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1 Samuel 26


- Once again Saul is told where David hides!

- So Saul goes with 3,000 men to look for David!

- At night, David comes to Saul’s camp with some men and they take Saul’s spear and water jug!

- then David tells Saul what has just happened and that he could have killed him!

- So each one goes his own way!

- There again we see the big difference with David before and after he becomes king of Israel!

- Before, he follows God straight away!

- After, he goes in the wrong direction!

- It is just incredible to think that David stays faithful to Yah.weh before he becomes king!

- Apparently before, he would not even think about it!

- then it was gradual!

- As nobody goes against you, you start to think that you can do whatever you want, good or bad!

- It’s up to you to decide!

- Same with corruption!

- The Hebrews were always corrupted!

- They always tried to copy the other nations!

- They didn't care about Yah.weh!

- Same with mankind!

- Same with man!

- When Jesus comes back, he will choose men regarding corruption!

- Everything is written in the Bible!

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

- Men were always told about corruption!

- It’s not because the majority is corrupted that it is an excuse!

 

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1 Samuel 27

- David decides to leave the land of Israel and looks for protection among the Philistines!

- And Saul stops searching for him!

- At this time, David has only two wives, Jezreel and Abigail!

- He stays with the Philistines for a year and four months!

- And David would fight the Geshurtites, the girzites and the amalekites!

- He would kill men and women and keep the animals and clothing!

- Thus they couldn’t speak to the Philistines!

- So Achish the Philistine king thinks David will always be his servant!

- Thus David shows himself cunning!

- Well, he has no other way to escape Saul even if Yah.weh is with him!

- As usual, Yah.weh was with David because he was doing his part!

- If we don’t do our part, Yah.weh won’t be with us!

- And above all, we won’t get into the next promised land!

- It will only be for his people!

 

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1 Samuel 28

- The Philistines are going to fight against Israel!

- Achish wants David to be his bodyguard!

- Samuel has died!

- Saul has removed the spirit mediums and the fortune-tellers from Israel!

- When he sees the Philistines, Saul is afraid!

- And Yah.weh never answers him!

- So he asks his servants to look for a spirit medium!

- So they tell him about a woman!

- Saul disguises himself and goes to see her at night with two of his men!

- But she tells him that she can’t do it as it is forbidden!

- But Saul tells her she won’t have any problems!

- He tells her to call Samuel’s spirit!

- Of course, it can’t be Samuel’s spirit!

- Because Samuel wouldn’t get into contact with Saul when he was alive!

- And Yah.weh wouldn’t answer Saul either!

- The woman understands that king Saul is in front of her!

- But Saul tells her not to be afraid!

- The spirit asks him why he inquires about him since Yah.weh has departed from him and has become his adversary!

- The spirit then tells him that he will lose the battle!

- And Saul and his sons will die!

- Corruption everywhere as usual!

- And men don’t want to understand!

- But faithfulness has nothing to do with corruption!

- there is no excuse and there will be no excuse!

- And David will become king over Israel!

- According to man’s standards, Yah.weh may take time to realize his decisions!

- But when the time has come, it happens!

- Thus time has come to put an end to Saul’s reign!

- Let’s David’s reign begin!

 

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1 Samuel 29-30

- Because of the other Philistine Lords, Achish tells David to go back to his city and not to fight!

- When David goes back to Ziklag, the Amalekites have made a raid against the city and have burnt it and taken captive the women and all the inhabitants in it!

- And David’s men want to stone him because of their sons and daughters!

- Then David asks Yah.weh if he must chase after the Amalekites!

- And Yah.weh tells him to go after them!

- David fights against the Amalekites and recovers everything!

- And Yah.weh keeps blessing David who walks in Yah.weh’s path!

- We should always remember this sentence!

- It has something to do with faithfulness!

- When David became king, he stopped walking in Yah.weh’s path!

- What about us?

- David was not faithful!

- If we are faithful, we keep being faithful!

- If we are faithful, we can’t stop being faithful!

 

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1 Samuel 31- 2 Samuel 1


Israel loses and the philistines kill many Israelites. Saul dies and his three sons too. An Amalekite who was fighting with Saul tells David about Saul's death and his three sons’ death.

- End of Saul’s story, first human king over Israel!

- A bad one as Saul opposes Yah.weh and is rejected by him!

- Next comes David, the new king who follows Yah.weh but power will corrupt him!

- And he will be punished by Yah.weh!

- As usual the majority follows corruption!

- And faithfulness is for a minority!

- It has always been so and it will always be so at least till the end of the 1,000 years!

- Then there won’t be any more corruption!

- Men are told again and again!

- But they never listen!

- But they will be told till the end!

- Before Jesus cleans the earth!

 

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2 Samuel 2


- David was anointed king by Samuel according to Yah.weh’s will!

- He becomes king over Judah!

- But Abner, the chief of Saul’s army, makes Saul’s son king over Israel!

- He does so probably to stay chief of the army!

- He doesn’t care about Yah.weh’s will!

- But it won’t be a good choice because he will die!

- It is always dangerous to oppose Yah.weh!

- But it is a tradition in Israel!

- And among men!

- It rarely goes straight away but it is usually a way to test men so they can show their real nature!

 

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2 Samuel 3


- The story of Israel is complicated from the beginning!

- There always have been problems among Israel!

- And it will be so all the time!

- They will keep going that way!

- They will never listen to Yah.weh!

- They will go into exile!

- They will be slaves!

- Because of Solomon’s attitude, Yah.weh separated Israel and Judah!

- And both kept going in the wrong direction!

- And they did it with great pleasure!

- The result? They lost everything and finally Jerusalem was destroyed twice!

- We can look in any direction and it is always the same: it depends on individuals!

- There are faithful servants of Yah.weh !

- But they are always individuals!

- It is the same with mankind and it will always be so!

 

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2 Samuel 4

Jonathan has a son, Mephibosheth who is crippled. Ishbosheth is killed. And David kills the men who have just killed Ishbosheth.

- Things are not going better!

- On the contrary, we are told about murders!

- And it will be so during all the stories of the kings of Israel and Judah!

- It happened as God told them!

- Bad actions lead to bad actions!

- It is a magnet attracted by the negative pole!

- We also understand why David couldn’t build Yah.weh’s temple!

- He spent his life fighting and killing people!

- Definitely nothing interesting for the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- Only positive actions of faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- We need to study these positive actions to find the way to Yah.weh!

 

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2 Samuel 5

- David is anointed king over Israel in Hebron by all the elders of Israel. He is 30 and he reigns for 40 years!

- He reigns for 7 years and 6 months in Hebron over Judah!

- He reigns for 33 years in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah!

- He takes Jerusalem from the Jebusites!

- David takes more concubines and wives in Jerusalem after he comes from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David!

- Then the Philistines come against him!

- Yah.weh tells him to go against them!

- And he beat them!

- Later they come again!

- And Yah.weh tells him to go around behind them!

- And he beat them again!

- Every time David follows Yah.we’s instructions to beat the philistines!

- And he beats them!

- But maybe you have seen a problem starting at his coming to Jerusalem!

- He gets many concubines and wives!

- And later he will get into trouble because of that among his own family!

- And not only that but Solomon will perpetuate the tradition to a far greater extent!

- As a result he will get away from Yah.weh because of all his foreign wives worshiping other gods!

- And the price will be excessively high!

- But Samuel had warned Israel!

- How true he was!

- When we think about today’s human kings elected or not, that’s the same never-ending story!

- What we can say about the Hebrews, we can say about mankind!

- And the situation is not better today!

- On the contrary!

- People usually think everything is better today!

- But in terms of Yah.weh’s criterias, it is worst!

- And it keeps getting worst and worst!

- And the best evidence is when we think about man’s ability to destroy mankind and everything on earth!

- And the rich get richer and the poor poorer!

- And man’s justice is a joke!

- And man is a mere joke!

- And man will never wake up!

 

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- Kings of Israel and Judah


- What can we say?
- Faithfulness 0 - Corruption All kings!


- There is nothing to add!

 

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1 Samuel 3:1

And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD (Yah·weh) before Eli.

Now in those days the word of the LORD (Yah·weh) was rare

and visions were scarce.

 

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1 Samuel 8:4

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

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1 Samuel 8:5

“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways.

Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

 

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1 Samuel 8:7

And the LORD (Yah.weh) said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you,

For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.

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1 Samuel 8:8

They are doing to you just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until

this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods.

 

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1 Samuel 8:18

When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD (Yah.weh) will not answer you on that day.”

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1 Samuel 8:20

Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”

 

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- The nation of Israel!


- What can we say?
- Faithfulness 1 (Samuel) - Corruption All the nation of Israel!


- There is nothing to add!

 

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2 Samuel 6

David gathers 30,000 men to bring the Ark of the true God. It is placed on a wagon. Then it nearly falls so Uzzah grabs hold of it. Because Uzzah touches the Ark, God gets angry so he kills Uzzah. And David becomes angry and fearful at the same time. So David decides not to bring the Ark to Jerusalem. It stays in the house of Obed Edom the Gittite and God blesses him and all his house. So finally David decides to bring the Ark to Jerusalem. Michal Saul's daughter and David ‘s wife has an argument with David because he celebrated the coming of the Ark to Jerusalem. And he did it by dancing in front of everybody and Michal told him it was not correct for a king. And she kept barren all her life !

- There is often a great difference between God’s will and man’s will!

- And there are always consequences, often bad ones but men still don’t understand!

- Apparently that’s the same chorus centuries after centuries!

- And men still don’t understand!

- And they are surprised but if they knew just a bit more the Bible they shouldn’t be surprised!

- Unfortunately, the next surprise will be destructive!

- But a human being is supposed to evolve to become an adult!

- Apparently, it’s rarely the case because he keeps behaving like a baby who never understands!

- Sooner or later we must become adult and if we refuse we must assume the consequences!

- That’s life, nothing to be sad or happy about!

- We may decide to take the train or not!

- We should remember Uzzah: he died because he touched Yah.weh’s ark because he wanted to avoid the ark from falling!

- But it was forbidden!

- For men, it is usual to disrespect Yah.weh!

- Throughout human history, they have been doing it all the time!

- Even those who were supposed to respect him!

- They paid the price!

- They will keep paying the price till the end!

- But it will be nothing compared to what they will pay when Jesus comes back as a warrior and not as a baby!

- Apparently they like it!

- Well, this time the cup will be full!