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Friday, June 4 2010
The English word "woe" originated from an old Anglo-Saxon word which was based on the sound made by a grieving person; hence the word came to mean mourning or suffering. Some English translations use "woe" to translate the New Testament Greek word, pronounced oo-ah-ee, which also originated from a wail made by a sorrowing person; hence it too came to mean mourning or suffering.
Jesus Christ warned the Pharisees, the corrupt "lawyers" who violated the Law (see Violence) that they were supposed to be upholding, as a warning to all hypocrites, of the woes that they are bringing upon themselves.
"11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 11:40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?" (Luke 11:39-40 KJV)
"Woe unto you also, ye lawyers!"
The Messiah then continued with the "woes" that they were going to experience - and why.
11:42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of Herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.11:43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 11:51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." (Luke 11:42-52 KJV)
Fact Finder: In the time just before Christ's return, what will be the "three woes" upon all of those who refuse to repent?
See the study notes for Revelation chapter 9 at Revelation 9-11
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This Day In History, June 4
1760: 22 ships carrying New England planters arrived in Nova Scotia to replace the Acadians.
1783: French brothers Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier made the first public flight of a hot-air balloon.
1800: Construction of the original White House was completed (it was burned by British and Canadian troops during the War of 1812-14 in retaliation for the U.S. burning and looting of the Parliament building in Toronto months before).
1831: The Belgian Congress proclaimed Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg as the first king of Belgium after the southern provinces split with the Netherlands.
1896: Henry Ford took his first car to the roads of Detroit for a trial run.
1920: The Treaty of Trianon. Signed after the First World War by Hungary and the allies (excluding U.S. and U.S.S.R.), it reduced Hungary by one third, and deprived it of access to the sea; it gave Transylvania, the East Banat, and other districts to Romania; Slovakia and Ruthenia to Czechoslovakia; Croatia, Slavonia and the West Banat to Yugoslavia; the Bergenland to Austria.
1940: The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk. Prime Minister Winston Churchill made his famous speech to the House of Commons: "we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..."
1941: Kaiser (the German form of Caesar) Wilhelm II, ninth king of Prussia and third German emperor from 1888-1918, died in exile in the Netherlands.
1942: The 3-day Battle of Midway, the turning point in the sea war in the Pacific during the Second World War, began. The U.S. sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.
1989: Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square were killed by the Chinese army using tanks and machine guns.
