What is true discernment, which can rightly be called wisdom?
You presently live in a world that honors itself above all else....
A time when national holidays and birthdays take precedence over sacred days and feasts that honor your Creator, and His promises and blessings upon His obedient children on earth....
An age in which no difference is made between the clean and the unclean, the sacred and the profane.
Weak "Week" Or Not?
Consider the carnal Gregorian calendar, in use by most of the prosperous world's business community, and its "weekend" and related work-free days for example.
The so-called "week" of that calendar is thought to be based upon the religious notion of obeying the sabbath commandment, found in the scriptures called the Bible.
Yet there is not one verse of that scripture that any minister can cite, referring to any particular day of the modern week, to prove which day should be "the sabbath" day of rest.
Of course, resting is the last thing on the minds of most folks today, who are more interested in play, working at home or a business, and assorted other decidedly non-sabbatical activities.
Non-Sabbath "Sabbaths"
There is even dispute between various religions over which day of this week the sabbath ought to be, ranging from the Muslim Friday, to the Jewish Saturday, to the Christian Sunday.
All three of these ancient religions rely solely upon supposed history and tradition as their chief argument in support of their particular version, since true history reveals that the modern week did not exist earlier than the third or fourth century, and therefore cannot be cited before that period in history as being the sabbatical week referred to in scripture.
That week was purely a corrupt concoction of ancient pagan religion which, in violation of scriptural prohibition against this act (Deuteronomy 4:19, 17:2-7), honored and worshiped the sun, moon and planets, dedicating one day to each of the seven most popular idols, or supposed deities, associated with that solar system-based false religious worship (the five planets, in addition to the moon and sun, that were first to rise on the horizon, in order, each successive day).
Thus, in addition to days honoring the Sun and Moon (Sunday and Monday), the other five days honor Mars (Tuesday), Mercury (Wednesday), Jupiter (Thursday), Venus (Friday), and Saturn (Saturday).
Tuesday through Friday were renamed, according to pagan Norse mythological versions of the more ancient Roman and Greek pagan mythical names, for these planets and false pagan idols.
Calendar Confusion
The problem with this entire calendar system is the fact that it mimics, imitates and masquerades as the true scriptural sabbath week, but fails utterly to follow the seasons of the year, during which annual sabbaths and feast/fast observances are also commanded to be observed.
Instead of one calendar, good every year, there are fourteen Gregorian calendars; one for each day of the pagan week in common years and leap years, since the pagan year (which begins in the middle of winter rather than the first day of spring) can start on any day of the pagan week.
That's because a seven day week that began with astronomical observation, and endlessly repeats with no relation to the year and its seasons, conflicts with this real-world actuality.
True sabbath observances, which are always seven day cycles based solely upon the annual feast sabbath observances, can fall on any of these modern pagan week days, just like the first day of January each year falls one (after regular years) or two days (after leap years) later in the carnal calendar week than it did the previous year.
Distinguishing Pure From Impure
Despite the cries of tradition and "history" put forth by the major false religions, this conflict cannot be resolved in favor of their false pagan "sabbath" days, for which there is no scriptural support or proof whatsoever.
All attempts to explain away these facts have led only to confusion and twisting scripture, and the tortuous redefining of words, in a desperate attempt to "prove" the unprovable.
Real wisdom is capable of discerning the true from the false, the pagan from the sacred, the clean from the unclean, and the pure from the impure or adulterated.
In this requirement the world's major false religions all fail miserably.
Take the scriptural commandments against unclean animal meat, and meat tainted with blood, for example.
The world at large takes no notice whatever of these wise prohibitions, resulting in ill health, insanity, disease and death, while it seeks cures from the poisonous drugs, and from the perverse practices, of false medical messiahs.
The misery, suffering and loss of limb, life and productivity, that results from this great evil, is a modern plague and holocaust of unimaginably massive proportions.
Is "Legal" Lawful?
The world is more interested in manners or mayhem (however these are defined in any particular culture), and little about what is spiritually appropriate and permissible, versus that which is spiritually inappropriate and impermissible.
Modern society has its own, often ludicrous and perverse sense of "justice" and "law," in the face of what scriptural Law alone reveals to be the perversion of both concepts.
Nowadays what is considered "legal" would be just grounds for execution, under the far more equitable and reasonable system of Law revealed in scripture.
Discernment is the ability to know the difference between what is truly good, and what is actually evil. Wisdom is the blessing of choosing to use this true discernment daily, to live a blessed life, free from evil consequences or curses.
Rare indeed is the man or woman who has, and uses, both true discernment and inspired wisdom.