Decoder Terminal
FOOT FROM BEING TAKEN
EXTRACTION PREVENTION — SNARE AVOIDANCE
CONDITIONSpecs
hebrew imagery
lekod (to be caught/taken)
psalm parallels
Psalm 91:3, Psalm 124:7
trap vocabulary
Snare, pit, net throughout Proverbs
eschatological warning
Luke 21:35 — the day as a trap
Intelligence Brief
The image of the foot being 'taken' or 'caught' is hunting vocabulary — the snare, the trap, the pit. Proverbs is filled with trap imagery: the adulteress's house is a trap (7:23), the wicked fall into their own pits (26:27), the fear of man is a snare (29:25). To have one's foot kept from being taken is to walk through a world full of traps without being caught. This requires divine protection, not merely human caution. Psalm 91:3 promises deliverance 'from the snare of the fowler.' Psalm 124:7 celebrates escape: 'Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.' Christ warns that the last day will come 'like a trap' on the unprepared (Luke 21:35). Those in Him are kept.
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