1 Nahash[a] the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will be subject to you.” 2 But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel.”
This is extreme arrogance. The bully doesn’t just want your lunch money, he wants to completely mock and humiliate you in front of the entire school. This reminds me of the bully that picked on Samuel’s mother in chapter 1. God was not willing to let Jabesh Gilead surrender, He wanted to show Israel how a king in His hands could wrought salvation.
3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days so we can send messengers throughout Israel; if no one comes to rescue us, we will surrender to you.” 4 When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.
Since the election we have seen lots of boasting and arrogant threats. There have been elected officials and news anchors arguing they need to take the kids of all those who voted for Trump (75 million?) and deprogram them. This from the same people who passed an executive order so that boys can compete in girls sports, they can use girls restrooms and they can use the girls locker room. This is simply God saying are you really going to wimp out to these bullies?
5 Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, “What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?” Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said. 6 When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he burned with anger. 7 He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out together as one.
North Dakota has responded that they will ignore Biden’s executive orders. He can say whatever they want but they have no intention of enforcing them. Wyoming voted to censure Liz Cheney and request her resignation. California has collected the votes necessary for a recall vote of Governor Newsom. This governor had 64% approval just a few months ago and California is the “Democratic stronghold”. Arizona is planning on enforcing orders that election officials have rejected even if they have to arrest them and put them in prison. Missouri is also planning on ignoring Biden’s orders. Florida has taken action to pass laws against social media that censors people in violation of their laws. If other states adopt these laws it could be crippling to Facebook and Twitter. Texas has filed lawsuits to put a stop on some of Biden’s orders. Now you can say that Saul is inciting people with this threat about cutting up his oxen. But this is what we are seeing from Mike Lindell. They have slandered him, attacked him, censored him and banned him from media platforms. They have tried to cancel his business. Everyone understands that what they have done to Mike they will do to all. Likewise they completely squashed Parler. Everyone can see that what they have done to Parler they will do to all.
8 When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand. 9 They told the messengers who had come, “Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be rescued.’” When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated. 10 They said to the Ammonites, “Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do to us whatever you like.”
Ten companies stopped doing business with Mike Lindell even though his pillows were one of their very best selling products. So what happened, his sales increased. People around the country rallied to him and made orders online. Dan Bongino had to leave Youtube and within a month he had more subscribers on Rumble than he had built up over many years on Youtube. Twitter kicked 70,000 people off their platform and now people who are still there say it is boring and stale. They didn’t just remove a portion of their customers, they removed those who were creating content that everyone else was feeding off of. So what do you do? If they go to another platform and then retweet the comments on Twitter that would be the double whammy. The other platform gets all the views and activity and Twitter still pushes out the content. If they don’t allow that they force those who are remaining on Twitter to leave.
11 The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
CNN showed a 44% drop in the ratings after Trump left office. They no longer had anything to talk about that anyone wanted to listen to. This is a three pronged battle, on one side it is the mainstream media that is clearly just the propaganda arm of the left. There was an excellent journalist who has been releasing tapes of CNN strategy meetings where they were clearly taking orders from Biden’s campaign on what stories to cover, what not to cover, and how to spin the stories. On the other side you have the tech giants like Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon.com. What they did to Parler, what they did concerning the Hunter Biden story, and what they did to President Trump was viewed by everyone worldwide. Australia is passing laws similar to what Florida has proposed. Germany, France, Mexico and Uganda have all responded to what they saw in the US. I suspect that when Twitter, Facebook, Google and Amazon.com begin showing their numbers we’ll see similar drops that we saw with CNN. Bezos the head of Amazon.com has already resigned. We have three other very high profile resignations being called “scalps”. Then the third wing of this battle is with the US government. They are impeaching Trump but this impeachment will be turned into an impeachment of them. Trump’s legal team plans on taking the charges against Trump and convict the Democrats of these things. I am praying that no two of these leftists will be left together.
12 The people then said to Samuel, “Who was it that asked, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.”
I would respond that it was some scoundrels but we should really say that all things are under the sovereignty of God. I heard that Bill Maher blamed the Capitol riot on Christians. He basically said Christians are delusional (used book of Revelation as his proof) and that was why they idolized Trump.
13 But Saul said, “No one will be put to death today, for this day the Lord has rescued Israel.”
There are many who are not for “cancel culture”. I am ambivalent. Last chapter we were reminded that Saul’s big failure (hasn’t happened yet) is that he was unable to wait for Samuel. During that failure what did we see? Samuel put Agag to death. So what is the logic here? Israel’s history is all about the cross. Abraham sacrificed Isaac and wound up sacrificing a ram in his stead. Joseph had an experience similar to going through death and resurrection. The exodus from Egypt involved the Lord rescuing Israel and at the same time it involved the judgement of the Lord on Pharaoh’s armies. What Saul says here sounds good, sounds spiritual, but in reality it sounds like he is speaking from himself. I would contrast this with what David said when he refused to kill Saul when he had a chance. He said "this is the Lord's anointed". His respect was totally for God, I will not touch someone that God has anointed, that is God's decision. But the logic here is much fuzzier: today was a good day let's not ruin that.
14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.” 15 So all the people went to Gilgal and made Saul king in the presence of the Lord. There they sacrificed fellowship offerings before the Lord, and Saul and all the Israelites held a great celebration.
You don’t become king simply because Samuel says you are king. That works for a few who have great faith in Samuel being a man of God. You become king by defeating the enemies of Israel. That is what everyone else can see.
This is extreme arrogance. The bully doesn’t just want your lunch money, he wants to completely mock and humiliate you in front of the entire school. This reminds me of the bully that picked on Samuel’s mother in chapter 1. God was not willing to let Jabesh Gilead surrender, He wanted to show Israel how a king in His hands could wrought salvation.
3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days so we can send messengers throughout Israel; if no one comes to rescue us, we will surrender to you.” 4 When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.
Since the election we have seen lots of boasting and arrogant threats. There have been elected officials and news anchors arguing they need to take the kids of all those who voted for Trump (75 million?) and deprogram them. This from the same people who passed an executive order so that boys can compete in girls sports, they can use girls restrooms and they can use the girls locker room. This is simply God saying are you really going to wimp out to these bullies?
5 Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, “What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?” Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said. 6 When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he burned with anger. 7 He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out together as one.
North Dakota has responded that they will ignore Biden’s executive orders. He can say whatever they want but they have no intention of enforcing them. Wyoming voted to censure Liz Cheney and request her resignation. California has collected the votes necessary for a recall vote of Governor Newsom. This governor had 64% approval just a few months ago and California is the “Democratic stronghold”. Arizona is planning on enforcing orders that election officials have rejected even if they have to arrest them and put them in prison. Missouri is also planning on ignoring Biden’s orders. Florida has taken action to pass laws against social media that censors people in violation of their laws. If other states adopt these laws it could be crippling to Facebook and Twitter. Texas has filed lawsuits to put a stop on some of Biden’s orders. Now you can say that Saul is inciting people with this threat about cutting up his oxen. But this is what we are seeing from Mike Lindell. They have slandered him, attacked him, censored him and banned him from media platforms. They have tried to cancel his business. Everyone understands that what they have done to Mike they will do to all. Likewise they completely squashed Parler. Everyone can see that what they have done to Parler they will do to all.
8 When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand. 9 They told the messengers who had come, “Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be rescued.’” When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated. 10 They said to the Ammonites, “Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do to us whatever you like.”
Ten companies stopped doing business with Mike Lindell even though his pillows were one of their very best selling products. So what happened, his sales increased. People around the country rallied to him and made orders online. Dan Bongino had to leave Youtube and within a month he had more subscribers on Rumble than he had built up over many years on Youtube. Twitter kicked 70,000 people off their platform and now people who are still there say it is boring and stale. They didn’t just remove a portion of their customers, they removed those who were creating content that everyone else was feeding off of. So what do you do? If they go to another platform and then retweet the comments on Twitter that would be the double whammy. The other platform gets all the views and activity and Twitter still pushes out the content. If they don’t allow that they force those who are remaining on Twitter to leave.
11 The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
CNN showed a 44% drop in the ratings after Trump left office. They no longer had anything to talk about that anyone wanted to listen to. This is a three pronged battle, on one side it is the mainstream media that is clearly just the propaganda arm of the left. There was an excellent journalist who has been releasing tapes of CNN strategy meetings where they were clearly taking orders from Biden’s campaign on what stories to cover, what not to cover, and how to spin the stories. On the other side you have the tech giants like Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon.com. What they did to Parler, what they did concerning the Hunter Biden story, and what they did to President Trump was viewed by everyone worldwide. Australia is passing laws similar to what Florida has proposed. Germany, France, Mexico and Uganda have all responded to what they saw in the US. I suspect that when Twitter, Facebook, Google and Amazon.com begin showing their numbers we’ll see similar drops that we saw with CNN. Bezos the head of Amazon.com has already resigned. We have three other very high profile resignations being called “scalps”. Then the third wing of this battle is with the US government. They are impeaching Trump but this impeachment will be turned into an impeachment of them. Trump’s legal team plans on taking the charges against Trump and convict the Democrats of these things. I am praying that no two of these leftists will be left together.
12 The people then said to Samuel, “Who was it that asked, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.”
I would respond that it was some scoundrels but we should really say that all things are under the sovereignty of God. I heard that Bill Maher blamed the Capitol riot on Christians. He basically said Christians are delusional (used book of Revelation as his proof) and that was why they idolized Trump.
13 But Saul said, “No one will be put to death today, for this day the Lord has rescued Israel.”
There are many who are not for “cancel culture”. I am ambivalent. Last chapter we were reminded that Saul’s big failure (hasn’t happened yet) is that he was unable to wait for Samuel. During that failure what did we see? Samuel put Agag to death. So what is the logic here? Israel’s history is all about the cross. Abraham sacrificed Isaac and wound up sacrificing a ram in his stead. Joseph had an experience similar to going through death and resurrection. The exodus from Egypt involved the Lord rescuing Israel and at the same time it involved the judgement of the Lord on Pharaoh’s armies. What Saul says here sounds good, sounds spiritual, but in reality it sounds like he is speaking from himself. I would contrast this with what David said when he refused to kill Saul when he had a chance. He said "this is the Lord's anointed". His respect was totally for God, I will not touch someone that God has anointed, that is God's decision. But the logic here is much fuzzier: today was a good day let's not ruin that.
14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.” 15 So all the people went to Gilgal and made Saul king in the presence of the Lord. There they sacrificed fellowship offerings before the Lord, and Saul and all the Israelites held a great celebration.
You don’t become king simply because Samuel says you are king. That works for a few who have great faith in Samuel being a man of God. You become king by defeating the enemies of Israel. That is what everyone else can see.