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God bless you. Welcome to Shepherd's Chapel. Welcome to this Family
Bible Study Hour. Ready to get back
into our father's word
here at the chapel, we're gonna finish
up 1 Samuel today. We'll pick it up
today, 1 Samuel 30:23 after a bit of a recap. David made a very foolish
move and when his armies were going with Achish
and the Philistines to fight against Israel, David left the
women, the old men, and the women and the
children at Ziklag unprotected and while David was off with
Achish and the Philistines, which by the way, they wouldn't
allow, the other four kings of the Philistines
didn't trust David. They made Achish send
David home to Ziklag. When they got there,
they found the place had been ransacked, up in smoke, and their families, their
wives, their belongings gone. The Amalekites had taken them. David inquired of the Lord
and the Lord said pursue and you will recover all
and that's where we left off in our last lecture. They did pursue the Amalekites,
God gave them the victory over the Amalekites and as
we ended our last lecture, the men of Belial,
who were with David, the worthless and
lawless men said, well, those 200 that
couldn't make the trip against the Amalekites and
waded out the creek, Basore, they are not going to
share in the spoil. So much for the three
musketeers motto, all for one and one for all. They said, "You didn't go fight,
we're gonna keep the spoil. "You can take your wives and
your children but that's it." Well, David is going to
intercede and change that. Let's ask that word of wisdom
in Yeshua's precious name, father, we ask you to open
eyes, open ears this day. Let's go with 1 Samuel
30:23 and it reads, "Then said David,
Ye shall not do so," this is to the men of
Belial when they said, "We're keeping all the spoil,
those who didn't go fight "get none of the spoil." "My brethren, with that which
the Lord hath given us," David giving credit where credit
was due, crediting the Lord with their victory
over the Amalekites, "Who hath preserved us,
and delivered the company "that came against
us into our hand." It wasn't David and the
400 who were with him who defeated the Amalekites,
God gave them the victory. Verse 24, David continues
to the men of Belial, "For who will harken
unto you in this matter?" The wicked men of Belial,
"But as his part is "that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part "be that tarrieth by the
stuff: they shall part alike." Everyone receives an equal
portion of the spoils of war, which were considerable
as we're going to see. The stuff that tarrieth,
by the stuff, I think David learned his lesson concerning
not leaving the homefront at Ziklag with any protection
but taking all the men, that opening it up for
the Amelakites to come in and basically take everything,
lock, stock, and barrel. Verse 25, "And it was so
from that day forward, "that he made it a
statute and an ordinance "for Israel unto this day." Until the time of this writing
is what unto this day means. He made it a law and
a right in Israel, that it doesn't matter
if you go to war, that you're gonna divvy up
the spoils of war to everyone gets an equal part. David's not through divvying
up the spoils of war. Verse 26, "And when
David came to Ziklag, "he sent of the spoil
unto the elders of Judah, "even to his friends,
saying, 'Behold a present,'" in the Hebrew,
this is a blessing, "'For you of the spoil of
the enemies of the Lord.'" David is maturing as a leader,
I think God preparing David to take over as king of Israel
and treating the people well, his subjects well, is
what a good king does. Many of these people, and
we're gonna have a list of the places that David
sent some of the spoil from the Amalekites, and
remember, the Amalekites had just taken a great deal
of spoil from the Philistines, so we're talking about
a lot of livestock, probably some precious
metals and stones that David's divvying up. But we're gonna see
this list of places that David sent part
of the spoil to, are all south of Hebron, which means the extreme
southern part of Judah. Now, these peoples of Judah
had helped David and his men. Of course, they weren't
able to plant crops, they were continually
on the run. They were vagabonds,
if you will, as Saul pursued them
for several years. So, David had to
depend on others. I mean, and he had 600
men with their families? That's a lot of mouths to feed and David is, what he's going
to do here is repay those who helped him and his group when they were on
the run from Saul. Helping David would
be a considerable risk to their own heads. If Saul found out, he would
make heads roll, no doubt. Verse 27, "To them
which were in Bethel," now, this is Bethel of Simian,
not the better known Bethel of Benjamin, which is where
one of the golden calves was set up, one at
Bethel and one at Dan, when the first man-king
of the 10 northern tribes after the split of
the nation, Jereboam, when he became king, he
set up a golden calf in Dan and one in Bethel, so
you don't have to go down to Jerusalem to worship,
worship these golden calves. "And to them which were
in the south Ramoth, "and to them which
were in Jattir," Jattir, we learned
in Joshua 15:48 was the mountainous
region of South Judah. The list goes on. Verse 28, "And to them
which were in Aroer, "and to them which
were in Siphomoth, "and to them which were in
Esthemoa," all of these places had been supporting David and
now he is returning the favor, building good will among
the people towards the king. And remember, it will
be the people of Judah who make David their king first. He's the king over
Judah for seven years before he becomes king over
the 10 northern tribes, meaning all 12 tribes of Israel. Verse 29, "And to them
which were in Rachal, "and to them which
were in the cities "of the Jerahmeelites, and to
them which were in the cities "of the Kenites," and you may
recall in a previous chapter when David first
moved to Ziklag, he was attacking the friends
and allies of the Philistines and he was bringing
the spoil bag to Ziklag and Achish noticed it and
said, "Where have you been "that you gathered
all these spoils?" And David told him, "Well, we
went among the Jerahmeelites," which were the Southern
Judah, and the Kenites, and spoiled them and of
course, David was telling a lie to Achish so as to keep favor and to build trust with Achish. Verse 30, "And to them
which were in Hormah, "and to them which
were in Chor-ashan, "and to them which
were in Athach," all cities of Southern Judah. Verse 31 to complete, "And to
them which were in Hebron," and Hebron would
be David's capital when he first became
king of Judah only, "and to all the places
where David himself "and his men were wont to hunt." This means that where
they were free to travel while they were on
the run from Saul. Now, that was quite a
chapter, the chapter 30. Remember how low we found David at the beginning
of this chapter? That Ziklag had been burned,
all the men that were with him had lost everything, their
families, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all their goods had been
taken by the Amalekites. In fact, his own men were
talking of stoning David because of the poor
decision-making that he had made in leaving Ziklag
with no protection and also deciding to
go with the Philistines under the pretense that
they were going to fight with the Philistines
against Israel. But then at the
end of the chapter, we see David and what
happened, what changed the bad luck that
David was having? He inquired of the Lord. He sent for Abiathar,
the high priest and he inquired of the
Lord and the Lord said, "Pursue and recover all." And at the end of the chapter, completely at the other
end of the spectrum, we see David distributing
goods and spoils of war from the victory
over the Amalekites. So, quite a change,
David on the way up as far as the way
the people of Judah and eventually all of
Israel viewed David. Wanting to stone
him to thanking him for sharing the spoils of war. Chapter 31, the final
chapter of 1 Samuel, we come to the death of Saul. You remember when Saul
inquired of or sought the familiar spirit,
the witch of Endor, to bring up the
spirit of Samuel? Because the Lord was
not answering Saul. You remember what the
witch of Endor told? Or the evil spirit,
better said, told Saul? Said, "You and your sons
and a great number of Israel "will die tomorrow in battle
with the Philistines." That's about to come to pass. Chapter 31:1, "Now
the Philistines
fought against Israel: "and the men of Israel fled
from before the Philistines, "and fell down slain
in mount Gilboa." In chapter 28:4, we
learned that that is where the Philistines had pitched
to make war against Israel. God is not with
Israel at this time. If God be for us, who
can be against us. If God is against
us, who can help us? Verse two, "And the Philistines
followed hard upon Saul "and upon his sons; and the
Philistines slew Jonathan, "and Abinadab," Abinadab is
called Eshui in chapter 14:49 of this book, "and
Malchi-shua, Saul's sons," three of Saul's sons
killed by the Philistines. I think there's very
little doubt that Saul probably witnessed his sons
being killed by the Philistines. No doubt they were fighting
shoulder to shoulder with their father. Jonathan, one of David's
best friends, he loved David and David loved him as
they loved themself. You can't love anything
more, anyone more. Verse three, "And the battle
went sore against Saul, "and the archers," the
Philistine archers, "hit him; "and he was sore
wounded of the archers." One of the arrows of
the Philistine archers found Saul and wounded him. It was probably a fatal
wound but at worst, it was a very hard wound,
difficult to recover. Verse four, "Then said
Saul unto his armourbearer, "'Draw thy sword, and
thrust me through therewith; "'lest these uncircumcised,'"
the uncircumcised Philistines, "'come and thrust me
through and abuse me.' "But his armourbearer would
not; for he was sore afraid." And he was answerable,
the armourbearer was answerable for Saul's life, "Therefore Saul took a
sword and fell upon it." Saul committed suicide. He probably was
going to die anyway but he did not want
the Philistines to, this word abuse him is to
mock him or insult him. We will see that they will
abuse his corpse even at that. He didn't accomplish
his objective. Verse five, "And when his
armourbearer saw that Saul "was dead, he fell
likewise upon his sword, "and died with him." Now, that's a
loyal armourbearer, doing as his master had
done, taking his own life so as not to be taken alive
by the Philistines and abused. Verse six, "So Saul
died and his three sons, "and his armourbearer,
and all his men, "that same day together." The first man-king is
dead and we learned in 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 how
God viewed the death of Saul. It was because he
disobeyed the word of God, he rejected the word of
God by not killing all of the Amalekites when
God put a ban on them and also, as it states
there in 1 Chronicles 10, he sought out a familiar spirit. That's the reason that
God rejected Saul. In Chronicles, it states
that all of Saul's house died in this battle,
which is true of those who were present at this battle. There were members of
Saul's house that survived because they weren't there. Ishbashef, one of Saul's
sons who will lay claim to the kingship of the 10
northern tribes of Israel after Saul's death for
a brief period of time. Also, there was a grandson,
the son of Jonathan, Mafibashef, also survived. So, not all of Saul's house
was killed in this battle but those present
certainly were. Abner, who is the
general for Saul, obviously was present
at this battle but he survived and wasn't
killed but technically, he would not be called
part of Saul's house. He was a first cousin to Saul but not an immediate
family member, a son or a grandson
in other words. Verse seven, "And
when the men of Israel "that were on the other
side of the valley, "and they that were on
the other side Jordan," now this is a little
confusing here, this almost sounds like
we're talking about those people who were on
the east side of Jordan. What this means is those who
were where the battle was, the Gilboa, over to
the River Jordan, "saw that the men
of Israel fled, "and that Saul and
his sons were dead, "they forsook the
cities and fled "and the Philistines
came and dwelt in them." I couldn't help but
think about when Israel first moved in to
the land of Canaan, they didn't have
to build houses, they didn't have to dig
wells or plant vineyards or make a watchtower
or a wine press. All that had been done for them. Here, they're giving up their
houses, their wine presses, their vineyards because
Israel is defeated. It's probably a good thing
that they are leaving because God is not with
Israel at this point. Verse eight, "And it came
to pass on the morrow, "when the Philistines
came to strip the slain, "that they found Saul
and his three sons "fallen in mount Gilboa." And this was common
practice, that after the war, the battles were over, you
returned to take the spoils of war, weapons, jewelry, in
the case of Saul, no doubt, there was a crown and
that's what they were doing. They're gonna find,
though, that someone else had already come to Saul's
corpse before they got there. We'll learn that in 2 Samuel 1. Verse nine, "And they
cut off his head," referring to Saul's head,
"and stripped off his armor, "and sent into the land of
the Philistines round about, "to publish it in the
house of their idols, "and among the people." In other words, they were
sent on a circuit or a tour of the land of the
Philistines as trophies. Saul had given, in
his younger years, the Philistines fits. Saul killed his thousands, David killed his
tens of thousands. Saul was well-known in the
land of the Philistines. He was no doubt hated very much because of the successes
he had in fighting and delivering Israel from
the hand of the Philistines. Saul was very concerned
about falling into the hand of the Philistines while
he was still alive, that they would abuse him. They abused his
corpse nonetheless. Verse 10, "And
they put his armour "in the house of Ashtaroth:" this is a form of
the word Ishtar, from whence comes the
translation Easter, "and they fastened his body
to the wall of Beth-shan." Beth-shan had remained
Canaanitish, the
people of Israel failed to cleanse the land at
Beth-shan of the Canaanites. They were there for friendly
with the Philistines. In 1 Chronicles, we learned
that they also fastened Saul's skull to the
temple of Dagon, that being the fish
god of the Philistines. The god had a fish body but a
man's head and a man's arms. Verse 11, "And when the
inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead "heard that which the
Philistines had done to Saul," now, they're not
gonna stand for this. You see, the people of
Jabesh-gilead, you may remember in chapter 11, the
Ammonites came up against the people of Jabesh-gilead. Nahash, which means
snake or serpent, was their king and the
people of Jabesh-gilead came out to Nahash and said, "You know, let us make
a league, a covenant, "and we'll serve you." Remember, Nahash said,
"Well, on this condition "will I make a league with
you, that you come over here "and let me pluck out the
right eye of every one of you "and then you can serve me." Well, they weren't too
pleased with his response so they asked for seven
days to think about it and to see if anyone from
Israel would save them. Saul is the one who
came to save them. Verse 12, "All the
valiant men arose," there weren't a lot
of valiant men there when Nahash was proposing
that he pluck out the right eye of all of
them, "and went all night," now this did require not
to belittle what they did. They did this at great
risk to themselves. They're going in
behind enemy lines to recover the bodies
of Saul and his sons. "And took the body of Saul
and the bodies of his sons," all three of them, "from
the wall of Beth-shan, "and came to Jabesh,
and burnt them there." The first record of
cremation in God's word. Now, cremation was not
uncommon among the Israels. More predominantly, the people
of Israel buried the corpse of the dead but cremation
was not unknown. In fact, cremation, if someone
were convicted of a crime, the punishment might be
that they be stoned to death and then as a further
insult to the convict, their bodies would be
burned or cremated. We often get the question,
here at the chapel, is it alright to
cremate the remains? And we learn the answer
in Ecclesiastes 12:6-7, which states that "Er
the silver cord part," which the Hebrew figure of
speech meaning when we die, the earth or the flesh
returns to the earth and the spirit returns to
God from which it came. How the flesh returns to
the earth doesn't matter. Ashes to ashes, dust to
dust, earth to earth. We never, ever need our flesh
bodies again, praise God. Bodies that become sick,
bodies that grow old, we have something much
better in our spirit bodies. Verse 13, "And they took
their bones, and buried them," their ashes or what was
left, in other words, "and buried them under
a tree at Jabesh, "and fasted seven days." Mourning their deliverer,
Saul did deliver the men of Jabesh-gilead,
people of Jabesh-gilead from Nahash, the king of Amon. Their deliverer is dead but God
is in the preparation stages of a new deliverer, that
being King David, of course. In 2 Samuel 21:12, we
learn that when David has the opportunity, he
goes to this tree of Jabesh and has Saul and his
three sons exumed and took them to Saul's home
and buried them at Zelah, that's recorded
in 2 Samuel 21:12. Now, the second book of
Samuel, and actually, it's kind of incorrect to
call it the books of Samuel, first and second. In the original
manuscripts, it is one book and it is when they
translated the Bible, the Old Testament
from Hebrew to Greek that it took more space
to write the Greek, so back then, they wrote
the Bible on scrolls, so what did they do when they
got to the end of one scroll? Well, they weren't finished, so they had to start
a second scroll and that's what we have. If you have a King
James Version Bible, the title likely, the
second book of Samuel, otherwise called the
second book of the kings. And in the Subtuagant, which
is the Greek translation of the Old Testament,
it's simply called the second book of Kings. And you might ask, well then, what do they call
first and second Kings? They call it third and
fourth Kings, respectively. But this book deals with
the history of David's reign of Israel, first over
Judah only for seven years then for the 12 tribes
of Israel for 33 years. Chapter 1:1 and it reads,
"Now it came to pass "after the death of Saul,
when David was returned "from the slaughter
of the Amalekites, "and David had abode
two days in Ziklag;" took their families
and went back and no doubt rested
for a few days. The Lord was obviously with
David at this time in his life but note that David is not
rushing to claim the throne of Israel after he
learns of Saul's death. In fact, it is
this first chapter, it is where he learns
of Saul's death. Verse two, "It came even
to pass on the third day, "that, behold, a man came
out of the camp from Saul," in other words, from
the army of Saul, "with his clothes rent,
and earth upon his head:" all both signs of
mourning, "and so it was "when he came to David,
that he fell to the earth, "and did obeisance." He knew David was
a powerful man. Now, he's given the
outward appearance that he is mourning. I think this is an act. We're gonna learn that
this man was an Amalekite, which should raise suspicions
and will raise suspicions on David's part
because the Amalekites were enemies of
David and Israel. Verse three, "And
David said unto him, "'From whence comest thou?' "And he said unto him, "'Out of the camp of
Israel am I escaped.'" I was with them
when the Philistines thumped Israel's gourde. "And David said unto him,
"How went the matter?" Tell me the details. "'I pray thee, tell me.'" "And he answered,
'That the people,'" the armies of Israel,
"'are fled from the battle, "'and many of the people
also are fallen and dead,'" it was a resounding defeat, "'and Saul and Jonathan
his son are dead also.'" Now, the Amalekite
probably thinks that this will be
good news to David, that this news would
make David rejoice, knowing that Saul had
been trying for years to pursue David
and to kill David. Verse five, "And David
said unto the young man "that told him, 'How knowest
thou that Saul and Jonathan "'his son be dead?'" Did you witness this firsthand or is this through the grapevine that you learned
of these deaths? "And the young man
that told him said, "'As I happened by chance
upon mount Gilboa,'" where Saul died, "'behold,
Saul leaned upon his spear; "'and, lo, the chariots,'"
these are the Philistines, "'and the horsemen,'"
the calvary, '"followed hard after him.'" Now, this young man is lying and it's not going to
take David long to see the young man's story unravel. You see, this is not logical, that Saul would be
leaning on his spear. Where's Abner, his general? Where are Saul's three sons? Where is Saul's armourbearer when all this is
supposedly going on with this young Amalekite? "And when he looked
behind him, he saw me." When Saul looked
around, he saw me. "And called unto me, and
I answered, Here am I." He's hoping that this story
will increase the recompense from David for bringing
this good news to David. The recompense he's going
to receive from David is not what the
Amalekite expects at all. Verse eight, "And he said
unto me, 'Who art thou?' "And I answered him,
'I am an Amalekite.'" This is a bit ironic
'cause in 1 Samuel 15:3, God's instructions to Saul
were to completely annihilate the Amalekites,
he failed to do so and according to this Amalekite, he's now going to ask the
Amalekite to take his life. Verse nine, "He said unto
me again," Saul said to me, "Stand, I pray thee,
upon me, and slay me: "for anguish is come upon me, "because my life is
yet whole in me." Another fabrication, it
did not happen this way. We just read how it
came down to pass in chapter 31 of 1 Samuel. This Amalekite was not there. Again, it's not going
to take David long to see the story of
this Amalekite unravel and the Amalekite's not going
to appreciate the recompense that David has in mind for him. Don't miss the next lecture. We've got a short message, we'll ask you to listen a
moment, won't you please? - [Narrator] The
book of Deuteronomy. The law was given
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book of Deuteronomy. Probably the most exciting thing that Deuteronomy
has to offer for you is that great song of Moses, that those that overcome
the false Messiah in the end generation
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in these flesh bodies. Again, an education in
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through the old schoolmaster, that great book,
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the mind of folks. First up, we have
is Joanne in Texas. "Was Jesus a Jew "and how can I tell a
friend of mine this answer? "I have started with
the genealogy of
Jesus' mother, Mary, "but want to get it
right and need some help. "Thank you so much. "May the Lord continue to
bless you in his work." And he certainly does and
thank you for that wish. Jesus was a resident of Judah. He was of the tribe of Judah,
he was a resident of Judea, which is translated from the
Greek word, Eudas, the word Jew is translated from
the Greek word, Eudas, which means in the
Greek language means
a resident of Judea or a member of the
tribe of Judah. Jesus was of the tribe of Judah, he was a resident of Judeah
at some points in time and he was also of
the tribe of Levi, so if you're studying the
genealogy of Mary in Luke 3, you can take that all the
way back through David, all the way back to
Adam, that's Ephadom, who was created in Genesis 2. That tells us that he was
Adamic, he was ruddy complected. Know the key of David, know who
the descendants of David are and who those are who claim
to be of Judah, Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, which are the church
of Smyrna and Philadelphia, whom Christ found no fault with. But that key of David
allows you to understand who the Kenites are who claim
to be our brother, Judah, but do lie and are of
the synagogue of Satan. My words? No, that's God's word,
Revelation 2:9, Revelation 3:9. Sherry from Kentucky, "Did
David have to face Uriah? I'm not sure this is his name. Uriah the Hittite I
think is who you mean. "When David's soul went
back and did God judge David "concerning him killing
Uriah or having Uriah killed? "I was just wondering. "Also, where in the
Bible would that be? "I've learned so much from you, "love your teachings
and God bless." Well, I'm glad you enjoy
studying God's word and God bless you as well. Well, it won't be long until we're covering 2 Samuel
12 in verses 9 through 13, God judged David. Was God happy with David? Absolutely not, he
considered what David did to Uriah the Hittite as if
David had held the sword of the Ammonites
in his own hand. In other words, he
looked that David killed or murdered Uriah the Hittite and his motive was even worse, to steal Uriah's
wife, Bathsheba. Now, God judged David
there in 2 Samuel 12 and verse 13, God
put away David's sin and said, "You won't die," and does God have
the power to forgive? Boy, I sure hope so 'cause I
don't know about you, Sherry, but I need forgiveness
every once in a while and if you're honest, you
need forgiveness as well. So, God has the power to
forgive, God forgave David while he was still in the flesh for the murder of Uriah. He paid a price for it and so did some of those
close to him, his family. Catherine in Oklahoma, "Genesis 6:6, did the
Geber have souls?" Yes, anytime that
an embryo is formed, God puts a soul spirit
into that embryo. You follow with the second, "If not, are these the
disembodied spirits "throughout history
or even still today?" No, they're not
disembodied spirits, they were in the flesh and
God was not happy with that. He destroyed them with
the flood of Noah. He then destroyed
them the second influx with the sword of Israel,
David's included and Goliath, and then there's gonna
be a third influx that you need to be aware
of, when Satan and his angels are booted out of
heaven, Revelation 12:6 and the following verses. That's the reason
that Paul would warn that women should have a
covering over their head. Christ should be that
covering over their head because of the angels,
they're coming back. Sherry in Kentucky, you
get two questions in today. "I'm a new student
and was wondering "what the word
lamentations means. "I know it's a book in the
Bible but what does it mean "and who wrote this book? "Was it written by Paul?" No, Paul wrote most
of the New Testament, Lamentations, you'll find
in the Old Testament. The title to the book is the
Lamentations of Jeremiah, so there is the explanation
of who wrote the book. The word lamentations
in the Hebrew is kenah, and it means a dirge, D-I-R-G-E,
which is a funeral song, a song commonly associated with
a funeral march if you will. In other words, a lamentation,
you can think of it as a sad, sad song and it
was a sad, sad situation when Jeremiah, as
the king of Babylon, was coming to take everyone
or most every one in Judah captive to Babylon,
sad, sad song. Jenny in California, "If
woman wasn't in the first age "and are now in the second age, "can a woman be an
elect in this age?" Absolutely and it's hard
for people to understand that there was no flesh
in the first earth age but the spirits,
the children of God, some of them stood with
God in a very special way when Satan rebelled at the
Catabol, in the Greek language, the foundations of the world,
that's how it's translated. But in Acts 2:17, also
Joel 2:28, a second witness that God will pour out
his spirit and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy. That's when the holy spirit
will speak through the elect, both sons and daughters
being the point. Bill and Leanna in Tennessee, "Can you give us a second
witness to Isaiah 3:4?" And then you have in quotes,
"I will give children "to be your princes and
babes shall rule over them." Yeah, I think Ecclesiastes
10:16 will serve as a second witness to that and that scripture states,
"Whoa to thee, oh land, "when thy king is a child,"
or behaves as a child, immature in other words. Patty in Georgia,
"My question is this: "is there gender in heaven? "When I die, will
I still be female? "Thanks in advance
for your answer." Matthew 22:24 and
the following verses. The scribes and Pharisees
were trying to trip Jesus up with a hypothetical question. They said this woman
was married to a man and before he raised up
seed to her, in other words, before they had
children, he died. So as the law requires,
she married his brother and this happened seven times,
there were seven brothers and still, there was
no seed raised up to carry on the name and
the hypothetical question to Jesus was, "Well
then, in the resurrection "or when she dies,
which of the seven "will she be married to?" And Jesus said to them, "You
do err in your understanding "of the scriptures
and the power of God." In verse 30, it says,
"For they neither marry "or are given in marriage but
are as the angels of heaven." In other words,
there's no distinction between male and female
among the angels of heaven. And I know this has probably
upset a bunch of you hairy-legged boys but
spiritually, think about it, who will we be in
spiritual bodies? We'll be the bride
of Jesus Christ and I know that goes all
over you, some of you but think about it. In a spiritual sense, we will
all be the bride of Christ. We should be proud and
honored to be that bride. Sherry from Kentucky, you're
gonna get three questions in today, boy, you
hit the jackpot. "I hear a lot about
globalization and
the New World Order "in the news, what I
was wondering is will
a one world money "come into effect
before anti-Christ
appears in Jerusalem?" We have signs of that
happening such as the Euro being the currency throughout
the European nations or those who are members
of the European Union but I don't think it will
be a worldwide currency until anti-Christ appears. He's gonna heal
that deadly wound and come in peacefully
and prosperously. Charles from Idaho,
"My name is Charles. "My wife, Shirley,
has had five strokes. "She has been using
God's name in vain. "Will she go to
heaven when she dies? "She has been saved." Well, if Jesus is her
savior, she will go to heaven when she passes away. God knows her heart
and God knows her mind and Charles, I want you to know, we're gonna have
Shirley in prayer. She's been through a
lot with five strokes. You have been through a lot,
it's a very stressful situation to have old age and
illness come upon you or one that you
love, which I'm sure you love your wife,
Shirley, but you both will be in our prayers. Frank from Maine, "I
would like to know "if Sunday is the true Sabbath. "It says not to
work on that day. "Sometimes I work
seven days a week. "My wife passed away,"
and you give a date, "after 46-plus years. "Please help me to know
if Sunday is the sabbath. "I have been watching your
show daily after work. "I'm on social
security plus I work. "I love God and your program." Alright, Frank, well
we're sorry for your loss and we know that's a very
traumatic experience, losing your spouse
from that many years. Sabbath, if you take it back to the original
languages, means rest. We learn in Hebrews 4
that Jesus is our rest and I'll submit to you that
if you don't put your rest in Jesus, you have no rest. In 1 Corinthians 5:6-7,
we learn that Christ became our passover and
there is no higher sabbath than passover, it's
the highest sabbath and that sabbath is Jesus. Put your rest in him every day. Don't be a one day
a week Christian, be an everyday Christian. Butch in South Carolina, "I
found the real word of God "when I listen to you
and your father, Arnold, "when I was 69 years old. "Thank you for the truth. "May God bless you,
your family, the staff, "and volunteers," and thank
you for remembering all. "The people who answer the
phones are very knowledgeable and cordial," I'll pass
that along to them as well. "In John 3:3, has the word
again, you said in the Greek, "the word is above, when
I look in the Strong's, "again is in the appendix
and it is not translated. "I got the Strong's
from your library." Well, you should have also
gotten a appendix numbers for the large print
Strong's Concordance. In fact, Butch, I'm gonna ask
you to open the front cover of the book and make sure that you don't find
that list there. If it is there, you'll
find that word again means from above. Now, if you did not get
that with the Strong's, I'm gonna ask you, the next
time you're writing in to us or you can just
write a letter to us stating that you did not
get the appendix numbers for the large print Strong's
Concordance that you ordered and you request that
and we'll be happy to send it along to you. Those were translated in
Dr. Strong's original work but over the years,
we've been fighting to keep the original
work of Dr. Strong alive. It seems like scholars
think that they know more than Dr. Strong and
they start changing Dr. Strong's original works, some of it very critical changes and we have even stopped
using or purchasing Strong's Concordance
from some publishers because they are allowing
their supposed scholars to change Dr. Strong's work. We won't tolerate it. We just won't buy
their products anymore. Darlene from Louisiana,
"Something has been on my mind "and I pray you can help me." Well, I hope so, too. "Can you explain to me the
purpose of the Lord's supper "and how often should
it be commemorated? "I enjoy your show
because from it, "I have come to understand
more of the Bible "since I started
watching your program." Well, we're glad that
you're growing closer to the word of God
through our program. 1 Corinthians 11:24,
Jesus said, "Do this," referring to the partaking
of the bread and the wine, as the bread is his body,
the wine is his blood, and he said, "Do this
in remembrance of me." And there's no special
number of times that you should take communion. Some churches take
communion every week and if that's what
they wanna do, I certainly won't
judge them for that. Here at Shepherd's Chapel, we like to keep it
from becoming a ritual, a dogma if you will,
and so we only partake of the Lord's supper, communion, on two or three occasions
a year, not weekly but you can take it at home
as often as you feel the need. There's nothing wrong
with doing it more often if that's what you wish to do. "Do this in remembrance of me." Remember what he did
on the cross for us and that he resurrected. Mary from Maryland, "What
happens to archangel Michael "when he lets loose Satan? "Does Satan kill him? "Does he stay in heaven? "Does he come to
Earth with Christ? He will stay in heaven and I
think it's a pretty safe bet that he will be in the
army of Jesus Christ, who returns in Revelation 19. You follow, "Was your father
a modern day prophet?" I believe he was. Pastor Arnold Murray never
claimed to be a prophet. In fact, as he would
come down pretty hard on someone who
called him a prophet. He taught that there are
no modern day prophets. The prophets that
speak to us today are found in God's
word: Jeremiah, Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, the
list goes on and on. Annelle from Texas, "When
Lot became a widower, "his two daughters lay with
him after getting him drunk "for the purpose of giving him
sons to carry on his lineage. "Did these two sons form
any of the small nations "in that area and if so,
what are the names of them "or did they form
a tribe by name?" The Moabites and the Ammonites,
the descendants of Moab, one of the sons of Lot
by his own daughter, and Ammon, a son by
the other daughter that got him drunk and
kept his seed alive. Ruth, who was a Moabitess,
was the great grandmother of King David, so they
were both, Ammon and Moab became nations that lie east
and southeast of Israel. In fact, it is during
the time of David, they were both defeated,
giving Israel an access to the Gulf of Akabuh, which
is where the ships of Tarses sailed from that went to Ophir during the time of
Solomon's reign. I'm out of time, I want you
all to know that I love you a great deal, why? Because you enjoy studying
God's word in depth. It makes his day,
the father's day, when he looks down and he
sees you reading the letter that he wrote to you, the Bible. When you make his day,
he's gonna make your day, the blessings always
start to 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. The word is so chock full
of love and understanding if you take time
to understand it. Most important, this, that
you stay in his word everyday. Everyday in father's
word is a good day, even with trouble, you know why? Because Jesus is
the living word. (uplifting organ music) - [Narrator] Hearing God's
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