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1 Samuel 3:10-14


- Imagine the situation: Yah.weh speaks directly with Samuel who is just a boy!

- We can imagine that he will remember this event during his whole life!

- Something impossible to forget!

- And he tells him personally about his judgment on the house of Eli that is Eli and his sons!

- And he can see how Eli’s sons behave!

- And he can see that Eli doesn’t do anything!

- And he can see that Yah.weh is patient!

- But when the appropriate time comes, he acts!

- And there is no way to escape!

- Does it remind you of Israel?

- Do you really understand what it means for human society?

- And here we can see that Yah.weh says that Eli’s sons ARE CURSING Yah.weh!

- AND WHEN YOU CURSE YAH.WEH YOU CAN’T ESCAPE!

- ONE WORD TO SUMMARIZE THE BIBLE: PRECISION!

- WE CAN THINK OF THE BIBLE AS A PUZZLE WHEN EACH PIECE HAS ITS EXACT PLACE!

- ALL THE DETAILS ARE IMPORTANT OR NECESSARY!

- BUT MEN DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS!

- THEY DON’T CARE!

- BUT THEY SHOULD!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

 

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1 Samuel 3:15

- That’s definitely interesting!

- Samuel perfectly understands Yah.weh’s message!

- He knows it is a condemnation against Eli and his sons!

- But above all against Eli!

- And Eli is like a father to Samuel!

- And he is the one who teaches him about Yah.weh’s service!

- Imagine the situation:Eli is the high priest of Yah.weh, his two sons are also priests of Yah.weh!

- And Yah.weh has condemned them!

- They are going to die!

- There is no possible discussion!

- Yah.weh has given them time to change things!

- But they keep cursing Yah.weh by their actions!

- And Samuel will become the high priest!

- And he will keep serving Yah.weh till his death!

- And his sons will choose corruption!

- And the Hebrews chose total corruption!

- And mankind chose total corruption!

- Human corruption is everywhere!

- There is no exception!

- And we can see it every day of our lives and at all levels!

 

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1 Samuel 3: 16,17

- Once again it is really interesting!

- Yah.weh hasn’t spoken to anyone in Israel for a long time!

- And now he speaks to a child!

- Eli knows what Samuel is going to tell him!

- Because he knows he is wrong!

- Do you remember Job: he knew he was right!

- Do you understand the similitude?

- So he warns Samuel!

- He wants to know each word!

- Because each word is important!

- Do you see the difference between Yah.weh’s word and man’s tradition?

- Do you understand why they oppose?

- Do you understand that if you follow one you reject the other?

- You can’t serve two masters!

- You must choose one!

- The Hebrews chose the wrong one!

- Mankind has always chosen the wrong one!

- They all have been condemned and keep being condemned!

- DEATH!

- ONLY INDIVIDUALS CAN MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE AND STRIVE FOR LIFE!

 

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1 Samuel 3:18

- So Samuel tells him everything without hiding anything from him.

- Thus Eli knows definitely each word from Yah.weh’s message!

- He knows it is too late to change the situation!

- He knows he is going to die!

- And he knows his sons are going to die!

- He knows he is too weak!

- And he knows he is going to pay the price!

- He has no excuse!

- May we listen to this message from Yah.weh!

- Think about that: corruption at the highest religious level!

- It is nothing new!

- Corruption is a human speciality!

- Political and religious and commercial powers have always worked together except when they get mad at each other!

- Corruption has had so much time to spread in every aspect of human society like cancer!

- It is a pandemic that keeps spreading everywhere!

- Only Yah.weh’s kingdom will get rid of it but in two phases!

- In the new future when Yah.weh will put an end to this human society and after the 1,000 years!

- Then human corruption will be eradicated and won’t be tolerated anymore!

 

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1 Samuel 3: 19-21


- Eli’s house is going down!

- Samuel is going up!

- The differences are too big!

- Yah.weh has made his choice and no one else!

- Remember that Yah.weh has made his choice and no one else!

- And the religious leaders are not the ones who decide!

- Yah.weh’s word vs man’s tradition!

- On the one hand, it is too powerful, on the other hand it is too weak!

- But people like man’s tradition!

- But it won’t help!

- No chance!

- Remember the story of the Israelites, they had everything, they lost everything!

- Then it’s written, nothing can be changed!

- Think of that: Yah.weh waited for a successor to Eli before getting rid of him!

- And what a successor!

- In the next promised land, Yah.weh will look for able people who are ready to serve him faithfully!

- And he will only look for such people!

- Thus it is better to prepare now!

 

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1 Samuel 4:1-11

- The Israelites are beaten twice by the Philistines!

- But they don’t know why!

- 30,000 soldiers are killed!

- And the Philistines capture the Ark of Yah.weh!

- And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas die!

- As a matter of fact, something is wrong!

- Because the Israelites lose twice, the Ark is captured and the two sons of Eli die!

- And bringing the Ark hasn’t changed anything!

- And who died? The two sons of Eli!

- And the price is high because many Israelites lose their lives!

- Is that Yah.weh’s people?

- Are you serious?

- Come on!

- And history keeps repeating with Israel!

- And history keeps repeating with mankind!

- Are you serious?

- Come on!

- Open your eyes!

- Open your ears!

 

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1 Samuel 4:12-18

- Eli is 98!

- He is told about the defeat of Israel!

- He is also told about the death of his sons!

- And that the Ark of Yah.weh has been captured!

- Then he falls backward and breaks his neck and dies!

- After the two sons of Eli, Eli dies too!

- Think about the fact that he has been judging Israel for 40 years!

- And what happened at the end: he let his two sons behave badly in front of Yah.weh!

- He didn't do anything against them!

- He was too weak!

- That’s why we must be careful not to take the wrong way!

- Pride doesn’t help!

- It only brings disappointment!

- And when it’s too late, it’s too late!

- We can cry as much as we want!

- But if we don’t act when it is time, then forget it!

- Yah.weh warned Israel repeatedly and they never listened!

- They paid the price!

- End of the story!

- Mankind follows the same way!

- It will have the same end!

- We, as individuals, can decide to follow the right way and obey Yah.weh!

- It depends on each one of us to be saved

 

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1 Samuel 5

- The philistines capture the Ark of Yah.weh!

- They take it with them into the house of Dagon!

- But every morning they find their god facedown!

- Then they move the Ark into other cities but each time they get into trouble!

- So they decide to give it back to the Israelites.

- So in time, as usual, the Israelites are struck by Yah.weh because they don’t behave properly!

- But then it’s up to the Philistines!

- Nobody can go against Yah.weh!

- For a certain time, he may wait, and sometimes it takes a lot of time according to human time but according to Yah.weh’s time it’s nothing!

- It is always more difficult for us to wait because we don’t live long!

- And it is easier for men to look with man’s eyes rather than with Yah.weh’s eyes!

- But thus we are always going to be wrong!

- The Israelites did, time passed and then they were destroyed!

- Do you think it is going to be better when Yah.weh strikes human society in the near future?

- Remember the Israelites!

- Remember their false prophets!

- They were destroyed and their religious leaders and false prophets couldn’t do anything!

- And history will repeat again and again!

- Everything is written in the Bible!

- It’s up to us to read it and take it into account!

- Everyone must change completely!

- Being lukewarm has never worked and will never work!

- It is a choice between life and death!

- And it’s a choice everyone must make personally!

- We will be the only ones responsible!

 

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1 Samuel 6

- So the Philistines get into trouble because they take Yah.weh’s Ark in their cities!

- Interestingly they ask their priests and diviners how they must return it!

- And they do exactly how they tell them!

- Now the Israelites rejoice when they see the Ark back!

- But they shouldn’t have looked at it!

- So Yah.weh strikes them and many men die!

- Once again, we see the difference between man’s tradition and Yah.weh’s word!

- Men usually do as they please!

- But with Yah.weh it doesn’t work!

- What do you think will happen when he cleanses human society to establish his kingdom?

- We have a lot of work to do to prepare for getting into the next promised land!

- There is a big difference between Yah.weh’s standards and men’s standards!

- We must understand it as fast as possible!

- It is necessary to wake up!

- Otherwise it will be really painful!

- If men think they can play with Yah.weh, he will strike them as he already stroke the Hebrews and mankind!

- And this time there will be no possible comparison!

 

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1 Samuel 7

- After 20 years the Ark comes to the city of Kiriath-jearim and the house of Israel begins to seek after Yah.weh!

- And the Israelites take away all the foreign gods they have!

- Then Samuel prays for the Israelites!

- And he begins serving as judge over the Israelites!

- There is a war between the Philistines and the Israelites asking for help from Yah.weh!

- So Samuel makes an offering and asks Yah.weh for help and Yah.weh answers him!

- And he sends thunder against the Philistines and he throws them into confusion and Israel defeats them!

- And the Israelites pursue them and kill many!

- And Israel recovers its cities and the territory taken by the Philistines!

- And Samuel keeps judging Israel, traveling once a year through the country to do his job and returning to his house in Ramah where he also judges Israel.

- So most of the time Israel opposes Yah.weh and when they are in a bad situation they call for him!

- That’s a strange way to be a special people!

- They have been struck so many times!

- Fortunately, Samuel is their judge and he follows Yah.weh and he has a good relationship with him!

- And Yah.weh listens to him!

- Thus all the time it is a relationship between Yah.weh and one of his faithful servants!

- Without such a relationship between YAH.WEH and ONE MAN, they would have been rejected all at once!

- For one man, Samuel, Yah.weh saved Israel!

- And it is not the only case!

- Once again, it shows that if we don’t do the job, the others won’t do it for us!

 

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1 Samuel 8

When Samuel is old, he appoints his sons as judges for Israel. But they are corrupted and they pervert justice. So because of such a situation the Israelites want a king. But it displeases Samuel who prays to Yah.weh to know what to do. And Yah.weh tells Samuel to do as they want but it means once again they have rejected him but it is the very nature of Israel to constantly reject Yah.weh and serve other gods and they started doing it right at the beginning when they left Egypt. But the Israelites are warned because the king will ask for their sons for his army and Israel will work for the king. And he will take the best of what they have. And they will become his servants. And they will cry out But Yah.weh will not answer them. But as usual, the people don’t listen to Samuel. And they want to become like the other nations.

- End of the story!

- The Israelites will become a nation like the other nations!

- They will have to pay a high price for that!

- Because a human king won’t behave like Yah.weh!

- And Yah.weh warns them!

- But they never listen!

- What a chosen people!

- What a stupid people!

- They could have had everything and they lost everything!

- Is it possible to be more stupid?

- But the majority of humanity has been doing the same!

- How is it possible to keep thinking of a people of Yah.weh?

- Is it so difficult to understand the Bible?

- Everywhere the Bible speaks about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- Why? Simply because these faithful servants of Yah.weh keep demonstrating their faith in Yah.weh!

 

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1 Samuel 9

Saul belongs to a wealthy family, he is the most handsome man and the tallest in Israel. He meets Samuel who must anoint him as king over Israel. But before that, Samuel invites Saul to eat with him.

- God chooses Saul as king over Israel!

- He is rich, the most handsome and the tallest!

- Everything according to human standards!

- But not according to Yah.weh’s standards!

- He is supposed to free the Israelites from the Philistines!

- But he will make the wrong choices and will oppose Yah.weh!

- He will pay the price for it and so will the Israelites!

- They will be defeated by the Philistines!

- Power corrupts man!

- It is true with religion, politics and trade!

- Thus the Hebrews have never been Yah.weh’s people!

- They have always been corrupted!

- They have always served other gods!

- We can only speak about faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- We can only speak about individuals!

- It is human history!

- On the same line, Yah.weh’s kingdom will direct the new promised land!

- But after 1,000 years, the devil and his demons will be released!

- And mankind will oppose Yah.weh for the last time!

- It will be necessary to purify man’s corruption for the last time!

- And after that, Yah.weh will put an end to man’s corruption!

- For those who will see everything, they will be witnesses of Yah.weh’s action!

- After that and finally, there will be no more corruption on earth!

- No more demons and no more corrupt men to endanger the earth!

- It will be incredible to see that!

- Yah.weh’s way vs man’s way!

 

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1 Samuel 10

Samuel anoints Saul as king of Israel and tells him where to go and what to do and he will receive God’s spirit and will prophesy and become another person. Then they will meet again and Samuel will make a sacrifice and he will tell him what to do next.

- Samuel tells Saul what to do!

- Everything is well organized!

- Of course because it comes from Yah.weh!

- Nothing is left to chance!

- That’s the definition of Yah.weh!

- He is The Architect of the Universe!

- Wherever we go, whatever we see, we always find organization!

- The structure of the universe is incredible!

- It is exactly the same with small particles!

- We can say the same with the human body!

- Man has lost perfection!

- And Yah.weh has reduced man’s potential a lot!

- He can’t stay young, he is ill, he dies!

- But man is still incredibly made!

- Why is he such a chaos?

- He can only bring destruction!

- Hopefully, Yah.weh will put an end to this human farce!

- What is sure is that there is no limits to human brains!

- We only put limits by our actions!

- But the more we use it, the more we can use and develop its connections!

 

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1 Samuel 11

Saul and Samuel organize Israel to fight against the Ammonites and they defeat them and Saul is made king by Israel in Gilgal and sacrifices are offered!

- Saul’s kingship is validated by the victory over the Ammonites!

- Everything starts well!

- Saul is put forward!

- Samuel is behind!

- Israel rejoices!

- But it won’t last!

- Man usually follows the wrong way meaning his way to favor himself against the others!

- As everyone does the same, it has never worked and will never worked!

- We have reached the end of the system!

- it is completely out of order!

- Everything goes into pieces!

- We live in a world of clowns!

 

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1 Samuel 12

Samuel speaks before Israel, he says he is old, he did his best as judge over Israel and Israel testifies about Samuel’s great job for them. And he speaks about all the sins of Israel and the price they have been paying for that. He warns Israel if the people oppose God. And he is going to call on God to bring thunder and rain as it is the wheat harvest so they can understand what they have done against God by asking for a human king. Thus the same day God made it thunder and rain so Israel was greatly in fear of God and of Samuel. And Samuel will continue to instruct Israel. But he warns them again to follow God if they don’t want to be punished.

- Israel is warned!

- Israel sins!

- Israel is punished!

- And the story repeats all the time!

- Except that the sins are so numerous that they will end up being rejected!

- Thus Israelites can be ashamed to be Israelites!

- Men can be ashamed to be men because of mankind’s sins!

- As a consequence, we should demonstrate our faith to Yah.weh with actions!

- If we are lukewarm, we are condemned!

- If we don’t do our best, Jesus’ sacrifice won’t be enough to open up the door of the new promised land for us!

- We will stay at the door meaning that we will die because we, as men, are guilty!

- If we don’t do our best, Yah.weh will consider us as clowns and strangers!

- And he won’t care about us!

- As individuals, we can be saved,

- As individuals, we can encourage others to act and save themselves if they want to demonstrate their own faith to Yah.weh!

- And if they don’t,that’s their personal choice!

- We won’t be guilty because of their bad choices!

- Yah.weh will be the only leader of the universe!

- And he won’t accept those who are not acceptable according to his criterias!

- And he will be the only boss!

- Those who are not satisfied with him won’t be accepted in his new promised land!

- Like it or not, it won’t change anything!

- Time is coming when Yah.weh will be the only one who can say you will live or you will die!

- End of the story!

- That’s reality, no dream!

- There will be no surprise!

- Nobody will be able to say, I didn’t know!

- It is written in the Bible!

- You don’t care, Yah.weh won’t care either!

- If we don’t have our pass for the new promised land, we will be rejected!

- If we don’t have our pass, we will be considered illegal!

 

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1 Samuel 13

Jonathan, Saul’s son, strikes a garrison of the Philistines and Saul let the people know about it and they are told to follow Saul against the philistines. So the philistines go against Israel and the people are trembling. And they keep waiting for Samuel to come. But the people begin to leave Saul so he decides to make a sacrifice. But as soon as he has done it, Samuel arrives and tells him that he has acted foolishly. And because of that, his kingdom won’t last and somebody will take it from him because he didn’t obey what God commanded him. And Israel doesn’t have many weapons because it was forbidden by the Philistines.

- Once again we are warned!

- Only the High Priest could offer sacrifices to God!

- The king couldn’t do it himself!

- But Saul did it!

- As a consequence he will lose everything!

- And humanity never understands!

- And God warns again and again!

- It happened with Israel!

- It has been happening with humanity!

- The price will be very high to pay!

- A question of life and death!

- It is just incredible when you get a book, the Bible, with one message!

- And how men can turn it into different messages with different meanings!

- The Hebrews did it so many times and they were destroyed as a people!

- And it is exactly the same with mankind!

- They never understand!

- Probably when people keep repeating the same things, they finish believing it it true!

- The problem here it is that we have the Bible and we have the story about the Hebrews and mankind!

- The Hebrews made a bad end!

- Mankind has already made a bad end and keeps doing it with the final as a super bad end!

- Something which has never happened before to such an extent!

- And it will happen again after the 1,000 years!

- Thus again and again!

- And they don’t want to listen!

- And they don’t care!

- That’s free will!

- But there will be an end!

- Then no more free will to behave stupidly!

- Yah.weh has organized everything so that human stupidity can disappear forever!

 

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1 Samuel 14

Jonathan decides to go against a garrison of the Philistines without telling his father and he wins. And the Philistines are in great confusion and they fight against each other. And the Israelites who fled or went with the Philistines come back to Saul and they pursue the Philistines. And God saves the Israelites. But Saul had told the Israelites not to eat before the evening and having finished with the Philistines. But Jonathan doesn’t know so he eats honey and his face begins to shine and the people tell him. And Jonathan says it was a mistake from his father because the Israelites could have killed many more Philistines. But at the end the people are so hungry that they eat the cattle with the blood but it is forbidden by God. So Saul says to the Israelites to make sacrifices to be forgiven by God. And Saul wants to fight against the Philistines so the priest tells him to ask God but God doesn’t answer so Saul wants to know who has sinned. And Jonathan says that he ate a bit of honey. So Saul wants to kill him but the people oppose Saul because the victory is possible because of him. So the people rescue Jonathan and Saul stops pursuing the Philistines. Saul secures his kingship over Israel and fights all his enemies and he defeats all of them. There is fierce warfare with the Philistines all the days of Saul.

- We are told about a story of wars!

- Jonathan eats not knowing his father said the Israelites couldn’t do it till the evening!

- As a consequence of Saul’s sayings, the Israelites are starving and they eat the cattle with their blood which is a sin!

- Bad decisions lead to sins against Yah.weh!


- And sins accumulate to a great extent!

- When we look at today’s society, it is so far away from Yah.weh that it is nonsense!

- And the world is getting crazy!

- And the scientists are warning the political leaders!

- But political leaders are trying to survive now so they don’t care about what comes next!

- The problem is that everything accumulates and the pressure will become more and more unbearable!

- And history is a warning but they turned off the alarm a long time ago!

- Is our alarm off?

- Here we have two ways: Jonathan goes one way, Saul goes another one!

- Jonathan is successful, Saul will keep fighting the Philistines all his life and they will kill him and his sons!

- PRIDE VS HUMILITY!

- In Yah.weh’s next promised land, there will only be humility!

- There won’t be any room for human pride!

- THE ONLY BOSS WILL BE YAH.WEH!

 

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1 Samuel 15

Samuel tells Saul that God has sent him to anoint him as king over Israel. Saul will have to strike the Amalekites and destroy them (man, woman, child and infant and all the animals) with all that they have because they opposed Israel. So they killed all the Amalekites except king Agag and the best of the flock and all that is good. But they destroy everything which is worthless. Then God tells Samuel what Saul and the Israelites have done and Samuel is very upset and he keeps crying out to God all night long. When Samuel arrives, Saul tells him he has done everything according to God. So Samuel asks about the flock and Saul says that the people have spared the herd for sacrificing to God. And Samuel tells him to stop. Because he hasn’t done according to God’s word, obeying God is better than a sacrifice. As a consequence, God has rejected Saul and he will put somebody else as king over Israel. And Saul kills Agag. And Samuel leaves and will never see Saul again.

- All the time God says one thing to Israel and all the time Israel rebels!

- But they never understand!

- And he strikes again and again!

- And when they can’t stand it they call for God’s help again!

- And when things get better, they start to rebel against God!

- What about humanity?

- It is exactly the same story!

- They never understand!

- Till the end they will never understand!

- And when the end comes, it will be too late!

- They may cry, but it will be too late!

- Justice implies that everybody must pay for his actions!

- Why are human beings so stupid?

- Because they are too superficial?

- They think they are important!

- But they are good for nothing!

- That’s why the Bible tells about God and few faithful human beings!

- But being a human being is such a shame!

- Yah.weh’s word vs human tradition!

- Everything is written in the Bible!

- And they keep following human tradition as the Hebrews did!

- Really a joke!

- But there will be a time to cry!

- But it happened to the Hebrews!

- Ah no sorry, they are Yah.weh’s people!

- Yah.weh will strike them as he stroke the Hebrews!

- END OF THE JOKE!