Today we begin 1st Samuel Chapter 26.
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It’s Groundhog Day for David as Saul hunts him down once again.
Saul seemed to have forgotten his remorseful words to David when he realized David had spared his life in the cave.
During that moment, Saul was so sure God had chosen David as king that he begged David not to harm his children and descendants when he took the throne.
Those words of repentance meant nothing.
Saul had returned to his murderous ways and his mission to kill David at all costs.
This goes to show just how fickle Saul was.
He was deranged at best or an evil liar at worst.
Now, as the focus shifts from Saul to David, I need to let you know we’re approaching a part of Scripture whose truthfulness is held in dispute by some Christian scholars.
What am I talking about?
I’m talking about assertions from Christian scholars that the stories about David in the Bible are propaganda rather than divine truth.
To be fair, Hebrew scholars tend to view David as an almost flawless and perfect being.
They’ll make up all sorts of weird excuses to justify David’s wrong behavior.
But on the other side of the fence, some Christian scholars (those from the ridiculous Literary Criticism school of thought) will assert that what we read in Samuel was rewritten to make David look good, and to make Saul look bad.
I’m telling you this is simply NOT true.
From the very beginning of our study of Samuel, I have framed Saul as a prototype of the Anti-Christ…
And David as a prototype of God’s anointed Messiah.
That’s the viewpoint I’m going to be promoting…
And I assert that’s the Scriptural perspective that prevails up to the Book of Revelation.
When I say Saul foreshadows the anti-Christ, I ain’t kidding homies.
In both his attitude and actions, he would’ve given Hitler a run for his money.
We’ll continue this discussion the next time we meet.
If David was supposed to look so perfect, how does Christianity explain the record of David’s sins, such as wanting to destroy Nabal and the innocent people working for him from a prideful reaction?
What about the adultery with Bat-Sheba?
What about having Uriah, her husband, killed because he was too honorable to sleep with his wife after David got him drunk, in order to cover up the preganancy David’s sin resulted in?
How about sinning against his army commander by having him be the instrument through which David’s plan of murder was accomplished: murder of one of David’s best friends, someone who was one of the “Thirty”?
Oh, and the census, a direct sin against God showing distrust, even after all the victories God had given him?
You know what I say? I say that Christianity has lied about the Messiah for millennia, so why not lie about David, as well?
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