Killing the arctic wolf (a picture of sin)

Yesterday, a visiting pastor gave this powerful illustration for the consuming power of sin.

Eskimo Arctic Wolf Hunters
According to tradition, this is how an Eskimo hunter kills a wolf.
First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. He then adds layer after layer of blood until the blade is completely concealed by the frozen blood.
Next, the hunter fixes his knife in the ground with the blade up. When a wolf follows his sensitive nose to the source of the scent and discovers the bait, he licks it, tasting the fresh frozen blood. He begins to lick faster, more and more vigorously, lapping the blade until the keen edge is bare. Feverishly now, harder and harder, the wolf licks the blade in the cold Arctic night. His craving for blood becomes so great that the wolf does not notice the razor-sharp sting of the naked blade on his own tongue. Nor does he recognize the instant when his insatiable thirst is being satisfied by his own warm blood. His carnivorous appetite continues to crave more until in the morning light, the wolf is found dead on the snow!

Gruesome, but poignant.

Thanks, I think!

God bless.

(The text doesn’t do justice to the actual sermon – based on Ecclesiastes) You could actually see people within the congregation wincing and turning their heads, as the illustration was delivered.

Gruesome, but poignant.

Could you say where in Ecclesiastes he preached from?

It doesn't matter if you don't remember, just trying to understand the illustration further.

And I can understand why people were wincing!

Thanks.

God bless.

He used several examples throughout the book that described vanity & vexation etc..
(the wincing was from the vivid description of the illustration given)

It definitely cuts through the sugar coating of sin painted by many

I've had direct and peripheral dealings with Alaskans, Alaska Natives for 30 years and I've never heard this. If it's true, it's a gruesome but pertinent and hopefully convicting example of the result of sin and if it helps even one to overcome sin, I thank you for the post.

This reminds me of Paul telling the Corinthians

1Cr 5:1 It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1Cr 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1Cr 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, [concerning] him that hath so done this deed,
1Cr 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
[b][u]1Cr 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.[/b][/u]
1Cr 5:6 Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Cr 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Cr 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
1Cr 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1Cr 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1Cr 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1Cr 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1Cr 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

These days an Inupiat would just as likely use a 30-06 resting on the back of a snowmachine- Or "snowmobiles" as you all in the lower 48 call them... ;-)

These days an Inupiat would just as likely use a 30-06 resting on the back of a snowmachine- Or "snowmobiles" as you all in the lower 48 call them...

jlosinski I'm laughing my head off. My late husband, who was half Alaska Tlingit Indian had just that--a BSA 30 06 rifle and he kept the freezer filled with venison, nuff said.

While we're touching on Alaska Native culture, I humbly pass on to others something I learned about ten years ago and it's that the term "eskimo" is as offensive to some educated Inupiat, Inuit, Aleut, and Yupik as certain ethnic labels raise the ire of those of other cultures. While I find "eskimo" to be a beautiful lable for a beautiful people it doesn't matter what I think because I'm caucasian, however as my Inupiat clerk informed me (and I have read several concurrences since) evidently it's not so at least to some of the indigenous tribal peoples of Alaska.

My apologies for getting off subject.

Blessings