What will cause a city to riot?
Soon the rage-filled tradesmen started shouting and "the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia".
"But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,"
Paul sure found out!
In Ephesus idol-maker Demetrius got together his fellow tradesmen and declared, "Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business. You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all." The greedy guy added that the result would be lost business and that the great Artemis would be "dethroned from her magnificence". (Acts 19:23-41)
The crazy thing was that "some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together". What a riot!
Finally, the town clerk quieted the mob threatening, "we are in danger of being accused of a riot in connection with today's events". That would sure have stirred up the controlling Romans!
How foolish riled-up people can act. How much better to be called a fool for Christ!
I Corinthians 1:27
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