By: Frank J. Verderber
02/18/2018
Self-Radicals and Lone Wolves are new jargon; associated with Muslim jihad activity. However, the reader need not take a course on the middle east to understand what some words or phrases mean. The reader needs to reflect on common sense and Biblical principles of discernment.
Of the Bible verses that reflect a commonsense approach to recognizing subterfuge and evil, Jesus gave the reader insight for discernment. Here are a few:
- “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves [Mt.7:15]. A pithy statement if ever there was one. Who cannot understand this simile? It reflects a pictorial in the mind that one would find both humorous and frightening; like that of the fabled Red Riding Hood.
- “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. … “Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves? [Mt.10:16; Lk.10:13].
- ?… And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. …? [Is.:13:22]. Isaiah?s reference is of Babylon; the city that represents the system, which is with us today.