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1 Samuel 7

- After 20 years the Ark comes to the city of Kiriath-jearim and the house of Israel begins to seek after Yah.weh!

- And the Israelites take away all the foreign gods they have!

- Then Samuel prays for the Israelites!

- And he begins serving as judge over the Israelites!

- There is a war between the Philistines and the Israelites asking for help from Yah.weh!

- So Samuel makes an offering and asks Yah.weh for help and Yah.weh answers him!

- And he sends thunder against the Philistines and he throws them into confusion and Israel defeats them!

- And the Israelites pursue them and kill many!

- And Israel recovers its cities and the territory taken by the Philistines!

- And Samuel keeps judging Israel, traveling once a year through the country to do his job and returning to his house in Ramah where he also judges Israel.

- So most of the time Israel opposes Yah.weh and when they are in a bad situation they call for him!

- That’s a strange way to be a special people!

- They have been struck so many times!

- Fortunately, Samuel is their judge and he follows Yah.weh and he has a good relationship with him!

- And Yah.weh listens to him!

- Thus all the time it is a relationship between Yah.weh and one of his faithful servants!

- Without such a relationship between YAH.WEH and ONE MAN, they would have been rejected all at once!

- For one man, Samuel, Yah.weh saved Israel!

- And it is not the only case!

- Once again, it shows that if we don’t do the job, the others won’t do it for us!

 

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1 Samuel 8

When Samuel is old, he appoints his sons as judges for Israel. But they are corrupted and they pervert justice. So because of such a situation the Israelites want a king. But it displeases Samuel who prays to Yah.weh to know what to do. And Yah.weh tells Samuel to do as they want but it means once again they have rejected him but it is the very nature of Israel to constantly reject Yah.weh and serve other gods and they started doing it right at the beginning when they left Egypt. But the Israelites are warned because the king will ask for their sons for his army and Israel will work for the king. And he will take the best of what they have. And they will become his servants. And they will cry out But Yah.weh will not answer them. But as usual, the people don’t listen to Samuel. And they want to become like the other nations.

- End of the story!

- The Israelites will become a nation like the other nations!

- They will have to pay a high price for that!

- Because a human king won’t behave like Yah.weh!

- And Yah.weh warns them!

- But they never listen!

- What a chosen people!

- What a stupid people!

- They could have had everything and they lost everything!

- Is it possible to be more stupid?

- But the majority of humanity has been doing the same!

- How is it possible to keep thinking of a people of Yah.weh?

- Is it so difficult to understand the Bible?

- Everywhere the Bible speaks about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- Why? Simply because these faithful servants of Yah.weh keep demonstrating their faith in Yah.weh!

 

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1 Samuel 9

Saul belongs to a wealthy family, he is the most handsome man and the tallest in Israel. He meets Samuel who must anoint him as king over Israel. But before that, Samuel invites Saul to eat with him.

- God chooses Saul as king over Israel!

- He is rich, the most handsome and the tallest!

- Everything according to human standards!

- But not according to Yah.weh’s standards!

- He is supposed to free the Israelites from the Philistines!

- But he will make the wrong choices and will oppose Yah.weh!

- He will pay the price for it and so will the Israelites!

- They will be defeated by the Philistines!

- Power corrupts man!

- It is true with religion, politics and trade!

- Thus the Hebrews have never been Yah.weh’s people!

- They have always been corrupted!

- They have always served other gods!

- We can only speak about faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- We can only speak about individuals!

- It is human history!

- On the same line, Yah.weh’s kingdom will direct the new promised land!

- But after 1,000 years, the devil and his demons will be released!

- And mankind will oppose Yah.weh for the last time!

- It will be necessary to purify man’s corruption for the last time!

- And after that, Yah.weh will put an end to man’s corruption!

- For those who will see everything, they will be witnesses of Yah.weh’s action!

- After that and finally, there will be no more corruption on earth!

- No more demons and no more corrupt men to endanger the earth!

- It will be incredible to see that!

- Yah.weh’s way vs man’s way!

 

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1 Samuel 10

Samuel anoints Saul as king of Israel and tells him where to go and what to do and he will receive God’s spirit and will prophesy and become another person. Then they will meet again and Samuel will make a sacrifice and he will tell him what to do next.

- Samuel tells Saul what to do!

- Everything is well organized!

- Of course because it comes from Yah.weh!

- Nothing is left to chance!

- That’s the definition of Yah.weh!

- He is The Architect of the Universe!

- Wherever we go, whatever we see, we always find organization!

- The structure of the universe is incredible!

- It is exactly the same with small particles!

- We can say the same with the human body!

- Man has lost perfection!

- And Yah.weh has reduced man’s potential a lot!

- He can’t stay young, he is ill, he dies!

- But man is still incredibly made!

- Why is he such a chaos?

- He can only bring destruction!

- Hopefully, Yah.weh will put an end to this human farce!

- What is sure is that there is no limits to human brains!

- We only put limits by our actions!

- But the more we use it, the more we can use and develop its connections!

 

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1 Samuel 11

Saul and Samuel organize Israel to fight against the Ammonites and they defeat them and Saul is made king by Israel in Gilgal and sacrifices are offered!

- Saul’s kingship is validated by the victory over the Ammonites!

- Everything starts well!

- Saul is put forward!

- Samuel is behind!

- Israel rejoices!

- But it won’t last!

- Man usually follows the wrong way meaning his way to favor himself against the others!

- As everyone does the same, it has never worked and will never worked!

- We have reached the end of the system!

- it is completely out of order!

- Everything goes into pieces!

- We live in a world of clowns!

 

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1 Samuel 12

Samuel speaks before Israel, he says he is old, he did his best as judge over Israel and Israel testifies about Samuel’s great job for them. And he speaks about all the sins of Israel and the price they have been paying for that. He warns Israel if the people oppose God. And he is going to call on God to bring thunder and rain as it is the wheat harvest so they can understand what they have done against God by asking for a human king. Thus the same day God made it thunder and rain so Israel was greatly in fear of God and of Samuel. And Samuel will continue to instruct Israel. But he warns them again to follow God if they don’t want to be punished.

- Israel is warned!

- Israel sins!

- Israel is punished!

- And the story repeats all the time!

- Except that the sins are so numerous that they will end up being rejected!

- Thus Israelites can be ashamed to be Israelites!

- Men can be ashamed to be men because of mankind’s sins!

- As a consequence, we should demonstrate our faith to Yah.weh with actions!

- If we are lukewarm, we are condemned!

- If we don’t do our best, Jesus’ sacrifice won’t be enough to open up the door of the new promised land for us!

- We will stay at the door meaning that we will die because we, as men, are guilty!

- If we don’t do our best, Yah.weh will consider us as clowns and strangers!

- And he won’t care about us!

- As individuals, we can be saved,

- As individuals, we can encourage others to act and save themselves if they want to demonstrate their own faith to Yah.weh!

- And if they don’t,that’s their personal choice!

- We won’t be guilty because of their bad choices!

- Yah.weh will be the only leader of the universe!

- And he won’t accept those who are not acceptable according to his criterias!

- And he will be the only boss!

- Those who are not satisfied with him won’t be accepted in his new promised land!

- Like it or not, it won’t change anything!

- Time is coming when Yah.weh will be the only one who can say you will live or you will die!

- End of the story!

- That’s reality, no dream!

- There will be no surprise!

- Nobody will be able to say, I didn’t know!

- It is written in the Bible!

- You don’t care, Yah.weh won’t care either!

- If we don’t have our pass for the new promised land, we will be rejected!

- If we don’t have our pass, we will be considered illegal!

 

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1 Samuel 13

Jonathan, Saul’s son, strikes a garrison of the Philistines and Saul let the people know about it and they are told to follow Saul against the philistines. So the philistines go against Israel and the people are trembling. And they keep waiting for Samuel to come. But the people begin to leave Saul so he decides to make a sacrifice. But as soon as he has done it, Samuel arrives and tells him that he has acted foolishly. And because of that, his kingdom won’t last and somebody will take it from him because he didn’t obey what God commanded him. And Israel doesn’t have many weapons because it was forbidden by the Philistines.

- Once again we are warned!

- Only the High Priest could offer sacrifices to God!

- The king couldn’t do it himself!

- But Saul did it!

- As a consequence he will lose everything!

- And humanity never understands!

- And God warns again and again!

- It happened with Israel!

- It has been happening with humanity!

- The price will be very high to pay!

- A question of life and death!

- It is just incredible when you get a book, the Bible, with one message!

- And how men can turn it into different messages with different meanings!

- The Hebrews did it so many times and they were destroyed as a people!

- And it is exactly the same with mankind!

- They never understand!

- Probably when people keep repeating the same things, they finish believing it it true!

- The problem here it is that we have the Bible and we have the story about the Hebrews and mankind!

- The Hebrews made a bad end!

- Mankind has already made a bad end and keeps doing it with the final as a super bad end!

- Something which has never happened before to such an extent!

- And it will happen again after the 1,000 years!

- Thus again and again!

- And they don’t want to listen!

- And they don’t care!

- That’s free will!

- But there will be an end!

- Then no more free will to behave stupidly!

- Yah.weh has organized everything so that human stupidity can disappear forever!

 

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1 Samuel 14

Jonathan decides to go against a garrison of the Philistines without telling his father and he wins. And the Philistines are in great confusion and they fight against each other. And the Israelites who fled or went with the Philistines come back to Saul and they pursue the Philistines. And God saves the Israelites. But Saul had told the Israelites not to eat before the evening and having finished with the Philistines. But Jonathan doesn’t know so he eats honey and his face begins to shine and the people tell him. And Jonathan says it was a mistake from his father because the Israelites could have killed many more Philistines. But at the end the people are so hungry that they eat the cattle with the blood but it is forbidden by God. So Saul says to the Israelites to make sacrifices to be forgiven by God. And Saul wants to fight against the Philistines so the priest tells him to ask God but God doesn’t answer so Saul wants to know who has sinned. And Jonathan says that he ate a bit of honey. So Saul wants to kill him but the people oppose Saul because the victory is possible because of him. So the people rescue Jonathan and Saul stops pursuing the Philistines. Saul secures his kingship over Israel and fights all his enemies and he defeats all of them. There is fierce warfare with the Philistines all the days of Saul.

- We are told about a story of wars!

- Jonathan eats not knowing his father said the Israelites couldn’t do it till the evening!

- As a consequence of Saul’s sayings, the Israelites are starving and they eat the cattle with their blood which is a sin!

- Bad decisions lead to sins against Yah.weh!

- And sins accumulate to a great extent!

- When we look at today’s society, it is so far away from Yah.weh that it is nonsense!

- And the world is getting crazy!

- And the scientists are warning the political leaders!

- But political leaders are trying to survive now so they don’t care about what comes next!

- The problem is that everything accumulates and the pressure will become more and more unbearable!

- And history is a warning but they turned off the alarm a long time ago!

- Is our alarm off?

- Here we have two ways: Jonathan goes one way, Saul goes another one!

- Jonathan is successful, Saul will keep fighting the Philistines all his life and they will kill him and his sons!

- PRIDE VS HUMILITY!

- In Yah.weh’s next promised land, there will only be humility!

- There won’t be any room for human pride!

- THE ONLY BOSS WILL BE YAH.WEH!

 

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1 Samuel 15

Samuel tells Saul that God has sent him to anoint him as king over Israel. Saul will have to strike the Amalekites and destroy them (man, woman, child and infant and all the animals) with all that they have because they opposed Israel. So they killed all the Amalekites except king Agag and the best of the flock and all that is good. But they destroy everything which is worthless. Then God tells Samuel what Saul and the Israelites have done and Samuel is very upset and he keeps crying out to God all night long. When Samuel arrives, Saul tells him he has done everything according to God. So Samuel asks about the flock and Saul says that the people have spared the herd for sacrificing to God. And Samuel tells him to stop. Because he hasn’t done according to God’s word, obeying God is better than a sacrifice. As a consequence, God has rejected Saul and he will put somebody else as king over Israel. And Saul kills Agag. And Samuel leaves and will never see Saul again.

- All the time God says one thing to Israel and all the time Israel rebels!

- But they never understand!

- And he strikes again and again!

- And when they can’t stand it they call for God’s help again!

- And when things get better, they start to rebel against God!

- What about humanity?

- It is exactly the same story!

- They never understand!

- Till the end they will never understand!

- And when the end comes, it will be too late!

- They may cry, but it will be too late!

- Justice implies that everybody must pay for his actions!

- Why are human beings so stupid?

- Because they are too superficial?

- They think they are important!

- But they are good for nothing!

- That’s why the Bible tells about God and few faithful human beings!

- But being a human being is such a shame!

- Yah.weh’s word vs human tradition!

- Everything is written in the Bible!

- And they keep following human tradition as the Hebrews did!

- Really a joke!

- But there will be a time to cry!

- But it happened to the Hebrews!

- Ah no sorry, they are Yah.weh’s people!

- Yah.weh will strike them as he stroke the Hebrews!

- END OF THE JOKE!

 

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1 Samuel 16

God sends Samuel to Jesse and he anoints one of his sons David the youngest one. And Saul asks for David because he plays the Harp well so Saul can find relief.

- Man only thinks superficially and according to appearances!

- Yah.weh knows the inside!

- That’s why he chooses David!

- But David will become king!

- And because of power he will do such bad actions!

- And the price will be high according to the gravity of his bad actions!

- And man never understands!

- And today we see the same story!

- How boring it is!

- Then we remember David or Saul!

- But we should remember Samuel!

- There is so much to learn about Samuel and his special relationship with Yah.weh!

- The one who really shines is Samuel not David or Saul!

- That’s the big problem with men!

- They can’t see the right light which leads to Yah.weh!

- They always take the wrong light!

- Or they are attracted by the wrong light!

- They prefer human corruption to Yah.weh’s word!

- They prefer pride to humility!

- So wrong!

- Then it must be very difficult to understand the Bible!

- It’s up to each one!

- If we really want , we can do it!

- But if we don’t do the job, the others won’t do it for us!

- They will lead you to the desert, not to the new promised land!

 

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1 Samuel 17

- David follows Yah.weh and he is rewarded!

- He beats Goliath the giant!

- HUMILITY VS PRIDE!

- But it won’t last!

- He will keep following Yah.weh till he becomes king!

- Then with the time and because of power he will act stupidly!

- And he will pay for it the rest of his life!

- We must remember this example!

- Being faithful doesn’t mean we will keep being so!

- It is a warning!

- Being faithful requires strong efforts and humility to stay faithful!

- It is easy for man to forget and start behaving foolishly!

- One jewel, Samuel and stones, Saul, David!

- Yes, Samuel is the real jewel but not everybody can see his light!

- You need to see it with your mind!

- And it should keep growing and growing without limits!

- Then it becomes so big!

- But many don't see it!

- And it is the same with the whole Bible!

- Yes, humility is the key to Yah.weh and to the the Bible and to faithfulness to Yah.weh!

 

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1 Samuel 18

- Saul keeps opposing Yah.weh and acting badly and trying to kill David!

- On the contrary, David keeps acting according to Yah.weh!

- And he is blessed by Yah.weh again and again!

- And it will be so till he becomes king!

- Then he will start to forget Yah.weh and try to follow his own desires!

- How easy it is for a man to change his attitude even if he knows it is stupid and it means getting into trouble!

- Of course, samuel was lucky because he was sent to Yah.weh’s house when he was a boy!

- Yes, he could speak directly to Yah.weh!

- Yes, he was taught by him every moment of his life!

- But he could see bad examples!

- Especially Eli’s sons who were priests!

- And he could also see that Eli, the High Priest didn’t do anything!

- But he kept faithful till his death!

- And he was jealous for Yah.weh when the Hebrews asked for a human king and rejected definitely Yah.weh!

- It is incredible to think that he didn’t eradicate them all at once!

- But Abraham was his friend and because of him he was patient and waited and waited!

- But finally the Hebrews were destroyed as a people!

- It was only a question of time!

- And mankind is following the same path!

- And Yah.weh is patient and gieves them the opportunity to repent!

- But many don’t care!

- They prefer pride instead of humility!

- Yah.weh will blow them away as a consequence!

- The earth doesn’t belong to us!

- We have no right for survival!

- We can only do our best to be accepted in the new promised land!

- Will we be accepted?

- It depends on us and about what we are ready to do!

 

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1 Samuel 19


- So Saul is the king and he chooses to oppose Yah.weh!

- When he realizes that Yah.weh is with David he wants to kill him!

- What pride!

- And he thinks being the king will save him!

- So many kings did the same in the Bible and they had a bad end!

- But each time he escapes because Yah.weh is with him!

- Yah.weh is teaching David to become his faithful servant!

- And he will always remember him!

- But when he chooses pride and opposes Yah.weh, he will strike him according to his deeds!

- No way to escape!

- But when David becomes a king, he gets into trouble and sins against Yah.weh!

- He will get into trouble!

- Yah.weh will make him pay the price!

- In the Bible no king stays faithful till the end!

- Power corrupts people!

- When a man gets power, he wants more power and he starts to think he can do whatever he wants!

- But all the time, it is a personal choice!

- And when Jesus comes back to clean the earth, it will be the same!

- Why do we have such brains and can’t use them properly?

- Always pride instead of humility!

- It is tiring!

 

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1 Samuel 20

- Jonathan knows that Yah.weh is with David!

- He knows that David will become king instead of him!

- But Jonathan is not jealous!

- Here we have an example of what real friendship is!

- But in this world real friendship is getting harder and harder to find!

- In fact, real anything is difficult to find!

- Because superficiality is corrupting everything!

- It is like a dangerous virus which spreads everywhere and there is no cure!

- A pandemic!

- Yes, humility vs pride!

- Once again we get the main key to Yah.weh and the new promised land!

- There is no other option!

- Why is it so difficult?

- Power!

- Man wants power and to be able to control others!

- It’s funny to think about the word minister!

- Being a minister of Yah.weh or ministering means serving the others!

- Jesus keeps showing us in the Gospels!

- So different with the usual meaning!

- In fact, completely different!

- Like humility vs pride!

- How do you want to understand the Bible if you don’t open your mind?

 

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1 Samuel 21

- God keeps teaching David as he keeps fleeing from Saul to survive!

- Adversity is the best teacher!

- Because you have no choice but to fight for survival!

- Then you get stronger or you die!

- The law of nature!

- When you don’t fight for survival, you don’t get stronger!

- We find so many examples which are similar!

- Yah.weh uses this model to train his faithful servants especially when they are going to be leaders among the Hebrews!

- Samuel is a good example because he was trained with Eli and his bad sons!

- But he always kept faithful!

- His sons didn’t receive such training!

- They didn’t keep faithful to Yah.weh!

- At the end we are the ones who choose to stay faithful or not!

- The future promised land will be available only for the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- The others will be rejected as it has always been the same!

 

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- In fact, we are not told a lot about Samuel!

- We know about his youth!

- We know Yah.weh was always with him!

- We know he was a faithful servant of Yah.weh!

- We know he was jealous for Yah.weh against the Israelites!

- We know he was busy working for Yah.weh!

- And it is a protection!

- We know Samuel’s sons didn’t choose the same way!

- They were corrupted!

- We know the Israelites asked for a human king because of Samuel’s two sons’ corruption!

- Life is not always easy even for a faithful servant of Yah.weh!

- But at least he knows the way if he found the right one, he doesn’t have to look for it! (Paul was lucky to be put into the right track, he didn’t know he was wrong but his heart was sincere)

- Of course, in Yah.weh’s world, it will be possible to work with him to make things completely different!

- Something we can’t even imagine till we are there and till we work for it!

- But there will be nothing better than working for Yah.weh in his world!

- But for the moment we are living in a dying world which is dying because of men who are irresponsible!

 

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1 Samuel 22

- Saul has lost his mind!

- He kills 85 Yah.weh’s priests and their wives and infants!

- He thinks he can oppose Yah.weh without paying the consequences!

- He will die for that, he and all his sons!

- And the Israelites will keep doing the same paying a high price!

- And everything is written in the Bible!

- And people keep following human tradition instead of Yah.weh’s word!

- There are so many examples!

- Of course, the majority are bad examples!

- And all the time, Yah.weh keeps warning men!

- But when time has come for Yah.weh to strike them, there is no way to escape!

- And men keep doing it as if they didn’t understand!

- It is so ridiculous!

- It is pure nonsense!

- Or better said free will!

 

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1 Samuel 23

- Saul keeps looking for David to kill him!

- But Yah.weh protects David and helps him to survive!

- Yah.weh blesses David in everything he does!

- David carefully listens to Yah.weh to know what he must do!

- In fact, David asks Yah.weh whatever he does!

- Thus, he acts exactly according to what he is told!

- So we can speak about two people, one David before he becomes king and another David after he becomes king!

- Again we can talk about free will!

- We always choose what we want to do!

- As a consequence, we are responsible!

- If we don’t do anything and let others act for us, we are also responsible!

- When we follow others, we are also responsible!

- It doesn’t matter what the group does!

- Today corruption is everywhere!

- If we let ourselves be corrupted, we are corrupted!

- The Hebrews were corrupted and so is mankind!

 

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1 Samuel 24

- Once again God protects David!

- And Saul goes away!

- But he will try again to kill David!

- It is something stronger than him!

- Even if he knows it is against Yah.weh’s will!

- But he has the power!

- Thus he only understands power and violence!

- He kept away from Yah.weh and he did it voluntarily!

- The Hebrews did the same!

- So has mankind!

- It looks like madness!

- A collective suicide!

- Why so little with such brains!

 

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1 Samuel 25

- Abigail is a good and intelligent woman!

- David listens to her and doesn’t kill her husband!

- Later when Yah.weh kills Nabal, David marries Abigail because he knows she is a good and intelligent woman!

- In fact, he takes care of her!

Some scholars estimate that David had as many as 18 wives and 10 concubines. Others believe that the number was much higher. David's first wife, Michal, was the daughter of King Saul. Their union was not without challenges, as Saul initially opposed their marriage.

Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.

- And they were among the best kings in Israel!

- Solomon followed his father’s example!

- He broke all records!

- Was his wisdom of any use?

- Apparently not at all, on the contrary!

- He prostituted himself with many gods, the gods of all his women!

- Once again we can observe human evolution!

- They call it progress!

- I say regression!

- I say total corruption!

- That’s where we are!