1 Samuel 23:1-29

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the First Samuel Bible

Study with Matthew and Rachel. Good stuff. Boy, we really

had a good stuff with Psalm 23, so if you

didn't listen to Psalm 23, you're going to be literally

out in the woods. But this is good stuff. This

is really why Well, I can't say it is the reason.

It is a reason why that David penned Being Moved

with the Holy Spirit, Psalm 23. So, kind of a

lengthy chapter here. We're over 21 verses, so it's a

big chapter. So I don't need to sit here and,

you know, for 20 minutes. I think you should. I

really don't think I should, so What's your thoughts after reading?

Did you hit record? Yeah, I hit record. Why are

you second-guessing me? Yes, I hit record. I'm sure I did.

It's recording.

Okay.

Just making sure. No, you're gaslighting me. Okay. That's a

private joke. Rachel says that to me all the time.

I'm not gaslighting you. The other day, there was a

light bulb burned out in the bathroom for so long.

It was like for ages, right? So I change it,

and she comes in there, and oh my goodness. What

did you do? Did you add a light? You're gaslighting.

You didn't change a light bulb. You're gaslighting me. I

was gaslighting you. So, boy. The bride really is being

gaslit when it comes to Bible prophecy. This is pretty important. Literally,

Psalm 23 is fulfilled here. And it says so many

things in so many different ways in Psalm 23 that

applies to this, especially the green pastures. Because when you

got in the green pastures off of the mountainsides, that's

where That's where the predators lie is in the brush

and in the trees. So when you come out onto the,

the valley to graze, that's when you get, that's when

you get taken. So anyway, um, what did you think

about this baby? Well, um, hmm.

What did they think about it? I, It definitely was

following along with the idea of God being David's shepherd,

guiding him through this whole ordeal, the exact path. I

do have a question. Is Keilah in Zipf?

Is it in?

Israelite territory or is that like outside.

Of Israelite territory? It's outside of Judah. It's outside of.

I mean, is it outside of the land that God

gave to the Israelites? No.

Well, God gave the land of the Philistines to the Israelites.

Right.

So... So, yeah. So, yes, it is. It's definitely in

the Promised Land, yes.

Okay.

Yeah, it's definitely in the Promised Land. But, you know, this...

this opening diatribe is just so, why did you do this?

You risk your life and limb for these people. Anyway,

it just shows you what we're supposed to be doing

up until the event. We're supposed, you know, we spread

the gospel, we minister to people. That's what we do,

even still. And it's just a trip, this opening diatribe.

And while they may be Betray us.

Oh, they will.

It's like the peril of the dragnet.

Amen, baby.

You know, we're just supposed to get any fish that

we can find.

That's our job.

And God is the one who will.

Sort it out later. Boy, that can be a painful process.

Feeling the sting of that here today. Really close. So anyway,

why don't you start reading this right from the beginning.

It's just, man, these first 13 verses are so apropos.

Take it away, baby.

Then they told David, saying, Look, the Philistines are fighting

against Kelah, and they are robbing the threshing floors. Therefore

David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and

attack these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go

and attack the Philistines and save Keilah. But David's men

said to him, Look, we are afraid here in Judah.

How much more if we go to Keilah against the

armies of the Philistines? Then David inquired of the Lord

once again, and the Lord answered him and said, Arise,

Go down to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines

into your hand. And David and his men went to

Keilah and fought against the Philistines, struck them with a

mighty blow, and took away their livestock. So David saved

the inhabitants of Keilah.

So stop. This is why I answered the way I

answered it. Okay. It's not elaborating. He's not telling you.

whether it's in Israel or not, he does tell you

it's not in Judah. But David's men said, look, we

are afraid here in Judah. How much more if we

go to Kelah against the armies of the Philistines? He

just wants you to know you're supposed to know David's

home is Judah. That's where his land is. That's where

his home is. And This is somewhere else other than that.

So yes, it's somewhere in the promised land, but not

in Judah. Okay, so go ahead.

Now it happened when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, fled

to David at Keilah, that he went down with an

ephod in his hand. And Saul was told that David

had gone to Keilah, So Saul said, God has delivered

him into my hand, for he has shut himself in

by entering a town that has gates and bars. Then

Saul called all the people together for war to go

down to Keilah to besiege David.

And his men.

When David knew that Saul plotted evil against him, he

said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod here. Then

David said, O Lord God of Israel, your servant has

certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to

destroy the city for my sake. Will the men of

Keilah deliver me into his hands? Will Saul come down

as your servant has heard? O Lord, God of Israel,

I pray, tell your servant. And the Lord said, He

will come down. Then David said, Will the men of

Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?

And the Lord said, They will deliver you. So David

and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from

Keilah and went wherever they could go. Then it was

told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, so he

halted the expedition.

Okay, this is extremely prophetic. This is talking about the

great apostasy. No doubt about it, it's the people inside

the church that's going to hand you over and make

a martyr out of you. It is amazing here that

he goes to Kilah. But why don't you tell me

what happened at Kilah?

Philistines were attacking them and robbing their threshing floors.

And what did David do?

He went in and rescued them.

He rescued them. And then what did they do?

They continued to let him stay there, but they... God

said that they were planning to hand him over because

Saul was going to come and destroy their city. So

people of Keilah were afraid of Saul instead of realizing

that God was with David and not Saul.

Okay, so that bothers you, huh?

I don't know. I think it bothers you. Well.

I mean, it's... Here is... When we take a look

at this, okay... This is Saul's name. Then it was

told to Saul that David had escaped from Kelah. So

obviously the people of Kelah already had an agreement with Saul.

Already they'd made this deal. We'll take note. I'm going

to switch over to the Hebrew and I'm going to

point it out to you. This is Saul's name. See

Saul right there? See how it is? Shin-oleth-vov-lamet.

Right?

I'm going to show you where the pact is made. Okay. So,

you see there Saul's name, right?

Okay.

See it? I'm showing you the Hebrew. Read for me

the verse.

Because you have said we made a covenant with death

and with Sheol in our... We are in agreement. When

the overflowing... scourge passes through it will not come to

us for we have made lies our refuge and under

falsehood we have hidden ourselves.

That doesn't say saul does it it says she yo

because it's the same word okay it's the same word

literally what's prophetically being stated here isaiah here we could

go ahead and read through this whole thing but you

understand that that they've made a pact with Saul. They've

made a pact with death. We've talked about this many

times in 1 Samuel. Saul is the Antichrist. Right.

And I think this is apropos with our day and

age because a lot of times people will think that

they are doing the right thing when it is absolutely

the evil thing. They think that they're supporting a right

cause that's actually an evil cause made to appear what's right.

It says that Saul himself even said, God has delivered

him into my hand, for he has shut himself in.

by entering a town that has gates and bars. So

even Saul himself had convinced himself that he was on

a mission from God. And so I'm sure that the

people of Keilah had convinced themselves that they were doing

a service to God instead of evil.

So I need you to show you something. Saul did

not say the name of God.

Oh, he didn't?

He said Elohim. The Elohim has delivered him into my hand.

How is that different?

That's too much to bite off. Okay?

Well, he obviously brought it up.

So I was like, what does that, what do you mean?

You have to tell me now.

I have to tell you now?

Yeah, because you brought it up. Now you have to

tell me.

This word, when it's used, means God's will being executed

through his divine counsel, which is angels.

Okay.

So he did not say the Tetragramma Con. He did

not say YHVH delivered David into my hand because he

knew full well that ain't going to happen.

So he used a generic term. Like the heavens have

done this for me.

Let me finish. Okay, so that, okay, we understand. I

just read to you, well, you read from Isaiah 28,

and it said that they make this pact with death

so that when the scourge passes through, 1 Samuel loudly

said who that was. The scourge was the Philistines, right?

Right?

The Philistines worshipped an angel. That's who their gods were.

Their gods were these fallen angels. So this is why

Saul here states, not God, Elohim, the mechanism that's supposed... Anyway,

let me make a long story short. You need to

understand that God repeatedly said the reason why the Philistines

were there is because they rebelled. They were there because

God himself said, that I will deliver you into their hands.

So by them using this phraseology in Hebrew, they're saying

that we know that God has delivered us into the

hands and his scourge is the Philistines. This is an

answer to what God has told us repeatedly. But they've

rejected God outright, rejected him. They don't, you know, we've,

I mean, first Samuel's literally said that over and over

and over and over and over and over again. So

you need to know behind the scenes that, The people

of Kalah had made an agreement with death, so they

thought they were getting out of the divine judgment from God,

from the God, not Elohim.

Okay?

I just gave too much information. Okay. Okay.

So, okay. But I understand more of what you're trying

to say. I thought you were trying to say that

they were using a generic form of God instead of

saying his name. you're saying that they were actually talking

about some angel that they were worshipping.

Yes, and they knew that God was allowing this angel

to deliver them into the hands of the Philistines. It

was the angel who was using the Philistines. They were

being judged by these angels through the Philistines. That's what

it's saying. Okay?

I'm so confused about I think we should probably move on.

No, we got a comment. I just saw something. Jennifer

says it feels like an effort to shift the power

from God to the angels by calling him a specific name.

Let me explain this one more time. Now, both Jennifer

and you are confused. Okay. God told them repeatedly. If

you do not obey me, I will deliver you into

the hands of your enemies. Okay? How this was done.

They knew that an angel would stir up the Philistines

to attack them and oppress them. So they would never

dare insinuate God. Not unless you wanted to be killed

on the spot.

Okay?

So they were saying... We know that the Philistines are

doing this because their God told them to, but we

know that their God really ain't no God. It's really

an angel from God that has deceived them into oppressing

us because we reject the word. We reject it.

Okay, so they're saying that this angel changed his mind

and wasn't doing what God wanted?

Man, you don't listen. You need to listen, okay?

I am. You're just saying a lot.

The angel isn't doing anything wrong. God told the angel,

go be a deceiving spirit and get the Philistines to

attack my people because they won't do what I say. Okay? Okay.

Yes or no? I'll explain it again if I have to. No, okay.

You don't need to see that. No, no, you don't

need to see that.

Okay.

That right there, the comment that Carol put in, is

too much information. Don't look at it. So you understand.

This is why everything here in Hebrew is very calculated.

And Saul dare not say God's proper name. You understand?

This is why it started out by saying God's people

were being oppressed by the Philistines. That was because God

said so. And the Israelites were mad at God because

they rejected what he said so he was punishing them.

And they were never going to do what he said.

They didn't care.

Right?

So that's why Saul was very calculated in his response.

That's why everything happened the way it happened. Because God

had sent this angel to stir up the Philistines To

go discipline his people. And they didn't like it.

Okay. So.

That was a mouthful.

But then God sent. David to rescue him. To rescue them.

From his wrath.

Very good. Yes.

And they turned around and bit the hand that feeds them.

And the point here is, remember, in Hebrew, this doesn't

say saw, it says death. Death. Death is what they wanted.

They didn't want David. They didn't want Tom, Dick, and Harry.

We read it. We read it ourselves. They demanded Saul.

They wanted Saul. Even Samuel said, look, man, he's going

to take your kids. He's going to do this. He's

going to do that. They demanded death. This is why

God says you choose death instead of life. Because Jesus

Christ said, I am the what? The life. They wanted Saul.

And Saul's name is Sheol.

It's death.

So this is why if you've ever studied the Antichrist

and you never studied Saul, you didn't know what you

were talking about. That's why. You were completely clueless. Okay?

So now you understand. God says this all over the place.

He says, if you don't do what I say, I

will deliver you into the hands of your enemies.

Yes.

And you're supposed to know in other places it gives

directions as to how that happens. So, okay. All right.

So that being said, I will try not to get

too deep next time. I'm just saying too much, ain't I?

Yeah.

But you all needed to see this. You all at

least needed to see this. Samuel did not use God's name.

He said Elohim. And he said that because he knew,

he thought this angel that had stirred up the Philistines

had delivered David into his hand. So, okay, verse 14.

And David stayed in the strongholds in the wilderness and

remained in the mountains in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul

sought him every day. but God did not deliver him

into his hand. So David saw that Saul had come

out to seek his life, and David was in the

wilderness of Ziph in a forest. Then Jonathan, Saul's son,

arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened

his hand in God. And he said to him, Do

not fear. For the hand of Saul my father shall

not find you. You shall be king over Israel and

I shall be next to you. Even my father Saul

knows that.

So the.

Two of them made a covenant before the Lord and

David stayed in the woods and Jonathan went to his

own house.

So even the heir knew God said David. And you

also need to realize that Ziph means flowing. It means

to flow. So, that's pretty prophetic, of course, in the

simple fact that this is the Holy Spirit.

What does it mean when it says that Jonathan strengthened

his hand in God? What does that mean?

What do you think it means?

Why does it say that?

I don't know.

Strengthen his hand in God?

Who is it talking about? It's not talking about David.

It's talking about Jonathan. Okay. It's not talking about David.

It's saying that God gave Jonathan the strength to do this.

Because this was suicide. You know that. Saul tried to

kill his own son. You know that. So, I'll let

that lie right there. I just can't, you know, I

can't go on a great big... Right. I'm so tempted

I could go on right now for an hour.

But this is definitely allegory to end times, obviously, between

the church goers and the ones who are truly born

again in Christ and this relationship that will be happening

at that time.

Okay. I can't go into this deeply, okay?

I wasn't saying that. We have to. We don't have to.

I mean, I'm just saying that this is.

Read this. Read verse 17 again. Well, read 16, 17 again.

Then Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David in

the woods and strengthened his hand in God. And he

said to him, Do not fear, for the hand of Saul,

my father, shall not bind you.

You shall.

Be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you.

Even my father Saul knows that.

Read the next one.

So the two of them made a covenant before the Lord,

and David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to

his own house.

Okay, just relax your mind for a minute, okay? I'm

not going to try to overwhelm you. This never happened,

did it? Never happened. David never sat on his throne.

And Jonathan never sat beside him as if Jonathan was

his heir. That never happened.

Yet.

This is prophetically telling you. I can't get too deep

in this. Just create information overload. It is saying here

that there's going to be... There's going to be two

different mechanisms, two different ruling things when it comes to

Jesus when he sits on his throne. He says this.

He says that he will rule with a rod of iron.

That rod of iron is comprised of two different sticks.

I can't get into it. It's too much information overload.

But you know what Jonathan was saying here, that there's

coming a time when even though Boy, I'm saying too

much as it is. This never happened. Of course, Jonathan

was killed before David ever got to the throne. But

it will happen. And yes, this is in reference to

Rachel said the body of Christ. She said the church.

More importantly, what is meant here is the clergy. Jonathan

was in the clergy and it's saying that there are

members of the clergy who are going to rule with

Jesus Christ. You know all these things. Those are the

first resurrection. Those are the first resurrection in Revelation chapter

Revelation 20 · chapter mention

20 is fulfilling what just came out of Jonathan's mouth.

They are Jonathan. Because here, The Lord is remembering what

happened that day.

Okay?

So this really is going to happen. It really is.

And it's trying to say that the heirs aren't physical relations.

The physical... Well, anyway, read on. I can't spend too

much time there.

Then the Zephites came up to Saul at Gedea, saying...

Is David not hiding with us in strongholds in the woods,

in the hill of Hatchulah, which is on the south

of Jeshimon? Now therefore, O king, come down according to

all the desire of your soul to come down, and

our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.

This is the great apostasy, people. Yes, it is. And

they will certainly fulfill what Jesus Christ said they're going

to do. Keep reading, baby.

And Saul said, Blessed are you of the Lord, for

you have compassion on me. Please go and find out

for sure and see the place where his hideout is

and who has seen him there. For I am told

he is very crafty. See therefore and take knowledge of

all the lurking places where he hides and come back

to me with certainty. and I will go with you

and it shall be if he is in the land

that I will search for him throughout all the clans

of Judah.

Stop. Here something else is being said. Take note that

it said, blessed of you are the Lord. Here, Saul

said God's name. And he said God's name for a reason.

For you have had compassion on me. He knows that

the people have done this out of compassion. They've done

this out of an innocent heart. So Saul says, God himself,

you're blessed of God because you did this out of compassion.

Just wanted to point that out. I'm not going to

elaborate on it. We don't have time for it. So anyway,

what's your thoughts on this?

Sounds like ordinary people who are listening to their Emotion

before they actually take time to listen to whether or

not God wants them to do something.

Yes. You must test the spirit, right? And take note.

It goes out of its way to tell you the

clans of Judah again. They're expecting David to be in Judah.

He's at home. Judas the church building so anyway that's

why I said this again throughout all the clans of

Judah so yeah I can't I can't I.

Won't you continue so they rose and went to Ziph

before Saul but David and his men were in the

wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.

When Saul and his men went to seek him, they

told David. Therefore he went down to the rock and

stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that,

he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. Then Saul

went on one side of the mountain and David and

his men on the other side of the mountain. So

David made haste to get away from Saul. For Saul

and his men were encircling David and his men to

take them.

So take note. Maon in Hebrew means a boat. And

it's specifically when it's used generically, it not only means house,

it means the house of God.

So it's literally when Jesus and his disciples were on

the boat and the winds picked up.

And it was storming. Yeah, yes, it was that too. Yes,

it was that too. Yes, it was that too. So

what did you make of this, them going around the mountain?

By the way. Maon is prophetic for Zion. It's also

prophetic for God stretching his tabernacle over you. We talked

about that in Psalm 23, so I'm not going to

go into links about that. I don't know.

I saw you doing this, but I don't know.

They were chasing each other. So Saul was on one

side of the mountain, David was on the other, and

they were chasing each other.

Oh, I just like it.

Saul thought he was chasing David, but that's not what

was going on. David was chasing him. But anyway, so

we'll read it here. He said, Then Saul went on

the one side of the mountain, and David and his

men went on the other side of the mountain. So

David made haste to get away from Saul, for Saul

and his men were encircling David and his men to

take them. They were going around. They were just sitting

there going around and around and around and around in

a circle. And it is telling you This is very prophetic.

I am going to take the time to do this

because the Spirit's moving. They need to understand the Judaist

and the Gilgal. This word here, encircling, they take it

to mean reincarnation. This is them, not me. The Judaists

say that the Messiah is Cyrus the Great. And whenever

the temple is rebuilt, get into the camera, whenever the

temple is rebuilt, okay, it's done by the spirit of Cyrus.

So they're literally saying that, of course, the second temple

was built with Zerubbabel. They say Zerubbabel was a reincarnated, understand, Messiah.

In Hebrew, when they read this, due to the alphanumerics,

They know here that Saul will be reincarnated. And they

also think David will be reincarnated. The word specifically says

they make a pact with death. They make a pact

with Sheol. Okay? Just go there and read it. I've

made hints to it before, but Let's go to Isaiah

Isaiah 28 · chapter mention

chapter 28.

Okay.

Read verse 15 again.

Because you have said we have made a covenant with

death and with Sheol we are in agreement, when the

overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us,

for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood

we have hidden ourselves.

Literally, this says Saul. We have made a covenant with

death and with Saul. We are in agreement. Saul is

the king they want. They want nothing more than this.

They want nothing more than the reincarnated spirit of David

to be their king. They know this. They can see

it and they can know it. They know what God's saying.

So I said that they were being chased around Mount Zion, right?

Verse 16, therefore, says the Lord God, behold, I lay

in Zion a quarter stone for a foundation, a tribe,

a precious stone, a sure foundation. Whoever believes in it

will not act hastily. You know, this is quoted in

the New Testament. You know that.

But it says mayon. It doesn't say anything about.

I said mayon is Zion. I said that.

I don't remember what you said.

Yes, I specifically said that Mayon here prophetically is talking

about it's God's house. His abode is Zion. That's why

this switch is.

Okay, sorry. You didn't say the word Zion, so that

was why I was lost.

Yes, I did say it. Oh, well.

I'm sick, so that's my excuse.

That's your excuse. And I'm sticking with it. So read

first verse 18. Skip down. So there's too much information.

Skip down to verse 18.

Your covenant with death will be annulled and your agreement

with Sheol will not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through,

then you will be trampled down by it.

I'm not going to say anything more. This is the

pact with Saul. Anyway, yeah, this is just jam-packed with

Bible prophecy. but why don't you finish it? So now, oh,

by the way, so before you read it, okay, we'll

switch over here to the Hebrew. Okay. What you see here, messenger, right? Look,

what does messenger mean? It's an angel. It's an angel.

So I'm just telling you, I had to tell you

that before. I wasn't trying to create information overload about

the Elohim.

But a messenger came to Saul, saying, Hurry and come,

for the Philistines have invaded the land. Therefore Saul returned

from pursuing David and went against the Philistines. So they

called that place the Rock of Escape. Then David went

up from there and dwelt in the strongholds of En Gedi.

So here we have another name. another prophetic name for

the tabernacle of David. It's called the Rock of Escape.

So anyway, now that you see that, an angel came

to Saul, but this is a good translation, a messenger,

but this Hebrew is prophetic.

So where are we seen En Gedi before?

Who said we'd seen En Gedi before? Who said that?

I just, I remember it from somewhere.

You remember it from somewhere? Like a desert or something?

Am I wrong?

I thought I'd heard it somewhere, like in the New Testament.

You're the one remembering, not me.

I feel like....

Because this is the first time here it's been mentioned.

Well, there's a little A there, so let's see.

There's a little A? What do you mean? A little

A there.

Oh, yeah.

Well, what does the little A point you to?

Let's see.

It's in the future. It should give you reference to

the next chapter, right? No, it's 2 Chronicles. Yeah, that's

what you mean.

2 Chronicles 22.

Right, which is way after this. Before here, I think

it's mentioned in Joshua. Joshua wasn't in there? Where's your

little A? Where are you seeing it? Oh, 2 Chronicles. Yeah,

that's way after. Yeah, it's going to be.

Right there's the next one. It's in the next chapter

in verse 2. Anyway, so you're remembering the future. We

haven't got to it yet. But anyway, are you remembering,

you know?

I don't know why I was thinking there was something

in the adjustment. I'm probably wrong.

I'm probably wrong.

It actually reminded me of when Jesus went into the

wilderness to be tempted. know why.

Well, En Gedi means the eye of the fortunate. N

is eye. Gedi. Sometimes it's used as goat, but here

it means fortune. That comes from H1424. So anyway, we're

going to, it expands upon it next. It expands upon

it next. So anyway, this is a prophetic reference to

us being the apple of his eye.

Okay.

So, and that's in relationship to this angel, to this messenger.

Okay.

Let me read the whole thing. So remember, this starts

out with Melech, angel, says, but an angel came to

Saul saying, hurry and come for the Philistines have invaded

the land. Now take note, this is how the chapter started.

The Philistines are the scourge of God. That's who they are,

the scourge of God. So, take note, this angel that

was running the Philistines came to Saul and said, hey,

the Philistines have invaded the land. So Saul was absolutely

right earlier when he said Elohim. And then you realize

here that now the Elohim is deceiving him. And when

this happens, when this orchestra, because this is orchestrated, this

is an orchestra playing, and everybody's dancing to God's tune.

So he says, therefore, Saul returned from pursuing David and

went against the Philistines. whom David had already defeated in

the first verse. But anyway, so they called that place

the Rock of Escape because everybody knew God had ordered

this angel that was running the Philistines as a punishment

from God to deceive Saul into going to fight the Philistines.

instead of captured. So this is why it's called the

Rock of Escape. Then David went up from there and

dwelt in the strongholds at En Gedi. So pretty cool.

So I mean, that's why before you read it, I

wanted you to see what it's, you see messenger here

in English, but in Hebrew that's angel. It was this

Elohim from before. And this Elohim, they were all being

ran by who? God. The Tetragram of God. YHVH. So anyway.

And that's God the Father, right?

Yes.

God the Father.

So anyway, this is good prophetic stuff once you know

what it's talking about. Because if you don't know what

it's talking about, this is just a bunch of babbly book, right?

Just a bunch of yada, yada, yada. It doesn't mean

anything at all. And that is how they read it.

They read it as if it doesn't mean anything at all.

This is historical fiction to them. They don't even believe

that it's true.

It's no wonder they don't want to read it. I mean,

if you just think it's a story, then if you

read this thinking it's just a story, then you're going

to think, well, this is a poorly written story. Because

you're not reading the other parts that God's trying to

say in it. So that's why they don't read it.

Right, because they don't hear a single thing he's saying. Well,

I think I've made it perfectly obvious here that God

said everything here. He said everything here.

Yeah, he did. Everything is in here and more. That's

the preciousness of his word is that after you read it,

you can read it again and there's more. Yes. It's

part of the psalm that we read earlier today that

causes our cup to run over.

That's what.

This is. our cup runs over when we read the

scripture because we can read it again and even see

more each time.

Oh, I can see all the way to kingdom come

when I see it.

But you're still not done seeing stuff. And you proved

that time and again is that you can read something,

have been reading something over and over and over for

years and then still get something out of it. that's

the preciousness of God's word. But if you see it

as a story, then if somebody sees it as a story,

then they see it as a poorly written story because

the wording and the, and the way that things are phrased,

if it was just a story would have been phrased differently.

But we, I'm learning that when I read something that doesn't, isn't, um,

phrased as what I think it would have in a

regular story, it usually means there's something deeper there.

Yes. So if you're only reading the story.

You're not going to want to read it.

You're never going to know what it says if you're

just reading the story.

So that's why a lot of people don't read the Bible, because...

They think it's just... They're expecting it to be like

a novel.

When that's the last thing on earth it is.

Or if they don't think... If they're not expecting it

to be like a novel, they're expecting it to be

like a textbook, which it's also not. Right. Right.

Which it's also not.

But.

I say that in a different way. I've been saying

this since I was a teenager, that they read it

like it's a little golden book. To them, it's just

a story. And because of that, they literally have no

remote clue. They just... They don't have any remote clue

of what it's saying. So anyway.

So....

You want to read that? It says En Gedi.

Oh, from Song of Solomon. I wondered why you were

in the Song of Solomon.

I did it for your sake.

My beloved is to me a cluster of hen uplooms

in the vineyards of En Gedi.

We will bear fruit again, praise God. All right. That's

just about it for me. Um, Anybody have any questions

or comments? Of course, we can read Carol's comment now.

Now we're not in danger of information overload. So she

put in the Strong's definition for Elohim here. It's a

masculine noun. Translation count, 2,606 times. It's translated as God. uppercase,

God lowercase, judge, goddess, great mighty, angels, exceedingly, Godward or godly.

And then Joni puts in 1 John chapter 4, beloved

1 John 4 · chapter mention

test every spirit. Test every spirit. So here, got all

kinds of things. Literally this whole chapter is being orchestrated

spirits now they're all being well God's playing chess with

all of us and.

So in that day when we flee there's no way

we can know on our own out of wisdom knowledge

or understanding where we should go we have got to

just push everything else out and just follow Christ and

Because he's our shepherd.

As our shepherd.

To lead us through it.

Right. Yes we do. And remember this is going to

be psychologically.

And people will. And clearly people will question. And say

they're afraid. And it's saying here. That it's okay to

ask God again. It's not going to strike us down.

If we're scared. And want to ask him again. Definitely.

And that is exemplified by literally David was badgering him

because he asked him four or five times about the

same exact thing. He asked him four or five times

about the same exact thing. Okay, let's go back up there.

It's like, should I go to En Gedi? Are they

going to attack? What should I do? Therefore David inquired

of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and attack these Philistines?

And the Lord said to David, Go and attack the

Philistines and save Calam. But David's men said, Look, we're

afraid here in Judah. How much more if we go

to Killam and fight against the Philistines? So David inquired

of the Lord again.

Okay, what?

He thought God was going to change his mind? But

God didn't get mad.

He would just need reassurance. And I think in this time,

it's going to be different than other times when God

would get mad and punish for when people question him.

Because he will know that we're scared. And we're going

to be like children, fearful. And you're like, are you

sure the lightning and thunder is not going to hurt us?

Are you sure that we're okay?

Okay. I'm going to say something. And now that I'm

going to say it, it's going to make a lot

of sense to the things I've said before.

Okay.

I'm going to tell you what not to ask for. Okay.

Don't ask God, what am I going to eat? You're

going to kick him off. Don't ask God, what am

I going to drink? Just don't do it. David was

very clear in asking God, where am I supposed to be?

And what am I supposed to be doing? David knew

God was going to take care of him.

Right?

So take note. This is all about Joseph, Mary, and

baby Jesus. The only thing they needed to be was

in the right place at the right time. Because if

they weren't, they were going to fall into Herod's hands, right?

Because he was going to kill the child. All right,

so this is what's going on. So David's not doubting

that God's going to take care of him. David's just asking,

where do you want me to go and what do

you want me to do? He's not asking for necessities, right?

But David's men said to him, look, we're afraid he'll

kill them. How much more than if we go to

Kelah against the armies of the Philistines? Then David inquired

of the Lord once again. And the Lord answered to

him and said, Arise, go down to Kelah, for I

will deliver the Philistines into your hands.

Okay?

So, did he say it differently? Yeah, he did.

He said that because before the first time he said.

Before he said what?

Just to go and attack the Philistines and save Kelah.

Yeah, he.

The second time he assured them that he would deliver

the Philistines into their hands.

So it's very imperative that you understand what the people

were afraid of. There's 600 of them, right? The 600

knew David wasn't going to get killed. So they understood

God could have been telling them, go and deliver Kelah,

but it's going to cost you your life. Do you understand?

So they wanted reassurance that So then David inquired again,

and David reassured them, no, no, you're not going to

just deliver Kelah, okay? I will deliver the Philistines into

your hands. So now they had all the questions answered, right?

But nobody was stupid enough to ask God for what

they needed. Do you understand that the first answer they got,

that could have meant that I'm going to save Kelah,

but 300 of you is going to die. And they

had to wear with all to know that. They knew that.

So that's why they asked. So then God answers, Arise

and go down to Kelah, for I will deliver the

Philistines into your hands. And David and his went to

Kelah and fought with the Philistines, struck them with a

mighty blow, and took away their livestock. So David saved

the inhabitants of Kelah. So you're supposed to know, David's

600 men, they knew what was going on. They knew

this was the effect of these angels running around. They

wanted word from God himself. What's going to happen? Are

we going to go save the inhabitants of Kalah, but

we ourselves die? And God said, no, I will deliver

them into your hand. So it's not the inquiry that

gets you in trouble.

Right?

Do you understand? So if we have our flight in wintertime, okay,

we're not going to ask God, are we going to

freeze to death? Just don't do it. We're going to

ask him, so where do you want us to go?

We're not going to say, you know, so when we

get there, are we going to have steak? Just don't

do something stupid. You're alive today. Because God's breath is flowing.

That's why you're alive. You're not alive because of green

beans and carrots. You're just not.

Okay?

So that's why his men ask him, Hey, oh, we

know you're going to live forever. What about us? Are

you asking us to go deliver the inhabitants of Kalah,

but us die delivering them?

Right?

So, Needless to say, I can't get into this. I

could go on for hours delivering how much information just

that I know off of it. I mean, read the

next verse. Where have you heard, you know, well, read

verse 6. We ain't going to discuss it, but read

verse 6.

Now, it happened when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, fled

to David at Keilah. That he went down with an

e-bot in his hand.

We didn't even discuss this character. We didn't discuss what

he had. We didn't discuss where he was. We didn't

discuss where he went. We didn't even mention him. There

is a... There is a corpus of information here. Just

about that.

So....

Yeah, there's a whole lot more here than the Golden

Book version. Because the Golden Book version doesn't work very well.

I mean, this story could have obviously been told better. What?

This story could have been told better. I mean, if

you were to give this to, let's say, Professor Mary Brown,

she'd probably give you a D.

But that can't but but that's because that's for people

when you say that you're referring to people who.

Don't have an understanding right for people that's reading it

like it's a story okay can we yes we can

okay yes we can wrap it up all right everybody

looks like.

Somebody said.

I will read these comments. Joanie said, is that what

here I am, send me means? She didn't elaborate, but

her question was, is that to say, does it mean

the right place, the right time? Beautiful. That's exactly what

it means. Yes. I spoke about this yesterday in a fellowship.

An event must happen out of location. Anyway, that's, yes, Joni,

that's what it means. Here I am, Isaiah. Amen. Take

note that Isaiah is in the future. Yes, he is.

All those prophecies, he's dead and gone. Yeah. Isaiah was

called to the future. That's where Isaiah is. Those things

that is being talked about in Isaiah 28. That's in

the future. Anyway, like I said, I could go on

and on and on. I really could, couldn't I? Anyway,

all right. For Rachel's sake, that's it, ladies and gentlemen.

Until next time, God bless.

Godspeed. Bye.