Proverbs 7 is about adultery, about a person who is fooled by sin.
This woman in Proverbs 7 represents sin.
Sin makes a stench to God.
The greater the sin, the bigger the stench.
It started with lust of the worldly pleasures.
Most people don’t notice how damaging sin is until they are deeply captivated.
Proverbs 7 is Titled: Warnings About the Adulteress
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. v 1
Live and let live they say. God sees things differently. He wants our whole selves to be pure before Him. He wants us to follow His commandments and obey His words.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. v 2
To love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind, soul and strength is our first and foremost command.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. v 3
Keep God’s precepts in the forefront of your mind so you don’t sin
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: v4
How do we get wisdom? How do we learn understanding? By the fear of the Lord and by seeking His face, His word and His strength to keep our flesh under submission to our spirits.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger
which flattereth with her words. v 5
This is a good example of sin compelling us. It’s constantly before us. The sin which so easily besets us. Sin flatters us, it focuses on our humanness, our pleasures. Keeping us from the rewards of the Holy Spirit and from fellowship with God. It will attack us and capture us.
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, v 6
This is one of Jesus’ parables. This is a longing for sin, for the pleasures of the flesh, the world, Remember Lot’s wife. Luke 17:32
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths,
a young man void of understanding, v 7
Sin was looking for weaknesses, those who could be seduced to follow it, those who could be tricked or who had desires sin could tap into to lead astray from the Lord.
Passing through the street near her corner;
and he went the way to her house, v 8
He started to seek sin out. Sin had planted seeds in his mind and heart and he was lusting for sin, for the worldly pleasures.
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: v 9
Away from God, supposedly, when no one else could see what was happening,
when those who might notice were no where to be found.
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot,
and subtil of heart. v 10
Sin did not reveal her heart. She kept her intentions hidden. But she was blatant with the pleasures she offered.
She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: v 11
Sin is always restless. It is never satisfied, always lurking, looking for the next pleasure fix.
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner. v 12
Soon, there is no cloak for the sin. It becomes justified, accepted in one’s life: “God thinks it’s okay now. He understands my heart.”