TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - July 23, 2025 - Proverbs 7:11-13 - The Loud Voice of Temptation

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

In today’s episode, we examine Proverbs 7:11–13, where the character of the seductress is unmasked. Loud, stubborn, and shameless, she represents the unrelenting voice of temptation—bold, predatory, and spiritually dangerous. We discuss how spiritual rebellion often manifests through restlessness, aggression, and a refusal to stay within God’s boundaries. Join us as we uncover the timeless warning hidden in these verses and how we can guard our hearts in an age of constant spiritual ambush.Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.FaithandValues.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’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!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. We are delighted to have you with us for this one-hour weekday Bible study. We gather in a virtual classroom at faithandvalues.com. Our meeting time is 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern time. There are people with us right now from multiple nations and multiple time zones, and we're just so honored that people would set aside an hour to be with us to study the Word of God with us. We're in this together, and even though Doc and I are leading the class, we're learning with you. So we're all students. We're all being taught by the Holy Spirit.

We are in the book of Proverbs, and we're in the seventh chapter, and today we're in verses 11 through 15. Let's pray, invite the Holy Spirit, and begin the study. Almighty God, our dear, precious Father in heaven, thank you for this day, Father. Father, we praise you and worship you and give you glory and honor and thanksgiving. Father, we invite your Holy Spirit to lead this class and illuminate our hearts and minds with knowledge and revelation of your Holy Word. For the glory of your Son Jesus Christ, amen.

Amen. Good morning, everyone. Glad to have you here for our Morning Man of Bible study, where we are in the world from all the way from Australia to Sweden to Brazil to Japan to the Philippines and all across the US and Canada. Good morning. We're in Proverbs, chapter 7, continuing our study. And really, these verses today are a continuation of verses 6 through 10 that we were looking at yesterday. And so we're going to pick back up at verse 11 here and go down to verse 15. So if you've got your Bibles, turn to Proverbs chapter 7. I'll begin reading. I'm reading from the King James and It reads verse 11. She is loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house Now is she without now in the streets and lieth in wait at every corner

So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him I have peace offerings with me. This day I have paid my vows. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee." God bless the reading of his word today. Okay, so we're going to go to another level in studying this woman. Again, remember the woman, yes, in a literal sense, on a surface level, the woman represents a sexually promiscuous woman. We all get that part. But there's much, there are many layers in these Proverbs.

And so our goal is to drill down, to crack each layer and to see the hidden meanings in these Proverbs. So my view is that this woman represents any kind of temptation, lust, pulling people away from the path of righteousness. And it doesn't have to be a female. This can be a male. It doesn't matter. The point is, look, the Bible wasn't written just for men. I mean, this is, you know, you can flip this around. And even if you wanted to say it was a sexually promiscuous woman, you could flip it around and say a sexually promiscuous man. The principles are for all of us.

So don't get hung up on the surface level literal interpretation. I'm gonna start with verse 11 and break this up into parts. The first segment is, well, I'll read the entire verse. She is loud and stubborn. Her feet abide not in her house." This is interesting, how the story's changing.

Remember yesterday, we followed the young man. He's, remember the father, not the father of the young man, the father of wisdom, the father who has wisdom, who's talking to a one of his sons. He's telling the story. He's saying, look, I was at my window. I was peering through the lattice, the covering over the window, a lattice like you would have growing vines in a garden. So they had it over the window.

And he said, I'm peering through the lattice and I can see a crowd of people outside on the street. And there were simpletons, there were fools, a group of fools. And then there was a group of young people. All right, and so, you know, he tells this story and he says, and then the one young man, I watched him leave the group and go down the street and he went to the corner. And then he entered her house. So yesterday was the story of the progression, how this young man in the darkness of night,

so it goes from, you know, the crowd is there at sundown, and now it's early evening and they're having fun and they're laughing and they're talking and whatever, you know, crowd does out on the street at night, but then it gets late. It's dark, it's in the darkness. And this young man now goes down the street. He goes alone.

He goes to the corner. The corner is a place of decision. Which way are you going to go? When you get to a corner, you have to make a decision. Which way am I going? He went into her house. That's where we left off yesterday. this for this proverb is is describing What's going on in the house? Verse 11 she is loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house So We're getting a picture painted here, this immoral woman's unruly, defiant, unsubmissive

character. She rejects all proper decorum and rules and social behavior. She's described as loud. She's noisy. She's clamorous. Ever been around loud people? Sure we have. She's loud. It's just her way. She's boisterous. But what is the meaning? Why does the Bible tell us she was loud? Her loudness speaks of her lack of modesty. She did not have a quiet decorum. did not have a quiet decorum. She was loud. She wanted to draw attention to herself in an inappropriate way, in an audacious way. Now you contrast her loud, boisterous demeanor with the Bible's description of a godly woman, a quiet spirit, a gentle spirit, a gentle demeanor, a virtuous woman. If she has a quiet spirit, she's not loud and boisterous. So look at the contrast. The godly woman has a quiet, gentle spirit.

The ungodly woman has a loud, boisterous spirit. What's this telling us? You can discern. We're being taught how to discern people that we meet. Yes. Am I saying that everybody who's loud is is sinful? No, that's not what I am saying is that this is not a woman who had a gentle spirit, because a gentle spirit only comes from the Holy Spirit. Not only was she loud, but she was stubborn. So the mention of stubbornness says that she was unruly.

She refused to be controlled. She was in open defiance of authority, of morality, of any rules and regulations. She's stubborn. The Holy Spirit desired us to know this, that she was stubborn. She was loud and she was stubborn. Do the two go together? Well, usually. That's something to watch for, isn't it? I'm thinking of some, Doc, some of our most unruly past employees were allowed. Hadn't thought about that, but yeah, there is a pattern there. There's something to watch for now. But this is a woman, her inner rebellion makes her dangerous because she actively operates outside the boundaries of established order,

outside the boundaries of moral principles. She's loud and she's rebellious. She doesn't stay within the lines. In fact, she likes to cross the lines. Her loudness suggests brazenness and a lack of shame. Yes. You can have two people commit the same sinful act. One is full of shame and the other one isn't.

Guess which one's closer to God, the one who has shame, because they're like, I did something wrong and the shame comes on them. This woman had no shame because her conscience has been seared. She's loud, she's boisterous, she's stubborn. So in my view, Doc, these character traits, loudness and stubbornness are marks of folly, of foolishness. and stubbornness are marks of folly, of foolishness. They're indicators that this is a person to avoid.

Right. So her moral, her lack of moral restraint, both in her speech and her will. See, the stubbornness is her will. But this lack of moral restraint in her speech and her will makes her aggressive in pursuing victims. Right. She's not...this is a really important distinction. She is not patiently waiting for them.

She is actively aggressively pursuing them. That's right. There's something else about her loudness. It speaks of her inner chaos. Yeah. It speaks of her. And that's interesting, that word loud there in the Hebrew group is the word hama. And that word means turbulent like in a storm. Okay. Like there's a turmoil. It's not just, you know, it's a higher in volume, but that there is a storm that's underway. That's how it's used in other places. It's interesting, Doc.

I, you know, I'm thinking of that quote about Donald Trump. Years ago, a man waiting to do a professional photographic session with him saw Mr. Trump coming down the hallway and there was a crowd of people around him. Admire critics, people trying to get his favorite, you know, just commotion. And when he got into a room alone with Mr. Trump, he says, how do you operate in such a storm? And Mr. Trump got up close to him and looked him in the eyes and said, I am the storm. Okay, now think about that.

Think about what we're saying here. Does this scripture describe Donald Trump's personality? I don't know. He's loud. He's stubborn. He's a storm. This person, her loudness means there was chaos wherever she went. Right. She disturbed, she disturbed the order. She disturbed peace. Wherever she goes, she disturbs the peace. You know people like that? Things are quiet, everything's okay.

Suddenly they enter the room and what happens? Chaos. Yes. Chaos. Okay. That's that inner spirit. Yes. Chaos. Okay. That's that inner spirit, this restless, stubborn spirit. They're stubborn, they're loud, they bring chaos. But it speaks of their inner moral decay. Their self-will and defiance have taken priority over humility and submission to godly principles. Yes. Her brazenness is a sign of a hardened conscience, no longer sensitive to shame or propriety. She's unruly.

She just barges her way in. When she comes in the room, she takes control. She's rude, she's crude, you know. This is the impression I get of this woman. She's unruly. But her external unruliness is a, that's the external manifestation of her internal subtle heart. She's cunning. So let me get to…this is interesting. All right, so now he goes, her feet not abide not in her house.

She's got a big mouth. She's unruly, she's stubborn, and her feet don't live in her own house. Abide means live. Right. This big mouth, unruly, stubborn woman has feet that don't live in her own house. What in the world is the Bible saying about this? How could your feet not live in your house? I mean, I understand putting your shoes outside on the porch, but you don't put your feet out there. Let's talk about, let's figure this out, okay? This segment

focuses on this immoral woman's restlessness, her uncontrolled nature, which constantly leads her away from her proper domestic spear into the public spaces where she actively seeks out victims. Her feet abide not in her house. It indicates her restless, uncontrolled nature. She's not content to be in her house or in a proper place. She's not content, she's gotta go. She's gotta get out there where she can do her evil, where she can entice people to sin. So this speaks of a deliberate rejection of her assigned place within her home and a constant desire to be out in public, actively enticing, suggesting

illicit behavior with other people. The house represents home. It's not a warehouse. It's not an office. This is a house. And what is supposed to be in a house? Order, safety, privacy, proper roles in the family. Yes.

But all of this, Doc, she has abandoned all these things because she desires chaos. She doesn't, her rebellion makes her reject order. What is rebellion? The rejection of order. Yes. The rejection of order. Yes. She doesn't care about safety. She's out in the streets. She doesn't care about privacy. She flaunts it out in public. She doesn't care about her proper role

of what it should be in the home. All this she abandons for the sake of her desire for chaos and transgression. So her restlessness. And she can't keep it at home. She has to spread it around. She has to make that commotion everywhere else. She has restless feet. Her restless feet drives her to leave the house. And where was her house? On the corner.

So she's driven by her restless feet to go into the streets, to go to the corner looking for what? A person with weakened moral character at that moment, at that moment, who is at the crossroads. The young man was walking. He didn't run, he didn't skip, he didn't jump, he walked down the street. If you had seen him walking, there would have been no thought that anything was wrong. You might have said, why is he out here so late at night?

But he knew where he was walking to, and he got to the corner, and he knew to make a decision whether to go on, make a turn. Her restless feet takes her to the corner looking for people in this situation. Yes. What I get from that, Rick, is if you go looking for sin, sin's already looking for you. You got it doc. It's out there in the corner looking for you. Yeah. Say I knew you were coming.

Didn't know your name but I knew somebody'd be here. Yeah and she says that in this passage. So her feet abide not in her house. She's a predator. The bear leaves its cave to do what? Go look for something to eat. The lion does it. So she leaves her house in search of a victim. She's looking for somebody who is in a weakened state, in a morally or emotionally weakened state. They don't go after somebody who is at their peak performance at that moment. I'm talking about emotionally, spiritually. They have to find somebody who has been weakened because it's a vulnerable prey.

Lots of times you see, Doc, with animal herds, when they're being pursued by like a lion or tiger, what do they do? They sacrifice the weakest member of the herd. They abandon the weakest one. You'd think, hey, protect it. No, they abandon the weakest one because the predator will go after the weakest one and the rest of the herd can keep running. So predators know this. Predators don't search for the strongest one, they search for the weakest one. Now you say, wait a minute,

I know strong people who've, who have gotten into trouble. Yeah, they were systematically weakened over time. The attack didn't come until they were weakened. That's the principle here. She's looking for somebody who's in a weakened state. She's looking for somebody who's in a weakened state. And this young man is making himself available. So her feet are restless because her heart is unrestrained. She has no self-control. She has no proper sense of duty.

Her restless feet are a manifestation of her restless heart, her lack of spiritual peace. And so the lack of inner peace drives her exterior feet to go looking for something, somebody. What is she doing? She's going after a soul to suck the energy out of that soul because her soul is empty. She's going to suck the energy out of this victim's soul because her soul is empty. Now I'm starting to get into covert malignant narcissists, because that's what they are. They're soul suckers. Right. They're going after people. They need a victim. So, people like this are constantly on the move,

always seeking, and not only seeking, but creating opportunities for somebody to sin. They'll set it up. They'll create the atmosphere. Her restless feet speak of moral straying. She's not satisfied to stay in one place. She's not confined by boundaries. She doesn't know boundaries. There's, oh, now I'm back to narcissism. Narcissists don't respect boundaries. Narcissists actually resent boundaries. They want to get into your space.

So the godly woman, the virtuous woman that we read about in Proverbs, her spear of influence is her home. The godly woman is the queen of the home. She brings godliness to the home, to the family. This woman doesn't like to stay in her home. She likes to go into the streets, not to spread godliness, but ungodliness. So it's a warning to us to avoid restless, uncontrolled people that are constantly seeking satisfaction outside of the established order, outside of the moral boundaries. And again, her constant movement and her presence in public spaces speak of her active pursuit of victims and the lack of stability in her own life. Right.

If you want to see this, I'm not recommending you do it. I'm just saying if you said, oh, I gotta see this in real life. Well, just go to your local bar tonight around 11 p.m. You will see loud, boisterous people in public places with no moral restraint. You wanna see it in real life? Just go to your local bar or nightclub. Watch them when the doors close. Just park outside and watch the crowd come out when the bar closes.

Tell me what you see. You will see Proverbs 7-11. That's an example of it. We see, you can go on YouTube, you can go on TikTok, any social media platform, you'll see videos. People, these people are proud of their behavior. They do selfie videos and show everybody that they're loud and boisterous and stubborn. That's right. They're proud of it.

The louder the better. The raunchier, the routier, the better. They get more views on social media. So this type of person has no bridle, no restraints, rejects proper boundaries, and seeks gratification in forbidden places. Let me get to verse 12. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner. Yes I was thinking this morning doctors these verses should be read in the voice of Orson Welles

Now she is without now in the street and lights and wait in every corner I Just hear Do you know that man died? Well, I Can't say he died it because I't know what he knows when he died. But you know, unfortunately, that man was an atheist. I didn't know that. He was an atheist. Not anymore. No, I'm going to think the best and think he got saved before he died.

But if you read his biography, he was an atheist. That's sad. I liked him as an actor. Anyhow, we're not talking about Orson Welles right now. Proverbs 7 verse 12, Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner. Where did her feet take her? Outside the home. To the corner. Now is she without, Now in the streets. She's left the house.

The young man never went in her house, he just at the corner. She went out into the street, she went to the corner. She went to the public square. Because this describes her habitual presence in public, in open areas, constantly seeking opportunities to lead somebody into sin. This paints a, this is a vivid picture of an immoral person's relentless pervasive presence in pursuit of sin.

Now is she without, now in the streets. When is she there? Now. She was in the streets then she's in the streets now. A year from now she'll be in the streets, this person, this spirit, what this represents. Temptation is not confined to a single place. But temptation actively goes out into the world seeking to draw people to it.

Temptation is on the move. Temptation left the house. Temptation went into the streets. I gotta be a wake up call to every one of us. Let's think about that. Temptation left its house, the house of temptation. And temptation, you're not going to the house of temptation, temptation is going out to you.

It leaves its house. It doesn't like to be in its house. It has restless feet. It has an empty spirit, an unsatisfied, rebellious spirit. It doesn't like to be in a house. The house speaks of order. Temptation speaks of disorder. So it leaves the house. It goes into the streets where people are mingling. So there's constant movement and strategic lurking. That's really important to understand. These two people, this woman and the young man,

they didn't just bump into each other. He was looking and she was lurking. Looking and lurking. There's a title for a sermon. Looking and lurking. There's a title for a sermon. Don't look where somebody's lurking. But the moral lesson is, wherever you're looking, Satan's got somebody lurking. So it's not enough to passively avoid sin. We have to choose our paths. We

have to choose the environments that we're in. We have to choose our associations. We have to be constantly aware that Satan is setting a snare. If it takes him one, two, three years, he doesn't care. He's got all the time, he doesn't care. So this woman, she's got a profound sense of discontentment. She has a lack of discipline. She's rebellious. She's not stable. She's restless. She needs external gratification to satisfy her empty soul. And she needs to go home knowing that she robbed somebody else's soul. Yes. They're not satisfied with just getting their own gratification. Their ultimate gratification is robbing somebody else's soul. So this restless, overt, open public behavior is a clear unmistakable indicator of a morally unmoored person who poses a serious spiritual threat.

Avoid these kind of people. Again, you keep contrasting it with the life of the virtuous woman in Proverbs 31. This woman, the un-virtuous woman, is constantly actively seeking opportunities for illicit encounters. She doesn't just passively wait for them. She can't sit in her house. She's aggressive.

She's got to go out and pursue them. And the fact that she does this in the streets speaks of her complete lack of shame. She doesn't care. You say, well, you're going to be shamed for your immoral behavior, and her reply is, whose standard of morality are you talking about? It's not mine. It's yours. I'm not going to be ashamed. I don't accept your morality.

And then we get, she's, and lieth in wait at every corner. Now we see her cunning predatory intent, her strategic positioning. She's actively ambushing unsuspecting victims who have set themselves up for this ambush. She lieth in wait. That means she lurks. Lurking implies cunning, strategic, predatory intent devalued, defiled, she's not ashamed, she's happy, she's proud. That's what she was after. She wasn't after this young man's body, she's after his soul. She has to feed on the energy of his soul. And so she's cunning, she's predatory, she's lurking, she's actively waiting for this opportunity.

And she's at every corner. And lieth in wait at every corner. She just doesn't have one favorite corner. She works them all. You know what that says to me, Doc? This temptation is not, this is not restricted to sex. Right. She's at every corner.

Every corner. Every corner where somebody's got to make a decision about ethics, honesty, morality, whatever it is, she's at the corner. I was saying at the beginning, you miss the meaning of these proverbs if you think this is only about hookers on the street. Because that's the way I always looked at it. It's like I just read it, said, okay, this is a father's advice to his young son, stay away from hookers. Nothing good is going to come from it, okay? That's a surface level interpretation.

There are corners everywhere, and she's present everywhere. How can she be everywhere one time? It means this spirit of temptation is everywhere in the world. It's waiting for those who stray from God's Word. The corners are ambush points. They're strategic points to ambush a victim, to turn a prey into a victim. That's why she goes to the corners.

There's something strategic about it. She knows that there are people there who pause at the corner. What do you do when you get to a corner? You stop, right? Do you just walk across the street when you can come to an intersection? Well, you're going to get hit. What do you do? You stop.

You ponder, you think. These people who are at the corner, they stop when they get to the corner and they think about what they're about to do. Do I do this or do I not? Do I keep going or do I turn around? Do I turn and go another direction? They stop at the corner to think. She knows it. She's temptation. She says, I will meet you at the corner and I will entice you while you're thinking about what you're going to do. thinking about what you're gonna do. That's where she got this young man. He's at the corner. He's thinking about it.

He didn't have to keep going. He knew where her house was at, but he didn't even have to go to her house. She came to the corner. Yes. Because she had restless feet and she knew from experience there's always going to be a young man at a corner thinking about my house. Not the house, but what goes on in the house. But she knew there will always be somebody at the corner, pondering, considering, debating inside their mind and soul.

Do I do it or not? That's the moment of the temptation. See, the young man had not sinned until he got to that point. It was temptation, but because he took the progressive steps, every step made him weaker. He could have turned around blocks away. But by the time he got to her corner, he had weakened himself so

much that he was easy prey. So the corners represent points of decision in a person's life where one is more susceptible to being intercepted by evil. What are these corners in life? Their locations, their social circles, particular times of the day. Everybody knows where these locations are at. But to the devil, they are ambush points. To the devil, temptation lurks at the corners. Seduction is active. It's intelligent. It's a skilled hunter. Yes. You know, it's like, you know, going to Vegas and gambling and thinking you're going to beat the casino.

People do it every day. Right now. Doc, right now, you know, let's see, it's just about 6 a.m. in Vegas right now. Right. And every casino's filled with people right now. And they think they're going to, today's the day and they're the one who's going to beat the house. Every time I go to Vegas, I think to myself,

how do they pay for all the lights? Oh yeah. Because people have gambled their money away. That's how they pay for all the lights. And the lights seduce you too. Well, they're designed for sure. So what's the message about gamblers thinking they're going to be the one, and on that moment, that day, luck is going to hit them and they are going to beat the house.

They're going to beat the casino and walk away with the jackpot. Because the people who are at the corner pondering whether to participate in the sin are telling themselves, I'm going to beat the house today. I'll be the one that gets away with it. But the house always wins. That's right. Okay. So she is a skilled hunter. You're going up against a seasoned, think of like a military sniper.

You're going up against a seasoned, experienced military sniper. And you think you're going to win? This is a person who's taking down people every day. And you're just the next sucker. So we see here there's, what's at the corner, there's danger, there's entrapment, there's inevitability. walked into her carefully planned snare. She conceals the snare. What good is a snare if you can see it?

What good is a trap if you see it? The trap is concealed. And she's subtle until it's time to strike. And then she's destructive. So just remember, the forces of hell are strategic and cunning. They analyze you. Satan's forces analyze you. They watch you. They listen to you. They discern where you are weak and vulnerable, and then they match you up and they conceal the trap. I've said yesterday and other days, it takes two. There has to be a tempter and a tempted. It takes both. Then I have time, we're almost, I should wrap it up, Doc. And I know you've, you have a doc, you're going to the hospital. You know what?

I'm going to stop here. Uh, cause if I start into this one, we're going to go another 10, 15 minutes. And so doc, I, I'm going to end and I want to pray. I want us all to pray for doc right now. Thank you. All right. Do you have surgery in a couple hours? Yes, sir. I'm having cataract surgery today. The first of two. I'm having surgery in my right eye today. Okay. Would appreciate. All right. Let. Let's pray, let's pray. Almighty God, we pray to you now, Father, as our healer and our physician,

our great physician, our doctor. So, Father God, our doctor, we ask you, Father, to be present with Doc Burkhart in the hospital today. That your hand would be guiding the hand of the human doctor and that this operation would be done with perfection, with precision and No complications and the doc would recover quickly father. Yes

We asked us in the name of our Savior Jesus Christ our healer In His name we pray. Amen Amen, I appreciate that Rick and I appreciate everyone praying today. Thank you. Well, we appreciate you being here for Morning Man as well. And tremendous worldwide audience today. We appreciate everyone that checked in from different corners of the world. I get overwhelmed sometimes just considering that there are people in Russia, in Brazil, Australia, Japan that are tuning in to hear the word of God. It encourages me because sometimes in ministry you get discouraged wondering is this message being received?

And I can say, yes, Lord, today it is being received in Jesus' name. So any final words for today, Rick? Well, just a word of encouragement for you, our wonderful classmates and supporters of this organization, and that is that I'm working on a bigger platform and we're going forward with a second platform for children. So we're working on it. I don't want to give out too many details. We are working on it. I just

want you to know that. And probably towards the end of this year, we'll roll it out and you'll get to see it. So we appreciate your prayers and support. Just, you know, Doc and I don't just sit around here all day waiting for the next morning, man. We are, we are working and we're busy and we're building and we're creating and we're learning and learning. Okay. So just know that. All right, Doc, I want you to get going. You got to head over to the hospital.

All right. Thank you so much. God bless you and we'll see on the next edition of Morning Manna.