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We're gonna pick it up today 1 Samuel
chapter 21, verse five.
And with chapter 21, we begin another phase
of David, King David's life.
That is, the phase where he's on the run for his life
from Saul and Saul's servants, the armies of Saul.
And I kind of think David is searching for some guidance
from our Heavenly Father at this point in his life.
I mean, he has nothing but the shirt on his back.
And he goes, where did he go, the first place?
He went to Ahimelech, the high priest.
And I think he's looking not only for some assistance
because all he has is the shirt on his back.
But he's also hoping for some guidance
from our Heavenly Father.
That's one thing that David and all the future kings
of Judah and some of the kings of Israel
would be compared to David as far as
whether they walked with the Lord as King David did.
David wasn't perfect, now don't get me wrong.
We're gonna see some terrible things that he did
when we get to 2 Samuel.
In my opinion, they were terrible.
But he's human and he's in the flesh.
But not once did David get into idolatry.
Not once did he turn away from the Lord.
And he trusted the Lord and had confidence in the Lord.
I think that's part of the reason
that he went to Ahimelech.
But Ahimelech, the high priest, was a little suspicious.
Here David shows up alone,
has no weapons with him.
All he has is basically the shirt on his back.
And Ahimelech asked, what's going on,
and why are you here?
And David lied, actually, to Ahimelech.
He said the king sent me on some business.
And you asked where my men are.
Well, I told them to wait for me at such-and-such
a place, that I'll catch up with 'em there.
But then he's asking for bread
as we left off our last lecture.
And Ahimelech, the high priest, said,
I don't have any common bread or normal bread
that people would normally eat, consume for food.
But I do have the hallowed bread,
and that, of course, would be the shewbread.
If you translate that literally,
it means the bread of the face.
And it was to be eaten strictly by the priest
and only in the holy place.
But Ahimelech told David, well, if the men with you
haven't been with women, in other words,
they haven't defiled themself through intercourse,
then I'll give you the shewbread.
And that's where we left off in our last lecture.
Let's ask that word of wisdom in Yeshua's precious name.
Father, we ask you to open eyes, open ears this day.
We pick it up 1 Samuel chapter 21, verse five.
And David answered the priest, Ahimelech,
and said unto him, of a truth, women have been
kept from us about these three days, for the three days
since I left Jerusalem, I, nor any of my men,
have been with women.
And the vessels of the young men are holy.
This means that our clothing is also clean and not defiled.
And the bread is in a manner common, yea,
though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
And this kind loses it.
What David is claiming here is to be on a royal mission
for Saul, who is the anointed of God.
Even though God has rejected Saul,
he's still seen by the people as God's anointed.
Verse six, so the priest gave him hallowed bread,
the shewbread.
For there was no bread there but the shewbread
that was taken from before the Lord
to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
For those of you not familiar with the Tabernacle,
in the most inner part of the Tabernacle,
you would have the Holy of Holies,
where the Ark of the Covenant would normally be kept.
At this point in time, the Mosaic tent is at Nob,
but the Ark is at (mumbles), so the Ark is not there.
But then normally in the Tabernacle,
just outside the Holy of Holies, you would have
the menorah, the seven candlestick candle holder.
You would also have the shewbread table,
which the shewbread would be replaced every seven days.
And there was one loaf of shewbread, or a wafer,
probably better said, of shewbread,
because it was unleavened, for each of the tribes of Israel.
And when they stacked them on the shewbread table,
the priest, when I say they, there would be two stacks
of six, one on each end of the shewbread table.
And also you would have the altar of incense offering
in that immediate area as well.
And that's what it meant was taken from before the Lord,
that's what they were talking about from before
the Holy of Holies, although at this point in time,
it's not there.
We see Ahimelech is kind of stretching the law
considerably here.
The shewbread was to be eaten by the priest only.
And they're kinda saying, well, they are on a royal mission
for God's anointed, so we'll let that be.
But then it was supposed to be eaten in the holy place,
not to leave the holy place, that being the inner court.
But David's gonna be allowed to take it
to give it to his men.
Verse seven.
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there
that day detained before the Lord.
And his name was Doeg, the Edomite.
He was of Esau.
The chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
Now this is trouble waiting to happen.
Doeg is no doubt favored by Saul,
or he wouldn't be the chiefest of the herdmen.
And then you know that he's going to tell Saul
what's going on, that Ahimelech is assisting David.
In Psalm 52, the title of Psalm 52
is concerning Doeg when he told Saul
that Ahimelech was helping David.
You might make a note of that.
Now why was Doeg detained with the priest?
Well, there could be several reasons for that.
One, that he might be there for a purification.
Another possibility would be that he was converting.
He was an Edomite, which is not of the tribes of Israel.
He had a different religion, and maybe he converted
to the religion of Israel, the Hebrews.
Another reason that he could possibly be detained
with the priest, if he was suspected of having leprosy,
that would be another reason that someone would
have to stay, for the priest to observe the leprosy
to see if it had grown, and make a determination
if it was indeed leprosy at all.
In Doeg also we see a type for the Antichrist.
Verse eight, and David said unto Ahimelech,
and is there not here under thine hand spear or sword?
For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons
with me because the king's business required haste.
Does that sound like that's the truth to you?
David, a warrior, killed tens of thousands
of Philistines, the women of Israel sang when he returned,
and he left his weapons?
I don't think he would've been in that big of a hurry.
He's again stretching the truth, at best.
Verse nine, and the priest said, the sword of Goliath
the Philistine, whom thou slewest int he valley of Elah,
behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod.
If thou wilt take that, take it.
For there is no other save that here.
And David said there is none like that, give it to me.
And after all, if anyone should be entitled to that sword,
it would certainly be David in that he was the only one
of Israel who had the brass to stand up
to the giant Goliath and slew him and took his sword
away from him and cut off his head with it.
The cloth behind the ephod, it's wrapped in cloth
behind the ephod.
In other words, it was kept in a very honored
or prized place.
The ephod contained the urim and the thummim
of which the people inquired of the Lord through the priest.
Verse 10, and David arose and fled that day
for fear of Saul and went to Achish, the king of Gath.
Now wait a minute.
Who was Goliath, the Philistine giant?
He was the champion of Gath.
And David's running to the Philistines?
Perhaps he thought that it had been enough time
had passed since he slew Goliath
that the people wouldn't recognize him.
I think at this point in David's life he's confused really,
and he never lost confidence in the Lord,
don't take me wrong.
But he doesn't know what the Lord wants him to do.
He needs some guidance from a prophet of God.
The Lord needs to tell him what to do.
That's soon to come about.
But here he's gone to Achish, the king of Gath,
the home of the giant, the Philistine Goliath.
And remember, the ladies of Israel sang Saul
has killed his thousands, David has killed
his tens of thousands, and we're talking about Philistines.
Verse 11, and the servants of Achish said unto him,
is not this David, the king of the land?
Did they not sing one to another of him in dances,
saying, Saul hath slain his thousands
and David his tens of thousands?
They call him the king of the land.
They don't have any inkling that Samuel
has anointed David the king of Israel.
What this means is that by his deeds,
they see him as the king of the land
in that he slew their champion, Goliath,
and also tens of thousands of Philistines.
Now remember, these Philistines that David slew
were probably the brothers, fathers,
uncles, sons,
of the very Philistines who are saying,
wait a minute, I think I recognize that man.
That's David.
And David laid up these words in his heart.
He listened to what they were saying
and was mulling it over in his mind
and was sore afraid of Achish, the king of Gath.
And a lot of others besides Goliath,
he'd killed the champion of Gath
and a lot of others besides.
Well, what will David do?
He's kind of in a pickle here,
and we're gonna see David who is
very quicker thinker on his feet.
Verse 13, and he changed his behavior before them
and feigned himself, this means he acted mad
in their hands, and scrabbled, he made marks,
on the doors of the gate and let his spittle fall down
upon his beard.
Now this was very sharp of David.
They were about to, when they say in their hands,
this means they were physically trying to subdue David,
and no doubt had they done so, they probably
would've killed him.
But what does he do, he acts like he's crazy, scrabbling
senseless writings and marks on the gate
of the city of Gath, letting spittle or drool
run down his beard.
Verse 14, then said Achish unto his servants,
lo, ye see the man is mad.
Wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
Why are you bringing this crazy man
in my presence, the king of Gath is saying.
At this point in time, Achish probably thinks David
is crazy for coming to Gath in the first place.
Verse 15, have I need of mad men
that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man
in my presence, shall this fellow come into my house?
Do you think I wanna invite him over for dinner?
He's clearly out of his mind, get him out of here.
Now Achish will eventually though befriend David.
In fact, he gives David a city in the land of the Philistine
so that he would have a place to encamp
and to be safe, if you will,
from the armies of Saul.
David was very wise, but he's hurting at this point
in his life, he's lost everything.
He lost his family.
That will be short-lived, that's about to be remedied
in chapter 22, but he lost his king, his country,
his wife, his best friend Jonathan.
Basically, again, all he has is the shirt on his back.
But he does have faith and confidence in the Lord,
and that Lord will provide his needs.
David expresses his state of mind in writing
during this period of time.
Make a note if you'd like to make a side study,
Psalm 34, Psalm 52, which I mention is entitled
when Doeg told Saul about what Ahimelech had done.
And then also Psalm 56.
That's Psalm 34, 52, and 56.
Chapter 22, David finds himself hiding in a cave,
and his family comes to him.
Let's go with chapter 22, verse one.
David, therefore, departed thence, from Gath
and Achish meaning, and escaped to the cave Adullam.
And this cave is mentioned in the title of the Psalm 57,
Adullam, the cave Adullam is also mentioned in Joshua
chapter 15, verse 35, in the lowlands of Judah.
And when his brethren and all his father's house,
his family, in other words, heard it,
they went down thither to him.
David's family was tight-knit, they were very close.
And no doubt his family was finding
it difficult to be in a nation
that Saul was the king.
You see, Saul had become so desperate
to get David, to kill David, that he no doubt
would've kidnapped any member of David's house
that he thought David would be tempted
to come and try and help them, to free them.
So it's probably a good thing that David's family
is getting out of the rule of Saul, again,
because Saul would make it, if not difficult
for David's family, he would use them to capture David.
Verse two, and every one that was in distress,
these are not David's family, but others
who were in Israel that were in distress.
And every one that was in debt, and every one
that was discontented, discontented by the rule
of godless Saul, gathered themselves unto him,
and he became a captain over them,
and there were with him about 400 men.
And they're certainly a ragtag army.
This army would soon grow to 600 when we get
to chapter 23, verse 13, it will have grown to 600.
Many of these people were named in 1 Chronicles
chapters 11 and 12 as David's heroes,
or his 30 mighty men.
Now some of these were not of the sort
that you would want probably if you were picking
the cream of the crop.
We've got people who were in debt.
We've got people who were in distress,
some of them discontented.
No doubt, some of that they brought on themselves.
But David, a proven warrior,
could whip this ragtag army into shape
where they would be able to challenge the thousands
of Saul's armies with no problem.
Why, because God was with David.
No doubt many of these people sensed the presence
of God was with David.
You can tell someone who has spiritual discernment.
You can tell if God is with someone or not with someone.
God had rejected Saul, and his spirit was upon David.
I think people were attracted to that.
Verse three, and David went thense to Mizpeh of Moab.
And he said unto the king of Moab,
let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth,
or from their home to you, in other words.
And be with you till I know what God will do for me.
Now why Moab?
Well, many of you know that David's grandfather,
well, actually, it was his great grandfather Boaz
took a wife of the Moabites.
Her name was Ruth.
We're talking about family here being Moabites.
So David's getting his parents to a safe location
until he sees how the situation with Saul
shakes out of the sack.
He's getting them secure in a place where Saul
won't be able to utilize them against David
by kidnapping them.
Verse four, and he brought them before
the king of Moab, his parents, in other words.
And they dwelt with him all the while
that David was in the hold, the cave, in other words.
In Hebrew this means a fastness such as a stronghold,
a strong place.
Verse five, David's about to hear from the Lord.
And the prophet Gad, this is a true prophet of God,
said unto David, abide not in the hold.
Don't stay in the cave Adullam.
Depart and get thee into the land of Judah.
Then David departed, he obeyed, that's a good thing to do.
And came into the forest of Hareth.
This would be located in Judah.
But God has intended for David to be
the next king of Israel.
And he's encouraging him to get closer
to Jerusalem, no doubt.
But he wants him back in the homeland.
You're going to be the king is the message
that God has for David,
and you need to learn to trust the Lord to be your place
and your stronghold that you can go to,
a place of refuge.
Verse six, when Saul heard that David was discovered,
where David was, and the men that were with him,
now Saul abode in Gibeah under the tree in Ramah,
having his spear in his hand.
and all his servants were standing about him,
a high-level meeting going on about.
Now a couple things on this verse.
Gibeah is where the home of Saul was.
Ramah was the home of Samuel.
This is a terrible translation.
He was in Gibeah, and it should've been translated
in the groves in the high place,
which is what Ramah means.
Ramah is a different place than Gibeah is my point.
Now Saul is standing around with a spear in his hand.
And if you've been studying with us through 1 Samuel,
you know when Saul has the javelin or the spear
in his hand, people need to watch out.
Three times he's tried to run David through
to the wall with the javelin.
He even tried to kill his own son Jonathan
with a javelin, so no doubt the people who were close
to Saul knew about that.
And if I were them, I'd be a little leery
any time I was standing around with Saul
having a spear in his hand.
Verse seven, then Saul said unto his servants
that stood about him, hear now, ye Benjamites,
will the son of Jesse, that's David,
give every one of you fields and vineyards
and make you all captains of thousands
and captains of hundreds.
Saul, being a Benjamite,
the men of Benjamin had no doubt benefited
from Saul being the king.
And what Saul's saying is you guys better
think about this a little bit.
Do you think David, being of Judah,
is going to give you vineyards and fields?
Do you think he's going to appoint you
to be the captain of his thousands
or captain of his hundreds?
I've been taking good care of you,
and you better think about this.
That all of you have conspired against me,
and there is none that showeth me that my son,
that's Jonathan, hath made a league with the son of Jesse,
that being David, and there is none of you
that is sorry for me or showeth unto me that my son
hath stirred up my servant, that's David,
against me, to lie in wait, as this day.
Wah, wah, wah.
You talk about a poor me baby.
He's making stuff up.
David is not to lie in wait means David intends
to murder Saul.
Well, by the time we get to the end of 1 Samuel,
David will have had two opportunities to kill Saul.
And he passes both times, so David has no intention
of killing Saul.
Now whether, you remember, David and Jonathan
made a covenant, with God as their witness
and judge, of secrecy, that neither of them
would tell anyone about their plan
for Jonathan to let David know whether it was safe
for him to stay, or whether he should flee.
And I don't think either one, Jonathan or David,
broke that pledge or covenant of secrecy.
I think that Saul has just finally put all this together.
Saul was not a dummy, he was crazy,
a mad man, but he was nobody's dummy.
And I think he's kinda put things together
that Jonathan was helping David,
and that's where he put all this together.
Verse nine, then answered Doeg, uh-oh, here we go.
The Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul.
Well, he's been promoted, and he's looking for
another promotion, and said, I saw the son of Jesse
coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
Well, I'll take those vineyards and fields
that you were talking to your Benjamites about.
I'll take another promotion, let me tell you
what I saw when I was at Nob with Ahimelech.
Verse 10, and he inquired, this being David,
inquired of the Lord for him, or I should say
Ahimelech inquired of the Lord for David
and gave him victuals, he gave him bread
from the shewbread table and gave him the sword
of Goliath the Philistine.
Always the accuser, Satan's role.
And I mentioned that Doeg was a type for Antichrist.
Satan in his role as Antichrist would definitely
be accusing, but here, Doeg is spilling the beans.
This is equal to the death sentence
for Ahimelech and 85 of the priests at Nob.
Verse 11, then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest,
the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house,
the priests that were in Nob, and they came,
all of them to the king.
When the king calls, you go.
And Saul said, hear now, thou son of Ahitub.
And he answered, here I am, my Lord.
Now Ahimelech is basically innocent in all of this.
Yes, he helped David, but he knew who David was.
He was the king's son-in-law.
And Ahimelech thinks, well, you would want me to help
your servant, your son-in-law, David.
If I was helping David, I would think I was helping you.
I didn't know that you were after David.
Verse 13, and Saul said unto him,
why have you conspired against me,
thou and the son of Jesse?
Notice Saul has quit calling him David.
Over and over and over he's called him the son of Jesse.
In that thou has given him bread and a sword
and hast inquired of God for him,
that he would rise against me to lie in wait at this day.
David's trying to kill me, and you helped him.
Dangerous situation for Ahimelech.
And Ahimelech, I think, responds very, very intelligently.
Then Ahimelech answered the king and said,
and who is so faithful among all thy servants as David,
which is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding.
And this means he has a private audience.
He has your face at any time that he chooses.
And is honorable in thine house.
That's truth.
As Jonathan was often the voice of reason,
Ahimelech is a voice of reason here.
He's saying David should be treated well
in your house because he's committed no crime against you.
To the contrary, he defeated the champion of Gath.
He served you as your armor-bearer.
And he killed tens of thousands of the Philistines.
I thought if I was helping David,
I would be helping you, Saul.
Verse 15, did I then begin to inquire of God for him,
question, be it far from me.
I would not commit a conspiracy
against God's anointed, the king.
Let not the king impute, this means to charge,
anything unto his servant, nor to all the house
of my father, for thy servant knew nothing
of all this, less or more.
This is a Hebrewism, a figure of speech
in the Hebrew language, the less or more.
That means little or great.
And it means I didn't know anything about this,
and I'm innocent, so please don't charge me
or my family, the priests.
Verse 16, and the king said, thou shalt surely die
Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
When we started this chapter, I pointed out
that Ahimelech was of the house of Eli.
And what we're gonna see is God's judgment
on the house of Eli that was stated in chapters two
and three of this book of 1 Samuel
is about to be carried out
because of what Eli and his two sons, Hophni
and Phinehas did, God said I'm not going,
they sent a prophet to Eli and said
there's not gonna be a man old enough in your house,
your family, to be the high priest.
God's about to take the high priesthood
away from the house of Eli, which was the house of Ithamar.
The priesthood was supposed to be in the descendants
of Eliezer, that is about to be worked out
under David's kingship.
Well, it's not looking good for Ahimelech
or the inhabitants of Nob.
Saul considers what Ahimelech did as treason
against him, he's gonna put a total ban on Nob.
That means every man, woman, child,
every ox, sheep, is to be slaughtered.
God gave that order to Saul
concerning the Amalekites earlier in 1 Samuel, you remember?
And they spared the king of the Amalekites.
They spared the best of the ox and the sheep
to keep for themselves.
That was the reason that God rejected Saul in part.
That was the second time that Saul had refused
or rejected the order, the command of God.
Well, how will this all work out?
Don't miss the next lecture.
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The repentance.
Giving much personal instruction as far as controlling
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defining those things that come from the word of God.
Example, that bitter and sweet water
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Well, from God's word, you should not have both, either.
The practice of healing brought forth
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I know you're gonna like it.
James, that great book of instruction.
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First up today, we got Alice in Michigan.
Tell me about false prophets.
What are their characteristics?
I want to know so I may recognize them in the end times.
Well, what you need to do, Alice, then,
is to learn the word of God.
Study his word.
And then when someone teaches something
that's contrary to that, you know
that they are a false prophet.
A prophet can also be translated a teacher.
You can read a lot about false prophets
and what God thinks about them in Ezekiel chapter 13,
about those who would teach his people to fly
to save their soul.
Dick in North Carolina, in Genesis chapter four,
verses one and two, it sounds to me like Adam fathered Cain.
Well, it's because you don't understand
the Hebrew language, for one.
In Genesis chapter four, verse one, it states
that Eve gave birth to Cain, and then again,
in verse two, which if you take that back to the Hebrew
means she continued in labor and gave birth to Abel.
So now tell me, what has happened if a woman
gives birth to one child, and then turns around
and gives birth to another child?
She had twins, correct?
That's what Cain and Abel were was twins.
The only thing that you don't need to understand, though,
is that they were fathered by two different fathers.
And if you don't believe that's possible,
ask your family doctor the next time you're seeing him.
But Cain had a different father than Abel.
That's the reason that you won't find Cain
in Adam's genealogy, which you can find his genealogy
in Genesis chapter five.
On the other hand, Cain's genealogy you'll find
in Genesis chapter four.
It's quite separate, it's quite different
from that of Adam.
That's why Cain and Abel
reached the age of accountability
where they were both making sacrifice at the same time.
They were the same age, they were twins.
Lily in Washington, my son, who was 28 years old,
passed away, and then you give the date.
I know he is not in that urn,
but that his soul has left this Earth.
My heart is broken and I am so sad,
but I keep moving on, taking care of home.
I have another son who is currently serving in the Navy.
Tell your son we said thank you for serving our country.
Please keep me in our prayers.
I talked to our Father asking him to give my son
a hug and kiss for me, is that okay to ask?
Thank you, and God bless.
Nothing wrong with that request at all.
And know that you're in our prayers as well, Lily.
Losing a child
is kind of out of the normal order
of things of life.
The parents are the ones who usually pass away
before the children, and again, it's out of normal order
when a child passes first, and I think it makes it
even more difficult, but you're in our prayers.
Know he's with the Father, and the Father
can give him a hug for you.
Joe in Nevada.
Pastor Arnold said the generation of the fig tree
began in 1948.
He also said that there were three generations
in the bible, a 40 year, a 70 year,
and a 120 year generation, correct.
Then in Mark 13:20, Jesus said,
for the elect's sake, he had shortened the days.
And in Revelation 9:5, the locusts are only here
for five months, locusts are from May through September,
the season of the locust.
So if you take 1948 and add 70 years,
that comes out to May 2018.
Well now, let's back up.
Revelation chapter nine does not mean
that the Antichrist comes in May,
in other words, it doesn't mean that he can't come
in December, that's not what it's saying.
It's saying that if he comes in December,
it will be for a five-month period.
Don't take it to mean it's May through September.
That's stated to give us the length of time,
not the exact months.
And then you go on, I know Jesus said in Matthew 24:42,
keep watch because you don't know the exact day, we don't.
So is it wrong for me to be looking for Satan
the Antichrist to appear on Earth
in May of 2018?
Nothing wrong with that, but remember,
always protect your credibility.
Those who go setting dates of saying Jesus or Antichrist
is coming in May of 2018,
and then that date comes and goes,
how much credibility do they have?
How about goose egg, zero credibility.
So be careful.
Always remember what Jesus said.
No man knows the exact hour.
We are to be watchmen and we are to keep watch
and we are to know the season,
but no one knows exactly when this comes to pass.
Sandra from Alabama.
My mom recently passed away.
There were so many things I wanted to tell her,
but I did not get a chance.
Is there a way the dead can hear us?
Do they visit us?
Well, I've known instances where when a family member
was having a particularly difficult time
with a loss of a loved one, that God would allow
the soul of the deceased to visit
the one who remained alive in the flesh
to let 'em know they're not dead.
We don't have a God of the dead.
We have a God of the living.
Abraham is not dead, Isaac is not dead,
Jacob is not dead, no one is dead
in the soul at this point in time.
The death of the soul is called the second death
in God's word.
Satan has already been judged to that in the Lake of Fire.
I believe the fallen angels, the Nephilim,
are also judged to that death.
But at this point in time,
no one is dead, including Satan.
Their soul.
Caleb in Georgia, I'm eight years old.
We homeschool on my farm.
I watch Shepherd's Chapel with my parents
in the morning and at night.
And if you wrote this yourself at eight years old,
you're doing really good in school.
My question is, would God want me to be friends
with someone who believes different than me and my family?
Like he believes in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny stuff,
and like eating pork and shrimp.
Am I supposed to tell him what we believe or not?
Well, it's okay to plant a seed, Caleb,
and then leave it alone.
If this person is a good friend to you,
good friends are hard to come by.
And if he believes differently than you and you guys
get in arguments when you discuss religion,
don't discuss religion, just be good friends.
The main thing is for you to be strong in your beliefs
and your faith so that someone is not able to pull you away.
And you continue also, I get very angry very easy
and want to know how to not get so mad.
My mom and dad say that getting mad is not wrong,
just that it has to be about the right things,
the things that go against God,
not because I don't get my way.
Well, Jesus got angry, make a note of Matthew
chapter 21, verse 10, and the following verses.
I mean, he made a cat of nine tails, that's a whip.
And he ran the money changers out of the temple.
He turned their tables over.
He ran those who sold doves out of the temple.
And he said, you know, my Father's house
is a house of prayer, and you made it a den of thieves.
So what would we call that that Jesus got?
Yeah, he was mad, he was angry.
But also he had righteous indignation.
That means he got angry for the right reasons.
He had the right to get angry because of the way
people were treating God's house.
Hope that helps.
Proud of you, and again, if you wrote that yourself
at eight, I'm impressed with your homeschool teacher.
I'll bet that's your mom.
Carol in New York, when I was six years old,
my grandmother, which is my mother's mom, passed away.
I loved her very much.
Some people tell me that it's a sin to say
you can talk to the dead.
When I was 12 years old, I was crying
because I missed my grandmother.
I was up at midnight watching TV when crying
about my grandmother.
I saw her sitting at the end of the bed.
And when I saw her, I reached over to hug her
to tell her I love her, but then she went away.
I don't believe we die, I believe we return to our Father.
I think she saw me crying and came back to tell me
she was okay and with our Heavenly Father.
So is that okay if I saw her at the foot of the bed
and that I've talked to her to tell her
I loved her and missed her?
Thank you again for being in my life.
Well, you're welcome, and thanks for being part
of our life as well.
And that fits just exactly with what I was talking
with the previous question that God,
when someone's having an extremely difficult
with a loss, he allows the soul of the deceased
to come back to comfort.
My wife had a similar experience
when her mother was unexpectedly killed
some years ago, but yes, that's very possible.
And when you talk about it being wrong to talk
to the dead, what that is talking about, Carol,
is if you try and use a medium,
such as one of these jokers, I'll call 'em what they are,
on television that claims that they can talk
to one of your family members who's gone on.
The fact is, we're gonna be getting to someone
who is like that in 1 Samuel.
She's called the Witch of Endor.
She was a medium that said that she could
bring up the spirit of Samuel for Saul to talk to.
And it made God very angry, that makes God angry.
But when what you experienced happens,
it does not make God angry, he's trying to comfort you.
Bill in Arizona, where is it in the bible that says
what comes around goes around?
Can you help me, please?
Well, I think Exodus chapter one, verse 24
gets that said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Also Galatians chapter six, verse seven states
that God will not be mocked, we reap what we sow.
And that's kind of saying what you put out
is what you're gonna get back.
What comes around goes around.
Carl in, don't know where Carl's from.
Is it required...
I'm concerned, I'm trying to find the question.
Is it required to be in the body of Christ
that our baptism by immersion
is the only acceptable baptism,
or was the Sabbath observance of the baptism
through immersion nailed to cross with Jesus?
Well, I don't believe baptism is a requirement
for salvation, many people incorrectly teach
that John chapter three, verse five, that states
that you have to be born of woman
means that you have to be baptized to enter
the kingdom of God.
What that's saying there in John is you got to be born
in the flesh to enter the kingdom of God.
As opposed to the fallen angels who refused
to be born of woman.
And this is from Cindy,
and I don't know where Cindy's from.
My fiance and I have been watching your show,
Shepherd's Chapel, for two to three years now,
and you have helped us understand many mysteries
that other pastors and ministers could not.
I praise God for you.
And let me get to your question, and thank you for that.
My fiance and I have been living together
for nearly 10 years.
We love each other very much, but we are still not married.
In the past, we were both married before to spouses
who cheated on us multiple times.
We plan on getting married.
Are we living in sin?
Well, in God's eyes, a couple who has intercourse,
what God's word said is when a man spreads his skirt
over a woman, that they're married.
And what that means is when they
have intercourse, they're married.
Here at the Chapel, we teach that if children
are a possibility as a result of your marriage,
that we recommend that you get a civil marriage license
which protects the rights of the children,
meaning that in the event that the marriage has problems
and eventually ends in divorce, then the children
have rights that are protected
if you have a civil marriage license.
Child support, for example.
Lois, and we don't know where Lois is from.
Nobody's catching the states here.
I've been studying with Shepherd's Chapel
over seven years, and I thank God for your program.
I'm 83 years old, and as I have moved around,
I would be unable to get you on TV for a period of time,
and then all of a sudden I would come across it
and change my schedule to watch.
I now get up at 4:30 and have my breakfast at five
with Shepherd's Chapel, that's a good way
to start your day.
Also in the past year, God has blessed me
with a smart phone.
Now I can get the study when I can't get it on TV.
God is good.
Now we get to your question.
I have heard a lot of times that the United States
is mentioned in the bible as a land divided by rivers,
but didn't get or can't remember the actual scriptures.
I haven't yet been able to find it, can you help?
Yes, I can Isaiah chapter 18, verse two
is the scripture you're looking for.
That's Isaiah chapter 18, verse two.
In fact, it is the first four or five verses
of that chapter are talking about
the United States, I believe.
It states there in verse two of Isaiah 18
that the rivers spoil the land.
That means they divide if it was translated properly.
Janice in Nebraska, are the Nethinims
the same as the Kenite?
No, Nethinim is a Hebrew word
from the prime word (mumbles),
which means to fall, and that's the fallen angels
of Genesis chapter six and Jude chapter one, verse six.
Kenites, the very word means descendants of Cain.
In Revelation chapter 12, verse six
and the following verses, those Nethinim
are coming back when Michael boots
Satan and his angels out of Heaven.
Joseph in Pennsylvania.
I watch Shepherd's Chapel every day.
Okay.
Let me read this, broadcast on Ephesians,
your father said that Elijah didn't die.
Where did he go, I've studied for half a century.
I really love your service to the Lord.
Like you, I study verse by verse and chapter by chapter.
So if Elijah didn't die, where did he go?
We know that he did not go to Heaven,
for Jesus said that no man has ascended unto Heaven.
Well now, you gotta finish that verse
that you started there, Joseph.
And in John chapter three, verse 13,
no man hath ascended to Heaven
but he that came down.
In other words, those who were born in the flesh
is what that is talking about.
Elijah was born in the flesh.
He did not die normally, though, he was transfigured.
Matthew chapter 17, when Jesus took, I think it was
three of his disciples up to the Mount of Transfiguration.
When Jesus himself transfigured, who was there with him?
Elijah and Moses in transfigured bodies.
And you continue, I have come to the conclusion
that both Enoch and Elijah died,
however, I have never been able to understand
what actually occurred in Elijah's
fiery chariot disappearance.
Well, he was taken up in a whirlwind.
That word is the same word as you'll find
in Ezekiel chapter one, which was the vehicle
that brought God's throne to Earth.
Enoch and Elijah were very, very special
to our Heavenly Father.
Neither of them died in the flesh.
They were transfigured, God took them.
Rick in Illinois, somewhere in the New Testament...
This is lengthy, and I'm out of time.
Rick, I promise you'll be first up
when we come back in our next lecture.
I do want you all to know that I love you a great deal
because you enjoy studying God's word in depth.
And I want you to know as well that when
your Heavenly Father looks down and he sees you
with the letter he wrote to you spread out
and open before you and you're reading it,
searching for knowledge of him, it makes his day.
You make his day, he's gonna make your day.
Blessings always follow.
We are brought to you by your tithes and offerings.
If we've helped you, help us keep coming to you,
and to reach out to others who are lost
in this world of darkness.
One thing most important, though, and it's this.
You stay in his word every day.
Every day in your Father's word is a good day,
even with trouble, you know why?
It's because Jesus, Yeshua, he is the living word.
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