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In Strong's Concordance, I found it very interesting that the Hebrew word for "confusion" has to do with shame and reproach, not so much muddled or fuzzy thinking. It is also included in the verses against beastiality and incest.

My take on the true meaning of "Confusion' in the word is that it is a fruit of doing things that are contrary to God.

In other words, if your sin separates you from the Lord, you will be "confused" as a consequence of reproachable behavior.

This explains a lot of Leftist and Elite Uniparty thinking, and why they have to monitor us all the time as barometers of clear thought and logic... they are too confused to know how to act except to react to God's precepts in rebellion.

1 posted on 08/11/2018 2:02:07 PM PDT by Sontagged
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To: Sontagged

“confusion” occurs 26 times in 25 verses in the KJV.

Lev 18:23 - Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman
stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

Lev 20:12 - And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they
have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

1Sa 20:30 - Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the
perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own
confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?

Ezr 9:7 - Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our
iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands,
to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Job 10:15 - If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of
confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

Psa 35:4 - Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned
back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Psa 35:26 - Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let
them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psa 44:15 - My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Psa 70:2 - Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned
backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Psa 71:1 - In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Psa 109:29 - Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their
own confusion, as with a mantle.

Isa 24:10 - The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Isa 30:3 - Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of
Egypt your confusion.

Isa 34:11 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell
in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Isa 41:29 - Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and
confusion.

Isa 45:16 - They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion
together that are makers of idols.

Isa 61:7 - For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion:
therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Jer 3:25 - We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against
the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the
voice of the LORD our God.

Jer 7:19 - Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the
confusion of their own faces?

Jer 20:11 - But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall
stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their
everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Dan 9:7 - O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day;
to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that
are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that
they have trespassed against thee.

Dan 9:8 - O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers,
because we have sinned against thee.

Act 19:29 - And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus,
men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

1Co 14:33 - For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Jas 3:16 - For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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2 posted on 08/11/2018 2:27:13 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (;I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.” Sherlock Holmes)
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To: Sontagged
Often when we try to be religious, or process our faith, or even God, we try to do it intellectually. We categorize, analyze and break into pieces what we think we know about God and His Word. What we are not comprehending is that God Is. We cannot get snatches of Him, or His truth. We must get Him. With Him comes everything else, truth, power, love, etc. God is and He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
4 posted on 08/11/2018 5:23:01 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: Sontagged
For me, the ultimate verses on confusion are in Romans 1. It says because we have refused to acknowledge God as our Creator, He has given us a "reprobate" or a "debased" mind. Evolution teaching has rendered us insane. The very next verses mentioned are about homosexuality. He says "Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.

Today it is "reasonable" to believe that a man can really be a woman or vice versa. We believe by taxing people we can have more money. We believe we can control the climate. There are a hundred more concepts that have become normalized in the last 20 years that are ridiculous on the face of it.

We are calling evil, good, and good evil. Abortion is not murder. Sodomy is normal. Children don't need parents.

The Truth is found in Scripture, but we refuse to even read it anymore. Is it ironic that where evolution is taught and Bible is forbidden, that's increasingly where terrible shootings are now occurring? I'm 67yo and only in the past 20 years or so do we see these mass shootings. If you were to read Romans 1 to a politician and suggest fixing all these problems by bringing prayer and Bible reading back to schools, they would laugh at you, but that's exactly what God said went wrong. It says they will suppress the truth.

If you explained to a person that they will die and go to hell if they don't do such and such, it seems a reasonable person would inquire as to what to do, but they would rather deny there is such a place. Even God said "Come let us reason together". He said I place before you life and death, blessing and cursing, but most people will cry out, I choose death and cursing". A verse or two later God even tells us to choose life, because He know we will choose death and cursing.

Yes, we have become insane and the only remedy is 2Chron 7:14. But what are the odds from insane people doing that?

It's hard to tell someone that evolution is false, but it's not me saying it, it's God saying it. If we can't believe Genesis 1, then why believe Jesus rose from the grave. Why believe in the virgin birth? Why believe Revelation and the Antichrist if you doubt Genesis? God even wrote in Exodus that because He created the world in 6 days, we are to rest on the 7th. It's not from me, but from God. Is God a liar? Did Jesus tell His disciples that we really came from apes or pond scum? Jesus never corrected the record about Genesis but He did quote from it. If you believe we evolved from nothing over billions of years, you are taking the word of an atheist over God and have made your decision on who to follow. Trying to be a lukewarm rider on the fence just gets you vomited out of God's mouth. In the world of God and His followers, you have become insane and confused.

8 posted on 08/11/2018 9:09:09 PM PDT by chuckles
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