Let’s get our bearings on where we’re at.
So David has just approached Ahimelech at Nob to get some food and a weapon.
However, the only food available was the special holy bread meant for the priests.
Yet Ahimelech decided to give David some of this bread anyway.
Now, what’s interesting is this event became so famous, that people remember it even 1000 years later.
Let’s take a look at the following section from the New Testament:
“One Sabbath Yeshua was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?’
He answered, ‘Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
Then he said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.'”
Isn’t this interesting?
We see Yeshua referring back to this story when David approached Ahimelech for some food and a weapon.
But more importantly, notice how Yeshua connects this incident to the Sabbath.
This leads me to believe it was on the Shabbat that this incident happened…
Which also means David was fleeing on the Shabbat.
Now connect this to what Yeshua said in Matthew 24 concerning the end times:
“Pray that your flight will
not take place in winter
or on the Sabbath.”
-Matthew 24:20
Here’s what I want you to grasp.
It is no coincidence that we have David…
Who is God’s chosen Messiah at this time…
Fleeing from the anti-Messiah (King Saul) on the Shabbat…
And Yeshua connecting this event to the Sabbath dispute he was having with the Pharisees in Matthew 24.
Then further connecting this event to the end times appearance of the anti-Christ…
When believers will be told to run to the hills from Judah…
And pray this event will not take place in the winter…
Or on Shabbat.
This organic connection between the “Old” and the New is awesome.
And that’s your takeaway for today.
The so-called “Old” Testament and the New Testament are two parts of the same story.
It is with sad and tragic consequences that the gentile church has separated the Bible into two sections…
Then falsely declared one section is dead and gone…
And saying it has been replaced by the New.
We’ll continue talking about this the next time we meet.
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