Woke has been in the news a lot for the last decade or so. Awake is a major concept in the Bible. What exactly is it, and how does it work? (Ezekiel 12:2)(Proverbs 20:12)(Matthew 13:15-17)
Scenario:
Man is about 25-30 years old. He meets pretty woman. They converse some, and our man is interested. They start dating.
Immediately after meeting pretty woman, our man, he may have created an image in his head of whom he would like pretty woman to be. He would like her to be “less used.” Mostly a virgin. He would like to see the best things in her. When pretty woman talks to him, and tries to hint that she was not these things, or suggest something that doesn’t line up with the false image our man created in his head for her, it is all in one ear and out the other, or it just doesn’t compute. Our man is blind and deaf.
Have you ever heard that masturbation will make you go blind? It is a spiritual blindness. God is love. (1 John 4:8) Girls are pretty and they are nice to look at. How does a man look at them. Marriage is a major life event, and people spend a lot of time thinking about marriage, or things associated with marriage, like sex. How does a man think about it? It is not wrong to be curious. Given someone was lusting, looking to use people physically outside of marriage, only thinking about carnal things, he is separate from God. (1 Corinthians 10:5)
There are a lot of allegories between Faith and Marriage. The Songs of Songs is in the Bible as an Allegory for God’s love for Israel…or the Church. Christ is to man as man is to his wife in authority. (1 Corinthians 11:3) What our Blind and Deaf man in the scenario was doing with the pretty woman, men do that with God all the time. They created a false image of whom they would like God to be, and they project that. When things don’t quite line up with their false image, doesn’t compute, or in one ear and out the other.
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”17 “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. (John 4:16-19)
The Samaritan woman, she must have been quite beautiful. She had five husbands. A lesser man, he may have ended up husband number six. Jesus talking with the Samaritan woman, he had no false perceptions. He saw her for what she was. Talking to her, he may have perceived some things intuitively through his Spirit, and he stated what he received with no doubt and no fear.
Awake is a particular thing in the Bible. Woke would be where someone stole something from Christianity, twisted, and presented back to the public in a corrupt way. Satan was a liar and a thief.