Okay so if I heard someone bellow out woe, woe, woe I would turn around and look for a flying or falling object. Pretty straight forward, in fact, we could say that this is a universal language for “look out”, with the exception of “fore” which is used in golf.
Here’s a key right out the gate: when you hear a woe from Jesus you should stop running and buckin’ and find out what’s off.
So but Jesus wasn’t saying to the various woe cities look out. He was clearly telling them that they were heading in the wrong direction; that, they in fact were the falling object. But so when He was announcing these words known as the “woe’s”, He was telling them, that they need to stop and reconsider. In fact, he may have un-woe’ed them, had they properly responded. But the thing about us humans is that we don’t like to be wrong, especially in our religious beliefs. Just ask any Crusader.
But, and I say but, this message has now taken a turn for the better meaning as God has shifted my initial thoughts on the message and minimalist focus and expanded it to include lots of woe scenario’s or rather examples of situations that invoked a woe response and outcome. Of course the outcome can be changed if the woe-sters perform a repentance turn-a-bout, and if it is in the will and plan of God to offer that opportunity to them. Sometimes the woe-sters want to take their chance with God after all possible chances are gone. Yup this is the stupidity of thinking, that you are good enough to change Gods mind about your woe-sterism. Allow me to save you, the trouble of taking a very bad journey, with no return tickets available. If you go there you will woe there, and there is no turning things around. But back to talking to the authentically born-again believer – let’s hit some scriptures about the pronounced woes of God and see if any hit home shall we?
