What does it mean to be sheep in the midst of wolves (Matthew 10:16)?
As Jesus readied His twelve disciples to go out and minister, first He gave detailed guidelines for their early mission (Matthew 10:5–15), and then He prepared them for opposition and persecution: “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16, ESV).
Jesus knew that His messengers would encounter fierce resistance, so He immediately dismissed any idealistic notion of what it meant to be His servant. He told them that persecution and betrayal would come from unexpected places and all kinds of people, even family and friends (Matthew 10:21–22, 34–36). Jesus also knew that many would respond to the disciples’ message, so they had to go. To be as “sheep amidst the wolves” is the Lord’s fitting imagery portraying how we obey His call and take the message of salvation to receptive souls scattered amid a crowd of hostile challengers.
The ceremony by which a member of the public is raised to knighthood by the dictate of a sovereign.
By the way, all of these look to be easily reverse-image searchable via tineye.com for those that dont know this site yet, helps finding the source and the context.
Hurt - The history (Johnny Cash, Trent Reznor) and ...
Raveis Kole Music
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Oct 2, 2021 — Originally written by Trent Reznor and released by Nine Inch Nails on the 1994 album Downward Spiral, the song was brilliantly reimagined by ...
The subject matter of the work is the mythological story of Perseus beheading Medusa, a hideous woman-faced Gorgon whose hair had been turned to snakes; anyone who looked at her was turned to stone. Perseus stands naked except for a sash and winged sandals, triumphant on top of the body of Medusa with her head, crowned with writhing snakes, in his raised hand. Blood spews from Medusa's severed neck. The bronze sculpture, in which Medusa's head turns men to stone, is appropriately surrounded by three huge marble statues of men: Hercules, David, and later Neptune.[2] Cellini's use of bronze in Perseus and the head of Medusa, and the motifs he used to respond to the previous sculpture in the piazza, were highly innovative. Examining the sculpture from the back, one can see a self-portrait of the sculptor Cellini on the back of Perseus' helmet.
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Cellini's statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa, Loggia of Piazza della Signoria. Florence, Italy.
Hero slaying a monster?
(i.e. Mike Johnson to be removed as Speaker?)
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Matthew 10:16
https://biblehub.com/matthew/10-16.htm
https://www.gotquestions.org/sheep-in-the-midst-of-wolves.html
I think we here can relate all too well.
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'The Accolade', 1901. Artist: Edmund Blair Leighton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accolade
The ceremony by which a member of the public is raised to knighthood by the dictate of a sovereign.
By the way, all of these look to be easily reverse-image searchable via tineye.com for those that dont know this site yet, helps finding the source and the context.
Someone (Mike Johnson?) has been given some sort of knighthood (by deep state monsters)?
Maybe he got his button like pense.
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Johnny Cash, "Hurt" --
correction; trent reznor from NIN
???
The link Luna provided was a Johnny Cash song.
Hurt - The history (Johnny Cash, Trent Reznor) and ... Raveis Kole Music https://raveiskole.com › blog › blog › hurt-the-history-j... Oct 2, 2021 — Originally written by Trent Reznor and released by Nine Inch Nails on the 1994 album Downward Spiral, the song was brilliantly reimagined by ...
A sort of early Nancy Pelosi, then?
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"The Course of Empire, Destruction," painting by Thomas Cole.
We are on a course of destruction.
As all empires so collapse. Maybe the past 100 years was too terrible to salvage. To some extent we need a reset on the good side also.