Camouflage: Hidden Behind Unspoken Words--Manipulation

Judges 16; Luke 20:22-23

Weekend Meditation:  Camouflage: Hidden Behind Unspoken Words--Manipulation

Witness devise throughout the Bible: H2803 chashab to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count, to think, account, to plan, devise, mean

Isaiah 8:10, 32:7, 66:1; Jeremiah 49:30, 50:45, Ezekiel 38:10-11; Psalm 35:20, 36:5, 58:3; Proverbs 9:19-20; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Esther 8:5; Daniel 11:25; Acts 4:25, 7:49

This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living.  This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.  


The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it .  Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord, your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it. 

​304. You shall tell the story of the Exodus on Passover --Exodus 13:8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

305. You shall not leave your place to work on the Sabbath --Exodus 16:29 See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

306. You shall remember the Sabbath day to sanctify --Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

307. You shall not do any work on the Sabbath-- Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

308. You shall set free your Hebrew bondsman in the seventh year --Exodus 21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

309. You shall marry your Hebrew bondwoman or designate her for your son --Exodus 21:8-9 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

310. You shall assist in the redemption of a Hebrew bondswoman --Exodus 21:8-9

311. You shall not sell a Hebrew bondswoman --Exodus 21:8

312. You shall not withhold food, clothing, or marital relations from a Hebrew bondswoman --Exodus 21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

313. You shall leave your land untended and unharvested in the seventh year --Exodus 23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

​ Fiveamprayer we have to be aware of manipulation, as a issue in taming our tongues.  This can be with phrases that are said to coerce someone to do some action.  For example, sounding frustrated with the large number of boxes in their hand while standing at the closed door.  Instead of asking for some one to open the door--they may make many noises of protest from the weight of the packages.  This is not a problem for most people, yet this is manipulation.  ​The more serious cases could be favors that are to the detriment of the giver, or trickery that leads to their down fall as we see with Delilah and Samson.  This dishonest way of communication often preys on emotions to find which seems as a weakness but is actually overriding boundaries.  Often the manipulator has a total disregard for others, for things that are important to them.  This is a focus on what the manipulator needs or desires. 

​ In paying attention to find out is there is a manipulator operating--some of the tools used can be non-verbal, flattery, emotional blackmail--all to obtain control over your emotions or actions.  This type of person will have you doing things to their benefit or favor even when you would not normally do these 'favors' or actions.  Being aware of how they could operate because it is not direct, rather indirect or easily misunderstood yet the context of the conversation steers the person or situation into their favor.  ​​To here more of this click here.​