1S28-1: Grafted Into The Olive Tree – The Only Path To Salvation For Gentiles

Today we begin 1 Samuel Chapter 28.

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“In due time the P’lishtim assembled their armies for war against Isra’el. Akhish told David, ‘You know, of course, that you and your men will join me and the army in battle.’  David answered Akhish, ‘I see that you already know what your servant will do.’ Akhish said to David, ‘For that answer, I am making you my personal bodyguard for life.‘”-1 Samuel 28:1-2

Alrighty, let’s get our bearings.

Depending on your Bible translation, things kick off with the phrase “in those days” or “in due time.”

This is a typical Hebrew phrase that means not a lot of time had passed between the events of chapter 27 and chapter 28.

So we’re told the Philistines had prepared their armies to launch a major offensive against Israel yet again (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?).

We’re not told the reason why this confrontation was about to happen.

Why?

Because the Biblical author deemed it wasn’t important to the purpose of the story.

Achish tells David he fully expects him to join him in this battle against Israel.

David’s response is interesting.

He says…

“I see that you already know what your servant will do.”

If you examine David’s words closely, you’ll notice there was no promise of loyalty or commitment to fight alongside Achish. 

All David said was the king was well aware of his prowess on the battlefield.

Nevertheless, Achish was so pleased with David’s response he said:

‘For that answer, I am making you my personal bodyguard for life.'”

In Hebrew, he referred to David as a LE’ROSH.

This means “Keeper of my head.”

So David would become his private bodyguard.

The truth was David was playing a dangerous game.

Up until now, David’s choice to leave his people and the land of Israel had proven advantageous.

But that was about to change.

He was in a situation where he had to make a public stand.

When he faced his fellow Hebrews on the battlefield would he fight for or against them?

There’s a huge takeaway here.

David somehow believed he could separate himself from Israel without betraying Israel.

He was soon going to learn that wasn’t possible.

Many portions of the gentile Christian church (and Christian commentators like Candace Owens) also mistakenly feel this way.

Some of them think they can be for God while at the same time being pro-Palestinian.

They forget how Ruth was grafted into Israel.

She said…

“Wherever you go, I will go;
wherever you live, I will live.
Your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.
Wherever you die, I will die,
and there I will be buried.”
-Ruth 1:16-17

Notice she didn’t say…

“Your people will NOT be my people,
but your God will be my God.”

That’s a position a good portion of the gentile church has taken.

How else do you think they can be so anti-law, anti-Semitic, and pro-Palestinian while at the same time worshipping the Jewish Messiah?

Only by bowing down to some aberrational theology that says the gentile church has replaced Israel.

That’s the only way they can embrace such a position…

And it’s a satanic lie straight from the pit of hell.

So let me remind you for like the umpteenth time…

If you’re a gentile believer, your salvation is based on the covenants God HAS ONLY MADE WITH ISRAEL!

And that INCLUDES the New Covenant.

In fact, the New Covenant IS the Old Covenant written onto the hearts of believers.

Got it?

Remember the Messiah was sent ONLY to Israel.

Get that FACT properly embedded into the deepest and most inner parts of your cranium.

If you’re a gentile, you can participate in these covenants through your faith in the Jewish Messiah.

But you are grafted into the commonwealth of Israel.

Not the other way around homie.

You join them.

They do NOT join you.

Israel is the Olive Tree a gentile is grafted into.

You can’t try and grow another anti-law, anti-Semitic, and pro-Palestinian olive tree and then turn around and say it’s ordained by God.

Ya feel me?

CONNECTING THIS TEACHING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT

^“If some of the branches have been broken off,
and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been
grafted in among the others and now share in
the nourishing sap from the olive root,  do not
consider yourself to be superior to
those other branches.
If you do, consider this: You do not
support the root, but the root supports you.
You will say then, “Branches were broken off
so that I could be grafted in.” Granted.
But they were broken off because of unbelief,
and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant,
but tremble. For if God did not spare the
natural branches, he will not spare you either.
Consider therefore the kindness and sternness
of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness
to you, provided that you continue in his kindness.
Otherwise, you also will be cut off.  And if they do
not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in,
for God is able to graft them in again. After all,
if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild
by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted
into a cultivated olive tree, how much more
readily will these, the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree!”
-Romans 11:17-24