and the Jewish Kabbalah (http://www.kabbalah.com/about/what-is-kabbalah):

“And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah” Jeremiah 23:13-14.

(I do not include the above two links for you to go read up on the details of this toxic poison, but simply so you can perhaps peruse a single page of their own information and so comprehend the nature of this very current, though long ago prophesied folly.)

Conclusion of Foundational Corruption:

“Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly.
For all this his (God’s) anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still” Isaiah 9:17.

In my studied opinion, said simplistically; Folly is the foundational confusion of thinking Death is actually Life.
Suicide as an escape is folly.
Rape for love is folly.
The illusion of righteousness when you are actually with sin, is folly.
Making the righteous appear as the wicked is folly.
Casting away eternity with God for a temporal pleasure is folly.
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