Proverbs 10:25
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As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
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All wicked persons will be torn to shreds and never seen again, like the passing of a noisy and violent tornado. In stark contrast, righteous persons build solid lives and leave a lasting legacy, and then they pass on to dwell forever in heaven. The wicked have come and gone for 6,000 years, and their arrivals and departures should not bother the righteous. Godly men and women should instead build lasting families with confidence.
Wickedness is a sure way to shorten your life and ruin your hopes, but righteousness will extend your life and realize your plans. Trouble will certainly come and destroy the wicked, but the righteous are firmly established on a foundation that cannot be moved. This contrast between the wicked and righteous is one of Solomon's main themes (10:6,9,16,24-25,27-30; 11:3,5-8,18-21,31; 12:2-3,7,13-14,21,26,28; 13:6,9,14-15,21-22,25; 14:11,14,19,32; 15:6,8-9,24,26; 20:7; 21:12,15-16,18,21; 22:12; 28:10,18; 29:6).
When you choose a wicked lifestyle, you set in motion God's supernatural judgments against you and the combined effect of human punishment and high risk. This is a hopeless scenario, which only fools presume upon. By choosing a godly lifestyle, you bring to bear God's supernatural blessings, the favor of men, and the benefit of safety. There is no comparison between these two ways of living. What is your choice this day?
Sodom rejected God's sexual laws, but fire from heaven destroyed them all! Pharaoh abused God's people Israel, but the Lord destroyed his land and drowned him in the Red Sea! Ahab rejected God's prophets, so a chance arrow killed him in battle, dogs ate his wife, friends cut the heads off his 70 sons, and his daughter killed his sons-in-law! Judas chose to betray Jesus Christ, and in great grief he dashed his bowels across a field!
Alexander was named great and thought himself great, but he and his family were cut off and are no more! What happened to Cleopatra's ambition and the nation she ruled? Can you find remains of Attila, Genghis Khan, King Tamerlane, or Sultan Suleyman? Where is the demented and devil-possessed head of the third Reich? These wicked men and their nations have disappeared from the earth or remain as jokes of their former glory.
Righteous men rejoice when the wicked are destroyed (11:10; Ps 58:1-11). Though the wicked are destroyed first by death, they shall be raised again to stand before God and be cast into hell. The righteous build their houses on the rock of divine wisdom lived and preached by Jesus Christ, and they will survive the storms of this life and that of the final judgment (Matt 7:24-27). He that doeth the will of God abideth forever (I John 2:15-17).
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