The etymology of the word leverage is the combination of the English/French base meaning “polished or smooth” and the Greek suffix ikos meaning “at”. Careful review of the Bible reveals that the tongue, manipulation, skin, roads and rocks are all referred to as “smooth”. All articles which may be leveraged to achieve an outcome. Even the rocks which David collected for his meeting with the Philistine were said to be smooth. I guess he was planning on employing some granite leverage to Goliath’s forehead, polishing him off or smoothing out the road before them by removing this aberration.
Archimedes (287BC-212BC), a Greek engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor and astronomer said “give me a lever long enough, I’ll move the world” was seventeen years old when the Septuagint was completed in the Greek language. Finally, Greek scholars for the first time could read the Hebrew Scripture in their own language. What a glorious time that would have been. I often wonder if these gifted, learned men were curious enough about God to have sought out the text for examination. How livid would historians become if I perhaps recommended that his inventions were leveraged by an encounter with the Truth of the Most High God?
Are they perhaps too polished to accept the rough edges of unsolved hypothesis. They seem to have swallowed the Evolution thing, replete with “still missing link” and a slew of unsupportable conjecture. Perhaps they wish to smooth out their own guilt for the sins of an ungodly, atheistic attempt to free themselves from the absolute certainty of eternal judgment. I prefer to leverage my future by believing the truth of the Lord instead of hiding among the rocks seeking solace from the Wrath of the Lamb. I pray in love that those opposing the Lord have a change of heart, repent and receive His infinite mercy and grace. But excluding that divine work, Lord may Your enemies be scattered and uprooted and their mockery silenced through righteous sentencing. Praise Jesus.