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VAIL (VEIL) — <232507> Isaiah 25:7 (b) This is typical of the blindness which Satan has brought over the minds and hearts of the Gentile nations. It is described more fully under the figure of blindness in <470404>2 Corinthians 4:4.
<470314> 2 Corinthians 3:14 (a)This represents the peculiar unbelief which fills the hearts and minds of the people of Israel as they read the Old Testament and cannot see Christ depicted there.
<580619> Hebrews 6:19 (b)The word is used to describe that mysterious space that separate us from God, but through which by faith we come to God.
<220201> Song of Solomon 2:1 (c) No doubt this is descriptive of the deeply distressing experiences of life into which the Lord brings the fragrance of His presence, the comfort of His words, and the sweetness of His fellowship to His own people. We should note that the word is in the plural, for there are many valleys between the cradle and the grave.
<232201> Isaiah 22:1 (c) This probably represents the feelings of the prophet when he was depressed in spirit, and felt quite crushed beneath the burden of Israel's future. He was looking forward to the terrible destruction that awaited His people and it brought him low before the Lord.
<234004> Isaiah 40:4 (c) It may be that this is literal, and yet it may indicate that deep sorrows and perplexities may be overcome and great difficulties may be removed. It probably is a figure of the smooth, blessed life in which Christians may walk when God is present in power. (See also <420305>Luke 3:5.)
<240223> Jeremiah 2:23 (a) It seems as though these enemies of God were hiding in secret places to carry out their wicked designs. Where there should have been happiness under God's blessing, they were sinning and inviting God's wrath.
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<263701> Ezekiel 37:1 (a) God sees all the nation of Israel as gathered together in one place, and that a low place. We see Israel scattered all over the world, and found in every country. No doubt they are in the valley, for they are the subjects of other people when they should be citizens of their own country, with their own king.
<250408> Lamentations 4:8.)
<202504> Proverbs 25:4 (b)God will remove evil things from our lives in order to make us fit for the Master's use.
<236620> Isaiah 66:20 (a) The teaching is that Israel will again become the repository of God's truth.
<241804> Jeremiah 18:4 (a)Israel has been marred by sinful practices, and individuals have suffered in the same way. God would like to make each of His children a
vessel meet for His purposes and use, but wicked ways and sinful practices hinder. (See also <242228>Jeremiah 22:28; <450922>Romans 9:22-23.)
<244811> Jeremiah 48:11 (a)Moab had one success after another and had not been defeated nor suffered from other calamities. For this reason he became full of pride and self-sufficiency. The vessels evidently represent troubles of different kinds. Moab had experienced none of them.
<245134> Jeremiah 51:34 (a)This king had taken away the wealth of Israel and ruined the crops. Israel is the vessel mentioned in the passage.
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<280808> Hosea 8:8 (a) It describes the failure of Israel to be a receptacle for God's glory and God's Word.
<281315> Hosea 13:15 (b)These vessels represent the excellent qualities of the leaders of Israel which God would take away and destroy.
<401348> Matthew 13:48 (c) This probably is descriptive of heaven and the various mansions into which God's people will be gathered when they go to be with the Lord.
<402504> Matthew 25:4 (b) It may mean that these wise virgins were really in touch with heaven, and all of God's supply of the Spirit. The other five had simply been worked upon by the Spirit, whereby certain good results had been obtained, but not that complete act of linking them with heaven and God, called the "new birth."
<420816> Luke 8:16 (a) No real Christian will hide his light, nor smother his testimony under his business enterprises, nor in laziness. (See also
<400515> Matthew 5:15; <410421>Mark 4:21.)
<440915> Acts 9:15 (a) This is a beautiful type of Paul, and of any other believer into whom the Lord has put His Spirit. God makes the believer the receptacle for the gifts and graces of the Spirit for the use and glory of His great name. (See also
<470407>2 Corinthians 4:7.)
<550220> 2 Timothy 2:20 (a) These vessels represent people. The vessels unto honor are those in the parlor, made of gold, silver and expensive china. The vessels unto dishonor are those in the kitchen that are used for cooking and other purposes.
These represent two kinds of Christians; the beautiful ones with lovely attractive
lives are like the vase in the parlor and have little value to the household, and are not usually useful. Those in the kitchen attract little attention, if any, but they are of the most use to the family. It would be easier to get along without those in the parlor than those in the kitchen. The Lord is telling us that if we purge ourselves from the evils described in the first part of the chapter, then we shall be clean vessels that are fit for God's use and will be beautiful in His sight.
<600307> 1 Peter 3:7 (a) It is emblematic of the position occupied by the wife in whom reposes precious graces which she sweetly expresses in her home to make the presence of God felt there.
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<660227> Revelation 2:27 (a) The Lord compares His destruction of the enemy to that destruction which the potter executes upon a vessel that is not made right.
<661507> Revelation 15:7 (a)These golden receptades contain God's wrath. The lesson we learn is that the wrath of God is just as precious and valuable as His mercy and grace. We give just as much honor to the judge who properly punishes the guilty as we give when the innocent is set free. His wrath is preserved as a treasure in the golden casket. This wrath is poured out in <661601>Revelation 16:1-
2. (See also <661701>Revelation 17:1.)
<014911> Genesis 49:11 (b) This vine is Israel. Judah was tied to Israel by blood bonds, and his children also bore the same relationship.
<053232> Deuteronomy 32:32 (a) The vine in this case refers to the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is in contrast with what they should be, the vine of Israel. God is telling us that Israel had become so corrupt that they were more like those two wicked cities than like His city, and their works were as evil as those of Sodom.
<070912> Judges 9:12 (b) Jotham is telling the people of Israel that they have invited a weak, helpless person to be their king, because he considered that Abimelech was an incompetent man.
<198008> Psalm 80:8 (a) The nation of Israel is compared to the vine. God brought them from Egypt and placed them in the land of Palestine. They replaced the heathen nations whom God enabled Joshua to conquer.
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<19C803> Psalm 128:3 (a) In this case the wife is compared to a vine because she would be beautiful in her life, and fruitful in her conduct. Children would be born into the family, and they would be a blessing to the mother, to the father, and to the nation.
<240221> Jeremiah 2:21 (a) Here we read the sad lament of the Lord because of the evil conduct of His people. The vine is Israel. They did not act like a good vine bearing grapes, but as an evil vine, bearing useless fruit, or poisonous fruit.
<261706> Ezekiel 17:6 (b) This vine is probably the apostate Kingdom of Israel. The first great eagle, the King of Babylon, invaded Israel and took some of the people away as captives to his own land. The second eagle was the King of Egypt. Israel sent messengers to Egypt to obtain help, but Egypt failed and Israel was destroyed. It is a wonderful allegory which is described in verses 12-18. (See also
<230502>Isaiah 5:2; <240221>Jeremiah 2:21;
<261501> Ezekiel 15:2.)
<281001> Hosea 10:1 (a)God expected fruit from His people Israel. He received none. Israel turned to idolatry and to wicked practices learned from the people of the land. They served themselves, and satisfied their own lusts, while God's Word was neglected, and His service ignored.
<431501> John 15:1 (a) In this case the Lord Jesus Himself is the vine. Those who are saved by His grace are the branches. God sees the believer as a very part of Christ Jesus Himself. The branch bears the likeness of the vine, and has the same living sap flowing through it constantly. It bears the kind of fruit that characterizes the vine. All the fruit on the vine is found on the branches. Let us be bearing fruit for Him.
<661418> Revelation 14:18 (a)This vine refers to the people of the earth of every
The Lord is warning against mixing truths or doctrines in any service. If one Sunday-school teacher is teaching her class the true gospel of salvation by grace alone, and the teacher in the next class is teaching salvation by morals or forgiveness by merit, then there is little expectation of gathering
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a crop for God. The seeds are mixed. If the farmer sows wheat in his field, but another one sows weeds in among the wheat, there will be no wheat crop gathered. The weeds will succeed. Corn is planted by itself, and potatoes by themselves, and wheat by itself. So it must be with God's gospel. It must be taught and given where there will be an opportunity for a crop.
<198015> Psalm 80:15 (a) The vineyard is God's people gathered as a nation in Palestine. The vines are the individual Jews.
<220106> Song of Solomon 1:6 (c) In this strange passage, probably there is some irony. The people rather often during the life of Christ indicated that they believed He could do wonderful things. Some acknowledged Him as a sovereign ruler. Others indicated their faith in His power. He was not allowed, however, to be the ruler of His people Israel, to deliver them from their enemies, and to be their Messiah. They rejected His Lordship, although they claimed to be the people of God.
<230108> Isaiah 1:8 (b) The vineyard is the nation of Israel, and the daughter represents the people in that nation. They were desolate because they had rejected the Lord of their lives.
<402001> Matthew 20:1 (b) This type represents any field of labor where God may place His servants to labor for Him.
<402133> Matthew 21:33 (b)The vineyard is Israel, the householder is God Himself, the husbandmen are the rulers and leaders of the nation of Israel. (See also
<411201>Mark 12:1; <421306>Luke 13:6; 20:9.)
<400307> Matthew 3:7 (a) This type represents wicked teachers whose messages from their mouths poison those who hear them so that they are eternally lost. Not all snakes are vipers. Vipers are snakes which kill with the poison from their fangs, such as the cobra and the rattlesnake. Vipers are a type of false teachers of false cults, who damage and destroy the souls of all who believe their teachings. (See also <402333>Matthew 23:33; <420307>Luke 3:7.)
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It was used to show the enemy how He despised them, and loved Israel. (See also
<233722>Isaiah 37:22; <241417>Jeremiah 14:17; 18:13; 31:4.)
<234701> Isaiah 47:1 (a) In derision our Lord calls this wicked city by that beautiful name of virgin. He knew and they knew how wicked the city was, and He used this name in derision.
<244611> Jeremiah 46:11 (a)Again our Lord speaks in derision of the evil nation of Egypt which was living in wickedness and sin, and was held up to ridicule by the God of Israel.
<402501> Matthew 25:1 (b) Probably these women are called virgins to represent that they are professing Christians. It is generally thought by Bible students that five of these represent true Christians, who are real believers, and the other represent professing Christians, who are not really saved.
<020408> Exodus 4:8 (a) God intended that this sign should carry a message to the hearts of all who observed it. It failed to do so. Pharaoh would not believe.
<102214> 2 Samuel 22:14 (a) It is quite probable that the thunder was God's word of warning concerning His power and His might. (See also <184009>Job 40:9;
<194606>Psalm 46:6; 77:18; 104:7.)
<199303> Psalm 93:3 (a)The power of water, the irresistible waves, and the force of the flood are called the voice of God, because they are supposed to bring a warning message to the people of the power of God. (See also
<241013> Jeremiah 10:13; 51:16; <264302>Ezekiel 43:2; <660115>Revelation 1:15;
VOMIT — <202611> Proverbs 26:11 (a)Vomit is good food that has been mixed with the juices of the body, and is then thrown out for consumption by another. It represents doctrines that are taken from the Word of God into the human mind, are mixed with human ideas, and then given out for others to believe and accept. That which emanates from the pens and the lips of false teachers who present a false faith is "vomit" in the Bible sense of the word. (See also <610222>2 Peter 2:22.)
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