A Most Deadly Drug.
by YahChannah Wolf

Lust, regardless of the object it is directed to, can be a deadly snare for human beings. Most often when people think of ‘lust’ they perceive it as sexual in nature, but that is the tip of a very huge iceberg.

Here is the top of this iceberg, which floats visibly, recognizable so as to be avoided.

We do not go lusting after our neighbors possessions, his wife, his house, his cars, do we?

However in what do we delight ourselves, what is our pleasure?

Do have an intense longing, a need, a desire? What is the object of that desire?

We read in Numbers of lust, of desire, of intense longing. They were being fed, by the very hand of YHWH, you might say, but they longed for flesh.

Was it wrong for them to want to eat quail… no, it was not.

Were they not really longing for Egypt? What are the things, we as those coming out of Xtiandom may long for?

Do you not miss those friends you left behind? Do you still long for the food you ate while in the clutches of Xtiandom, the ham, the pork chops, the lobster?

All below the water line, not seen, but a deadly cold chunk of ice that must be avoided if we are to remain afloat.

Num 11:4-6

4 And the mixed multitude that was among them began lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:

6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

Is it wrong to eat fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic? No, of course it is not but grumbling against the way YHWH decides to take us is very wrong.

Ps 78:17-18

17 And they sinned more against Him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

18 And they tempted Elohiym in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

The Psalmist says the sin was in provoking the Most High.

We see, we want, we desire and when we cannot have, we take. Those are real dangers to the one who would seek to walk righteously before his Elohiym.

Prov 6:25-26

25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her entice you with her eyes.

26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Gen 3:6

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit, and ate, and also gave to her husband who was with her; and he too ate.

We see the results of the woman in the garden lusting after the only thing denied her by YHWH. You and I both live with her inordinate desire to this very day.

Gen 6:1-2

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

2 That the sons of Elohiym saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took wives of all which they chose.

The sons of Elohiym were led into sin by that which their eyes beheld.

Josh 7:20-21

20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against YHWH, Elohiym of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

21 When I saw among the spoils a good Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them. I took them; and, look, they are hid in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver is under it.

My goodness Achan reasoned, these things will just go to waste or someone else will get them if I leave them here. Hmmm, if I tell Joshua about them, he will take them for himself and his family. I will take them and keep it a secret and hurt no one.

Is there something inherently evil about fine garments, gold or silver? No these are not evil, the evil and sin came from disobedience.

Eccl 5:10

10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Shlomoh seems to be trying to tell us that when lust overtakes us, we will seek and when we gain, we will seek for more, an inordinate desire to possess.

David describes pride as a chain with which we may be bound. Let us not be led into the false premise of a man’s worth is determined by the suit on his back or the platinum card in his wallet.

Ps 73:6

6 Therefore pride encircles them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

The ‘Great’ King of Babylon was lifted up in pride and did not give honor to the Almighty YHWH of hosts but said ‘I’ did all this.

Dan 4:30-31

The king spoke, and said, Is this not Babylon the great, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

YHWH’s answer to him was:

31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from you.

LSD, a most deadly drug, for Lust, when it is conceived, leads to Sin and Sin gives birth, to death.