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We Are Like A Bird Escaped From the Snare of the Fowler
The Christian’s Escape
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The trap is broken, and we have escaped. (Psalm 124:7) Use of the word ‘like’ here means we are reading a metaphor. It is a metaphor of salvation through Jesus. Every person born on earth is born into the snare of the fowler. Snared by sin, death, and corruption. John says the whole world is under the control of the wicked one. (1 John 5:19)
Apostle Peter tells us in Jesus that we have ( having) escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (1 Peter 1:4) Peter uses the past tense, as he does when he says by the stripes of Jesus, you were healed. (1 Peter 2:24) He is talking about a done deal, an accomplished fact. (Romans 8:21)
…that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. The creation is under bondage to corruption. The children of God are free from it.
The Greek word corruption is translated: deterioration, decay, rottenness, perishing, decomposition. The corruption in the world includes every type of disease, germ, and virus (anything that destroys). Left to itself, everything in the world decomposes into nothing over time. Including our bodies. If Christians have escaped the…
