2 Samuel 20:1-26

Today’s passage shows competing trumpet calls.  The first one from Sheba, declares that he has no inheritance in God’s kingdom and shows him going his own way, one that leads to death.  At the end of the chapter, Joab’s trumpet demonstrates that the Lord has preserved his inheritance on the path that leads to life.  Today we, too, need to be preserved as the people chosen by Yahweh as his inheritance.  By weekly observation of the Sabbath in gathered worship, we acknowledge that Jesus is Lord and we are not, as we follow him until that final trumpet call when he gathers us to eternal life in his presence.