SUPREME SECRET is kept open in Proverbs 21:18 yet is taken in its opposite sense, explains why atheists and theists ALIKE miss vital truths
‘The disobedient become a ransom for the obedient,’ wrote Solomon [who was linked with God] in Proverbs 21:18
Yet Billions of believers who have read it for all these centuries understand it in its opposite sense because they say and teach God killed an innocent person as a ransom for saving the sinners.
This opposite understanding happened in spite of all the helps Jesus himself provided through all his parables which show how the obedient see the disobedient and learn the lessons from them on what to AVOID and ADOPT to better enjoy life. His brother James [who had over 30 years of intimate association with Jesus while others had only 3 years] wrote “not even 99%, but 100% obedience is required” (James 2:10). This is repeated in Revelation 2:7 also. Hence opposite understanding can come only after the last book of Revelation was written as also predicted by Jesus. (biblehub com/john/5-43.htm)
How deeply Proverbs 21:18 is misunderstood
is best understood in following comparisons:
Self-evident truth: Wealth and health of alcoholics are on the decrease which results in a situation that observers take the lesson and avoid alcohol and thus their wealth and health are on the increase.
Reader understands as “Observers who benefit from alcoholics are a ransom for the alcoholics.”
Yet God also PREDICTED a minority of people would understand the truth as it is (Luke 13:24) as they are uninfluenced viewers like “eagle” who finds its food from far above from the sky (Mathew 24:28) and are symbolized as “wheat” in his famous Parable of Wheat and Weeds. (Details HERE) And because of such lovers of truth, the incoming Final Global War “will be cut short”—is a promise from God. (Mathew 24:21, 22, details HERE)
The same is the situation of atheists who have only all WRONG questions
First person in ancient times formulated a WRONG question: “What is the MATERIAL evidence for God THE IMMATERIAL?” It is too obvious that his question is wrong because existence of THE IMMATERIAL can only be discerned and understood, just like we do not tell an egoist “Provide MATERIAL evidence for the existence of ego in you so that we should not be deceived by you” but we discern and understand existence of ego in others. All such WRONG questions were inherited by later atheists without questions being examined. All such inherited knowledge is symbolically described in Mathew 13:33 which compares later phase of this Age as “LEAVENED” as knowledge and questions and excuses are accepted under “LEAVENING” effect.
Similarly, as the ill-effects of global pollution (God predicted in Revelation 11:18), “SWELLING (salos) of the sea” happens which is also predicted by God in Luke 21:25 as part of signs of Last Generation. This is also missed by both theists and atheists alike. (Details HERE)
This is natural to happen in this world where most people create suffering and blame it on God.
Posted Aug 20, 2026, 1:13 AM UTC