TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: October 16, 2026. Lesson 205-2026. Proverbs 30:32-33. Before You Say Another Word

Episode Date: October 16, 2026

In this edition of Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart conclude Proverbs 30 with Proverbs 30:32–33 and one of Agur’s most practical instructions: “lay thine hand upon thy mouth.” Press milk and you get butter. Press a nose and you get blood. Press anger and you get strife. The lesson is simple but powerful: once foolishness has begun, wisdom can still intervene before the next words make matters worse. Agur does not focus on resolving the argument; he teaches us how to prevent its escalation. Sometimes the wisest thing you can do in the next thirty seconds is simply stop talking. Lesson 205-2026 Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting MannaNation.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961 MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

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Faith Friday. However, we have only two verses remaining in Chapter 30, the book of Proverbs. So I would like to complete chapter 30 today so that we can begin on Monday with chapter 31. So as the pace that we're going, I anticipate that we will complete the book of Proverbs in the next three weeks. Although we are temporarily suspending our faith Friday message, we are not suspending our observance of the Lord's supper. And so we invite you to participate with us in the Holy Communion Service. So please have bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine available as we go to the Lord's table for this sacred meal. Wherever you are in the world, would you please join with multitudes of Christian brethren worldwide in saying aloud?

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Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to God. the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for you, preserve your body, and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you

and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world and blessed are those who are invited to the Married Supper of the Lamb. The sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on Him by faith with Thanksgiving

that Christ died for you. Heavenly Father, we thank you for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of Jesus Christ, your son and our Savior. And for assuring us in these holy mysteries that we are living members of the body of Christ and heirs of your eternal salvation, your eternal kingdom. And now, Father, to you, to Christ our Lord, and to the Holy Spirit, be honored and glory. now and forever. Amen. Amen. Well, students, today we've arrived at the last two verses of Proverbs chapter 30. So please open your Bibles, Proverbs 30, verses 32 and 33. I'm going to be reading the King James and Septuagint today. Let's start the King James, verse 32. If thou has done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood, so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strive. Subtujant, if thou abandon thyself to mirth and stretch forth thine hand in a quarrel, thou shall be disgraced. Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if thou wring one's nostrils, there shall come Mount Blood. So if thou extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strife. So it's slightly different reading there, but we'll get in that here in just a few minutes. So Proverbs 30 versus 32 and 33, they close Agar's section, close the chapter, and it closes them with

instruction about what, your mouth. And it's a fitting in for this particular man, because at the beginning, Agar opened by confessing that he was more brutish than any man and that he hadn't learned wisdom. And now he closes by telling his hearer when to stop talking. And the two verses work together as a single unit, verses 32 and 33. Verse 32 gives the command. If you've exalted yourself or if you've devised evil, cover your mouth. And then verse 33 gives the reason. Doing so through, three images built on a single Hebrew word. The Hebrew of verse 33 contains the word

meats. It means pressing or squeezing. It appears three times in this verse. Each applied to a different meaning. If you press milk, you get butter. If you press a nose, you get blood. If you

press anger, you get strife. Same action. three substances, three predictable results, and the instruction in verse 32 is the one that interrupts the sequence. It says, take your hand off the thing and put it over your mouth. And so our lesson today will examine the two failures that are teacher agor names here, the gesture he prescribes, and the mechanism his closing image describes. Rick starts us off with his examination of verse 32.

All right. Thank you, Doc. If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth. So agron names two conditions. And they're different from each other. The first is self-exaltation, if thou has done foolishly in lifting up thyself. The Hebrew verb is Navajo. And it is linked to a root Hebrew word that the morally senseless fool in Proverbs met in verse 22.

The other word here speaks of lifting yourself up. So the first condition is if you had played the fool by exalding, yourself. The second is deliberate scheming. Or if thou hast thought evil, meaning to devise, to plot, to think of a plan that's evil. It's wicked. This describes intentional planning. It's not passive impulse. This is intentional planning to do something that's wrong. So, One failure concerns the self, lifting yourself out, self-exaltation. The other one concerns a target. You're going to hurt someone.

You're going to damage someone or something for some organization. One man or woman has inflated himself or herself. The other person has formed a plot against someone. These are the two things that Agar mentions. And then he describes the same remedy for both. Two different things, but the remedy is the same. Lay thine hand upon thy mouth. Put your hand over your lips.

What a simple instruction. It's a very physical instruction. Agar, notice Agar doesn't say, now pause and reconsider. Pray and repent. Reflect upon your motives. Now he says, put your hand on your mouth and don't say it don't say what's ready to come out of your mouth do not permit wrong words to come from your lips it's a gesture that is more common in the bible that you would first realize as i prepared for this lesson i realize how many times god tells us to put your hand on your mouth

Job 21, verse 5, mark me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth. Job 40, verse 4. Behold, I am vile. What shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Micah said in verse 16, they shall lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf. In every case, the gesture marks the moment that a man or woman stops talking because he or she recognizes at that moment something's not right. I'm about to say something I will regret. So the man or woman who has already begun to talk and act foolishly can't do anything. Can't do anything wiser in that moment to prevent the next sentence from fullishly.

flying off their lips. The only thing that they can do is cover their mouth. This is the instruction. If you find yourself doing the wrong thing, don't aggravate it, don't deepen it, don't worsen it by more words. The words are what are going to get you in deeper trouble. Right.

And I wish this was a lesson I'd learned many years ago. when I was very young, Rick, because sometimes I would say things and then build on it. And so Agar is speaking from wisdom here. And the significance of verse 32 is where Agar places the intervention earlier than most instructions about conflict resolution. So the verse is addressing a man who has already messed up. He's already failed. The self-exaltation has already happened. The scheme. has been devised. Agar does not address the failure. He addresses

the next 30 seconds after the failure. Now, when you think about it, this is a strikingly practical approach. If you think about it this way, the damage of a sin is frequently multiplied by what

follows it rather than contained in the act itself. All right? So Proverbs 29-11 says, a fool uttereth all his mind, but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. And the Hebrew word translated in 29-11 means he stills it, he quiets it, he holds it back. In other words, maybe he's putting his hand over his mouth. So the wise man's distinction is not that he feels nothing.

It's that interval he places between what he feels and the expression of that. Back in Proverbs 1728, we read even a fool. even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. A fool who says nothing is indistinguishable from a wise man, because the folly becomes visible only when he speaks. And in the New Testament, the Apostle James develops that principle at length and makes it the test of genuine Christian faith. It says in James 126, Rick,

If any man among you seem to be righteous, seem to be righteous. I like that word, seem to be righteous. And bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart. That man's religion is vain. And then James 119 supplies the ordering a few verses prior. Let every man be, what, swift to hear, slow to speak, and then slow to wrath. It fits right in with this passage today, Rick.

Yes, no, the next one, don't. Verse 33. This verse was fascinating to study. Surely the turning of milk bringeth forth but and the wringing of a nose bringeth forth blood. So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strike. What is Edgar teaching us here? The English, the King James English, uses three different words, turning, ringing, forcing, churning butter, wringing the nose, forcing, you know, heated words. But that, the English, I think, obscures what the Hebrew is saying.

So the Hebrew language uses one word three times. And this is where I think the King James translators missed it. The noun, the Hebrew noun, meets, it refers to pressing, to squeezing, to forcible compression applied to something. It's not just touching. I mean, it's forceful, it's pressure. So here's the way this verse would read in a literal English translation. The pressing of milk produces butter. The pressing of the nose produces blood.

The pressing of anger produces strife. Again, the King James translators used, they use churning, ringing, forcing. But the actual Hebrew uses the same word, pressing. Three different ways, but the same action, pressing. three substances, butter, blood and strife.

Okay, one action, three predictable outposts. And then there's a second wordplay here that we should mention using the Hebrew. The word, the Hebrew word for nose is just APH, but it's also the, the ordinary Hebrew words for anger. As we've talked about this before, the Hebrew phrase, when somebody is an angry person, argumentative person, it's a man of nose. The phrase man of

nose means this is a person that has their nostrils flared out because they're angry, huffing them, and their nostrils are flared out. And so the Hebrew used, This is that phrase, okay? Proverbs 29, verse 22, An angry man is translated as a man of nose. So the second and third clauses are built on the same word. Follow along here where I'm going with this. The Hebrew word F, which means nose.

You press the F, the nose, you get blood. you press the the apophon and you which is the stripes the words you get strife agger has constructed a sentence in which the physical

and the emotional are named with one word so agger's closing argument here does not require an explanation to anyone who has ever made butter or had a bloody nose or been caught up in a heated argument. Right. He makes it pretty simple, actually.

And verse 33 rests on what those three images really established together. So let's look at the first one. The first image is productive. Cressing milk produces butter. Now, today, most young people, kids don't even know where butter comes from. But Rick, have you ever churned butter? You have to work the milk. I mean, I've done it as a kid, and it's amazing.

I mean, it really is amazing how milk becomes butter. It's fascinating the way it happens, and it comes by turning the will. Milk, something genuinely useful. And that pressing of the milk is unnecessary means. Nobody makes butter by just letting the milk sit, right? It has to be worked. but if you work the milk, it produces butter. Now, the second image, though, is harmful.

Pressing a nose produces blood. If you ever been in a schoolyard fight, you've probably experienced that. An injury, and most of the time, an entirely avoidable one, really. Nobody needs to do this, right? And then you got the third image is the one Agar is actually teaching.

That's the point he's trying to get across here. If you press anger, if you push on anger, just as milk produces butter and hitting somebody in the nose produces blood, if you push on anger, you're going to get strife. Strife is another level of anger. And the sequence of the images matters. By beginning with butter, agger establishes that pressure, you can always count on it. Pressure reliably produces a product. Then he applies it to a nose, where damages the product that results in blood, then to anger,

where the damage spreads beyond the two people involved. Really, strife is more than just animosity between two people. When anger develops strife, it affects everybody around you, everybody around both parties. The underlying claim and principle that we're looking at here, that I believe, trying to get across is sustained pressure yields a predictable result. And the result is determined by the substance rather than by the intention of the one applying it. Think about that. I know.

Proverbs 26, verse 20, where no wood is, there the fire goeth out. So where there is no tailbearer, the strike ceasers. Proverbs 151, A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir off anger. Remember those lessons many months ago? Proverbs 17, verse 14. The beginning of stride is as when one let it out watered.

Therefore, leave off contention before it be meddled with. Throughout the book of Proverbs, we have been taught that words either inflame or calm things down. When there's a difficult situation, if you can't say the right words, put your hand over your mouth. If somebody says, what are you doing? I'm doing what Agar says.

I want to say something right now, but Agar is telling me, put my hand over my mouth. Because something's going to come out of your mouth. It's either going to calm things down, or it's going to heat things up. That's the lesson that we're being taught here. Proverbs 17, 14, before it be meddled with,

it describes stopping before the quarrel breaks open, which is precisely where Agar's hand over the mouth belongs. Stop the fight before it explodes. we've all been in situations where you can feel attention building in the room and you know somebody's going to say one more

thing and the fight is going to be on. Yeah. It only takes that one more statement and it's like lighting a match and everything catches on fire what Agar is teaching you is your hand over your mouth.

Don't you be the one who says you can't stop something You can't put your hand on somebody else's mouth, but you can put your hand on your mouth. You're only responsible for your mouth. Just remember that. You are only responsible for your mouth. Somebody else says something, ignorant.

That's their problem. You don't have to respond to it. That's right. Romans 12, verse 18, this is the new covenant version of this principle. If it be possible, As much as lie in you live peacefully with all men. That's Apostle Paul's advice. If it's possible, if it's in you,

be a peace with all men. Not every conflict is within believers' power to present. But the portion that lies in you is the portion Agar is addressing. is addressing, cover up your mouth. You might not be the one who started to fight, but you don't have to be the one that inflames it. If you can't say the right thing to calm things down, then just cover your mouth and say nothing.

You know what, Rick, I wish Proverbs wasn't so personal. I need to apply this in my life. And I am sure a lot of our students are saying the same thing. There are times I don't need to say, anything. I don't need to have a response. But it's interesting here, Rick, that there's a connection between the two verses that I don't recall us looking at before. It's easy to miss, but it actually unifies this passage. Did you observe that both verses are about a hand?

Verse 32 says, lay a hand to your mouth, right? verse 33 you have three images of something being pressed right to press milk you got to use your hand to bop somebody in the nose you've got to use your hand to escalate anger into strife it's like shoving a fist in someone's face really agger is describing two things that the same hand can do two things that the same hand can do. A hand can be applied to milk and be productive. It can be applied to the nose and create blood. It can be applied to anger.

And, you know, so you got the squeezing, you got the forcing, you got the extracting a result. Or, or you can put a hand over the mouth. The hand is going to do one thing or another. The hand is going to do one thing or another, and the choice determines what comes out. Now, the Septuagint makes the connection explicit by translating verse 32 as, Stretch forth thine hand in a quarrel. I don't know if you notice that or not, Rick. So the Septuagint puts the hand in the fight. It makes the connection.

The translators of the Greek Septuagint saw the connection there. And they put thine hand in the fight. It puts the hand in the fight. And Agar's counsel in the King James puts it over the mouth instead. So, Doc, what image comes to your mind when a man or woman is angry? Yeah, their nostrils are inflamed. They're spread out. But they're also waving their hands.

Yeah. Or they're shaking their fists. or they're pointing their finger. Their hand is moving. And by the way, in body language, a fist or a finger pointing like that represents a weapon in body language. I would believe that

because I've told people, you need to put that thing down. That finger you're pointing in my face. You put that weapon back in your holster because it is a weapon. And it's a very aggressive move. It's the hand. The fight involves the hands.

When the fight is inflamed enough, the hands start punching people, slapping people, the fight is on, okay? It's physical. So can wisdom intervene to prevent an argument from becoming passionately overheated? Every image in verse 33 describes a process. that once, once it begun, produces its result automatically. Let me explain this. You cannot turn milk halfway and get half butter that reverses itself.

Right. Butter will not turn back into milk just because you stop turning it. Once you've punched some, in the nose once you've twisted their snaws all right and it is not going to go back you can't twist it back put it in place the here's the here's the principle the pressing has a threshold once you cross that line the the change has taken place in other words when When you're turning butter, when you're pressing butter, there is a place, there's a line where that milk starts to become butter.

Right. Once you cross that line, it's not going back. Same way with the nose. Once the bleeding starts, you can't undo it. You cannot unstrike a nose. And you cannot recall angry, hurtful statements. the damage is done. And this is the lesson that Agar is teaching us here.

Proverbs 18, verse 21, death and life are in the power of the tongue. James chapter 3, verse 5, behold how great a matter a little far kindle. Apostle James also said the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. It defath the whole body and seteth on fire the course of nature.

and it is set on fire of hell. So the common feature of fire, butter, and blood is in reversibility. None of them runs backers, which is why the Bible counsels us. So consistently that you have to consider, you have to take action before, before the change takes place, you cover your mouth before the damage is done. Not when the damage is in the... That's when it's in progress.

Once it's in progress, you've already done, you've already let something fly out of your mouth. It is smart to just stop at that point. Maybe it's not going to get any worse. But you're not going to undo what you just did. If you don't want milk to be butter, don't even churn it one time. If you don't want somebody's nose to bleed, don't punch them one time. And if you don't want a fight to break out, don't say anything nasty and rude and ignorant.

So Proverbs 1714 says, leave off contention before it be meddled with. Proverse 151 tells us that a soft answer It must be delivered before the escalation Matthew 5 Versus 23-24 The instruction is to lead the gift at the altar And go be reconciled first

Ephesians 4 verse 26 sets the boundary on the duration Let not the sun go down on your wrath Agar is not teaching conflict resolution. He is teaching conflict prevention. And he's saying, pay attention to your hand. The man who has already pressed something has a repair job. The man or woman who has covered his or her mouth has nothing to repair. Just ponder that one. Yeah. If you've already pressed the end, anger with your words.

What you're facing now is a repair job. You've got to fix thatness. If you cover your mouth, you don't have anything to fix. That's right. So, wow, just a general principle in any kind of conflict that you find yourself in. And I would guess that that's mostly in personal relationships, even among people we love. So, all right, let's look at the Septuagint here, Rick. Septuagint has a slightly different take on this.

We're going to dive into it right now. The Septuagint renders the passage, If thou abandon thyself to mirth, and stretch forth thy hand in a quarrel, thou shall be disgraced. Milk out milk, and there shall be butter. And if thou wring one's nostrils, there shall come out in blood.

So if thou extort words, There will come forth quarrels and strides. Now, there are three differences here that deserve attention, and two of them add something the King James leaves implicit. And that is first, the Greek once again names the hand's alternative employment. So whereas in the Maserite text, the King James, the Hebrew, commands the hand to the mouth, the Septuagint describes the hand stretched forth in a quarrel. Now, this is a vivid contrast here.

That hand is doing something. The hand is going somewhere, either over the mouth or into someone's face. All right? That's the difference there. And so secondly, the consequences named. So the King James in verse 32, it simply issues the command and stops. The Septuagint, though, adds, thou shalt be disgraced, disgraced into dishonor. And so that helps connect us back to our previous lesson in verses 29 to 31.

Three things which go well, yea, four, there are coming and going, a lion, a greyhound, a male goat, and a king who commands respect. So the man who stretches his hand into a quarrel loses exactly what those four are possessed. I hope our class is getting this and understanding this. third and most significantly, the Septuagint changes the third clause in verse 33. It says, the King James says, the pressing of anger produces strife. But how does the Septuagint word it, Rick? Septuagin says, if thou extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strides. In other words, if you drag out words.

If you draw them forth by force, what does that mean? How does that apply? The Greek word that's used is ex-elko, which means to drag out, to draw forth, to extract. Now, it has the same physical vocabulary that the verse applies to milk and blood. but the Greek language applies it to speech. Now, the Septuagin's third image is not pressing an emotion. It is pressing a person for words. Here's what, this is what is saying.

The Greek Septuagint describes a man or woman who will not let a matter rest, who keeps questioning, keeps demanding. a response, keeps badgering someone, keeps pushing them until the other party finally says something. Have you ever had that experience where somebody just won't let it go? They just keep coming back with more angry words and they're demanding that you talk about it and you don't desire to talk about it. You're trying to avoid a fight and argument a division, you're trying your best to stay calm,

that they won't give enough. And what are they doing? They're coming back and they're waving their hands, right? They got their hands going and they're jabbing their finger and they're making accusations and they're saying, why won't you talk about this? Why won't you answer me? Why won't you respond?

And your wisdom is trying to avoid it. See, they are pressing you to say something. They won't, well, until you say something, right? So what typically comes out is a quarrel. Because what was extracted under pressure was never going to be conciliatory. When somebody is badgering you, pressuring you with angry words and accusations and all kinds of, hated words, nine times out of ten

comes out of your mouth. It's not going to be flowers and roses and sweet songs. You're going to say something like, would you get out of my face? Would you just shut out? Truthfully, isn't that what we're going to say? See, you've been pressed. This is the teaching you. You've been pressed. You've been forced to say something. when you were trying not to say something,

you were doing the right thing, trying not to say something. But the other party is pressing you. They won't give it up. They won't give it a break. Why? They want to fight. They want an argument.

This is one of the most commonly used tactics of passive, aggressive, covert narcissists. They deliberately provoke their victim to respond with an angry outburst for two reasons. Firstly, they will feed off of the angry emotion from the other person. We call that narc supply. So they press you. That's what Hagrid is talking about.

They're being pressed, forcing you to respond. The narcissist is forcing its victim to respond because they need that negative energy as their narc supply, the narcissistic supply. Secondly, the narcissist will use their victim's angry outburst, spoken out of frustration, as another opportunity to slander that person to others. And the way it usually works, just like this. They'll have their friends, which are called flying monkeys, because these are people that believe anything that this person says about this other person. and they'll say, oh, you know, I was talking to so-and-so,

and I asked him or I ask her a simple question, you won't believe how they blew up in my face. They told me to shut up and get out. I can't believe that they talk to me that way. And everybody there will go, oh, that's just terrible. Why does he talk to you that way? Why does she respond that way? What they don't know is that a narcissist person pushed them to say something.

This is what anger is teaching us here. There's going to be a confrontation. It's going to be an argument. It's going to be strife. So what do we see if we put the King James and Septuagint? Is there any common ground? Yes. They're describing the same failure from two.

different angles. The King James says, do not press your anger. The Septuagin says, do not press another person's words. Both produce strife and both are prevented by the same gesture. Put your hand over your mouth. All right, Doc, I'll let you close it. Well, it's amazing, Rick, how words written nearly 3,000 years ago have such pertinence to today that modern counseling is just catching up with, doesn't it? I mean, it's really amazing. But we've now come to the conclusion here of Proverbs chapter 30, the words of agar, the son of decay. And it's worth taking a moment to observe what this chapter is giving us, because it's unlike anything else in the book. In many ways, it's kind of like looking back on the previous 29 chapters here and saying,

all right, this is how we led this out. It opened with a confession of ignorance, more brutish than any man, and six questions that no one can answer. It affirmed the purity and the sufficiency of God's word and put an injunction and forbade anyone from adding to it. It contained the only prayer in the Book of Provert, and that prayer asked for less rather than more, neither poverty nor riches but an appointed caution. It named four marks of a corrupt generation, moving from the eyes to the teeth. It cataloged four insatiable things, four trackless wonders, four unbearable elevations, four weak creatures that are wise, and four that walk away. And it ends with a hand over the mouth. And there's a fitting symmetry to that.

The man who began by saying he had not learned wisdom closes by telling his hair to stop talking. So Agar's whole contribution is the work of a man who knew the limits of what he knew. And his final instruction is the practical form of that same self-knowledge. The last word belongs to the image you chose. Press milk, you get butter, press the nose, you get blood. Pressing anger and you get strife. The substance decides the output. But the pressing is yours to stop.

Let that sink in. Hold that thought. The pressing is yours to stop. You don't have to respond to people's angry words. There's no law that says you have to respond. you can walk away in wisdom, even if it is just getting in your car and taking a ride. You don't agree with it. Just remove yourself on the heated environment.

So on Monday, we will begin our study at Proverbs 31, the last chapter in the book of Proverbs. And I estimate it will require approximately three weeks of morning manna lessons to complete the chapter. So based on this, we should be done sometime in early November. Years from now, I hope you have fond memories of your spiritual journey through the book of Proverbs over the past year. It has been extremely rewarding to me, as I know, it has been for Doc also. And so, you know, if you hear 10 years from now, even 20 years from now, 30 years from now, depending on your age, I hope you remember this ago. It was one of the best times of my life in spiritual growth. I spent a year with Doc Workhart and Rick Wiles going by and by line through the Book of Progress.

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