“They reel
to and fro, and stagger like a drunken
man, and are at their wits' end.” (Psalm 107:27)
There are
several words based around the three
letter word ‘wit’ … witless, witness, to wit, nitwit, wot ye
not, “what
a wit he is!” … and all to do with knowing, knowledge, reason and clarity of mind.
To have
‘wit’ is to have something more then
mere knowledge.
To call
someone a nitwit is to say they
don’t have the wits of a nit!
Legal
documents regularly use “to wit” to
draw attention to details that follow.
If someone
is witless, they don’t have clue!
We say “Keep
your wits about you!”
To say “wot
ye not” is to say “Don’t you
have any knowledge or memory or reason?”
The word
“witness” is made up of the suffix of
‘-ness’ meaning ‘having the quality of’ and the root … ‘wit’
As s
Christians we are called to be witnesses
… of what? John the Baptist came to bear witness of Christ
(John 1:15) …
that is, attesting to and having the quality of clarity and knowledge
about
Christ.
In the Old
Testament, God Almighty, the LORD God,
had various things done to bear witness of him … such as
pillars and
ewes and so on (Genesis 21:30; Genesis 31:52).
Back to a
‘drunken man being at his wits end’ …
that staggers and reels … he is ‘unconscious’ as it were as to where he
is, has
no knowledge of anything, reason and certainly no clarity, and as they
say ...
he is out on his feet … almost brain dead.
Number 11:
“Baptism of fire”
“I indeed
baptize you with water unto repentance:
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not
worthy to
bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with
fire:” (Matthew 3:11)
The world
uses ‘baptism of fire’ for someone
undergoing or undertaking something for the first time and all the
unknowns,
problems and difficulties that go with it.
Christians
ignorantly use this phrase, not knowing
it is about someone going to hell … with real flames of fire (Luke
16:19-22,23-24) …
and then the unbeliever going into the lake of fire (Revelation
19:20).
Baptism
with the Holy Ghost is to place an
unbeliever into Christ (Romans 6:3;
1 Corinthians 12:13). Holy Ghost
baptism
and fire baptism are two events separated by about 3,000 years.
Number 14: “Beating the air”
Harley
Hitchcock
January
2023
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