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April 04, 2024Ep. 95. 1 Kings 3-4, Psalm 89 | A Prayer for Wisdom
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So Solomon allied with Egypt through marriage. He would do this repeatedly, and it would be his downfall. The Bible says, "Solomon loved the Lord, but he sacrificed at the high places." Sadly his love for the Lord would slip to idolatry and he would forsake the Lord in his later days.
One of Solomon's most famous stories is the wisdom he demonstrates with the two prostitutes. This example is so famous that it is used regularly in culture across all sorts of mediums. I assure you that you will see a parody of Solomon's wisdom in the media sometime in the next few months. I always remember the example from Seinfeld, where Elain and Kramer seek the wisdom of Newman regarding a bicycle.
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April 03, 2024Ep. 94. 1 Kings 1-2, 2 Chronicles 1 | Death of David
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We tend to read the Bible as though each story follows the one immediately preceding it, as though the Bible is presenting things to us in a nice, orderly fashion. This is only sometimes the case. For example, David reigned for forty years, and his son Solomon reigned for forty years. The assumption is that when David died, Solomon began to reign. However, it becomes apparent that Solomon was anointed king before his father's death. Yet, David does not cease to be king. It is likely, then, that there is an overlap of the reigns between the two men. It makes perfect sense that Solomon's first year coincided with David's last year. As we read carefully through the Bible, we see that a king with leprosy may be confined to his quarters while still technically being king, though his son may be the public king. Remember, back in Genesis 25, when the author kills Abraham in the first few verses and then speaks of Isaac's children being born at the end of the chapter, though Abraham was alive to enjoy his twin grandsons until they were 15. Sometimes, the narrative jumps forward without actually giving us a proper timeline. We need to be careful readers.
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April 02, 2024Ep. 93. 2 Samuel 24, 1 Chronicles 21 | David's Census
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The difficulty with this text is obvious. Did God incite David to count the fighting men, or, as the parallel text states, was it Satan who incited David?
As I stated in the video, it is likely both. In the book of Job, God freed Satan to do to Job whatever he wished, short of bringing his life to an end. It was God who brought Job to Satan's attention.
In Matthew and Luke, the Spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted. Satan was the tempter.
In Luke 22 and Acts 2, we see that Christ was handed over to wicked men for their hour and power of darkness so that he would be crucified. Indeed, the crucifixion was the design and plan of God, but it was carried out by the wicked.
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April 01, 2024Ep. 92. 2 Samuel 21-22, Psalm 18 | David's Song
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I feel that chapter 21 of Samuel is out of order as it relates to the narrative. It isn't likely, though it isn't impossible, that the famine in the land over Saul's sin would happen in the last 20% of David's reign. During his reign, Saul sought to put the Gibeonites to death. These were the people Joshua and company had made a covenant with upon entering the Promised Land. These were the ones who had disguised themselves in worn-out clothing, with stale and moldy bread and cracked wineskins in a successful effort to deceive Joshua and avoid death. The three-year famine was brought to an end by delivering seven of Saul's descendants to death. The entire story is strange, and I'm not altogether sure what we should do with it.
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March 31, 2024Episodes 85-91 summary
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March 31, 2024Ep. 91. 2 Samuel 15-19 | Absalom's Rebellion
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There are several key players in today's video, and we should look briefly at each. First of all, Absalom, David's son, spends four* years seeking to undermine his father's authority in Jerusalem. At that time, he was able to gather enough people around him to stage a coup in Hebron. He immediately sleeps with his father's concubines in the presence of all the people of Jerusalem to prove that he has utterly rejected the authority of David. He also seeks to gather an army around himself to hunt down his father.
David, Israel's still and true king, flees with his faithful followers. He regroups and gathers his faithful men around him while preparing for battle. He asks only that the soldiers deal gently with Absalom. Even in his leaving, David maintains his integrity and refuses to do evil, even to Shimei, who curses David as he flees Jerusalem. David also asks that the ark of God remain in the tent in Jerusalem.
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March 30, 2024Ep. 90. 2 Samuel 13-14 | Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom
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You have to wonder if David's sons behave so poorly because of their father's behavior. David certainly didn't restrain his sons in their foolishness. We cannot add much to today's narrative except for a general sense of disappointment in David, Amnon, Absalom, and Joab.
I have always found it interesting that Amnon hates his sister Tamar with greater hatred after the rape than he claims to have loved her prior to the rape. This was not the love of God for Tamar but sinful lust.
That Absalom plotted his brother's demise for two years also shows us his character and gives us a little insight into his later attempt at taking the throne from his father.
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March 29, 2024Ep. 89. 2 Samuel 11-12, Psalm 51 | David and Bathsheba
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Of all the somewhat questionable things David may have done, the only one the Bible condemns him for is his actions concerning Bathsheba and her husband. When David saw a woman bathing on a rooftop nearby and inquired as to who she was, he was told she was the wife of Uriah the Hittite. That should have stopped the whole thing right there. Uriah was one of David's mighty men and had been with David at least since he became king in Jerusalem, but likely since he was king in Hebron and possibly even while he was fleeing from Saul. The point is that David knew Uriah well enough that it should have been offensive to him to even consider stealing his friend's wife.
But David knew Uriah was at war with the rest of the men and did not figure his sexual sin would ever be discovered. But then Bathsheba let David know she was pregnant. David worked hard to cover up his sin but, unable to do so, ultimately had Uriah murdered.
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March 28, 2024Ep. 88. 2 Samuel 7, 1 Chronicles 16-17 | God's Covenant with David
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In today's video, we see that David sought to establish a place for the Ark of the Covenant in Jerusalem. He placed it in a tent and appointed priests to minister before it. Not at all according to the guidelines God had given to Moses, but at this point, it seems like all the rules have just been trampled underfoot. The Tent of Meeting and the altar of sacrifice, along with the table of showbread and the incense are still in Gibeon and will remain there until the temple is built by Solomon, David's son. So again I'm left to take a deep breath, I'm a rule follower after all, and I thank God for his grace.
David appoints the men of Levi to minister before the Lord. Several of the names are important for us as we understand the rest of David's reign and also into Solomon's reign. Asaph is the most prominent and is responsible for 12 of the Psalms. Heman is significant in that he is the grandson of the impeccable Samuel. David, "Left Asaph and his brothers [in Jerusalem] before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister before the ark as each day required." (The Law of Moses did not require daily ministry before the ark.) David "Left Zadok the priest and his brothers before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon to offer burnt offerings on the altar, to do all that is written in the Law of the Lord that he commanded Israel." (except not ALL that was written in the Law because the ark was in Jerusalem) I really am bothered by this, but what is a guy to do?
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March 27, 2024Ep. 87. 2 Samuel 6, 1 Chronicles 13,15 | The Ark in Jerusalem
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The moving of the Ark to Jerusalem is such an interesting story. Though the Tent of Meeting has been at Gibeon for quite a while, the Ark of the Covenant has remained at Kiriath-Jearim since the Philistines had returned it, along with the golden tumors and mice. The Ark has not been in the holy of holies for at least twenty years. It makes me wonder how the priests were supposed to make atonement for the people in the holy of holies with the sprinkled blood on the Ark every year. Clearly, the priests were not doing their jobs. Clearly, there was no affection for the rules or regulations of the priests. In the seventh month of each year, the priests were to celebrate the Day of Atonement by walking into the holy of holies with the priestly garments and blood for the purification of all the people. We know that Saul was not a faithful God follower, but it seems even the priests at this time had neglected their duties; otherwise, wouldn't they have insisted the Ark be returned to the Tent of Meeting? But we are told in today's reading concerning the Ark, "For we did not seek it in the days of Saul."
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