“But the chiefs of the P’lishtim became angry and said to him, ‘Have the man return and go back to the place you set aside for him. Don’t let him go into battle with us, because on the battlefield he might become our enemy. What better way could there be for him to get reconciled with his lord than by [cutting off] the heads of our men?'”-1 Samuel 29:4
I wanna show you something interesting in chapter 29, verse 4.
The four Philistine Kings confront Achish and tell him to send David back to Ziklag.
Why?
Because they’re afraid that once David is on the battlefield with them, “he might become our enemy.”
The King James version says “lest in the battle he be an adversary to us.”
Now the Hebrew here might sound pretty familiar to you.
The word is SATAN.
That’s right, folks.
Most folks think Satan is the formal name for the devil.
But it’s just the common term for “adversary.”
So what’s interesting here is that we’re given clear insight about the characteristics of an adversary or a satan.
There are three to be specific.
FIRST, Satan is a backstabbing traitor.
Like Judas, it is a person who betrays.
SECOND, a satan goes to war against his former master…which is exactly what the devil did.
THIRD, a satan pretends to be loyal when he (or she) has every intention of stabbing you in the back.
So this is the Scriptural pattern set down in Scripture about how God’s enemies will come against us.
Kinda gives us a new perspective when the Muslim nations call Israel the little “satan” and America the big “satan”, doesn’t it?
CONNECTING THIS TEACHING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
“Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread,
called the Passover, was approaching,
and the chief priests and the teachers of the law
were looking for some way to get rid of Yeshua,
for they were afraid of the people.
Then Satan entered Judas,
called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.
And Judas went to the chief priests
and the officers of the temple guard
and discussed with them how
he might betray Yeshua.”
-Luke 22:1-4
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