1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. 2 All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.
We are seeing this same thing today. Why did so many people gather to Trump? They were in distress, in debt or they were discontented. The ruling elites had passed NAFTA that sent all their jobs to Mexico and China. The ruling elites allowed the mortgage crisis which saw millions of Americans get illegally scammed out of their homes by the banks only to then see Obama bailout the banks. No one went to jail, instead they gave themselves big bonuses. Clinton, Bush and Obama all worked together on these despicable actions. We went to war after 9/11 in Iraq even though they had nothing to do with it. We went to war in Iraq again because of WMD’s even though that also was a lie. The VA hospital was an embarrassment before Trump took office. So there were a lot of reasons why people were unhappy, they lost their job, they lost their house and they lost their son all because of lies from their government. Meanwhile Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and Feinstein are all becoming exceedingly wealthy by selling off the US to the highest bidder.
3 From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?” 4 So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.
5 But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
I like this, act like a king, shepherd the people. Do not run and hide from the wolves like a hireling. Let the enemy focus his attack on you, that way you will act as a shield for the people.
6 Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And Saul was seated, spear in hand, under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with all his officials standing at his side. 7 He said to them, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? 8 Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.”
Reminds me of the presidential campaign. Vote for Biden you will get free healthcare, $2,000 and free college. He is lunch pale Joe, cares for the little guy. He’ll double minimum wage to $15. First thing Joe does as president is to reverse an order Trump gave concerning insulin. I saw a video where a woman said that her son’s prescription jumped from $60 a month to $325 and it would be over $500 a month only she had a coupon this time. So much for free health care. The promise of $2,000 quickly became $1400. Yes, they are trying to double minimum wage to $15 an hour but at the same time they are opening the border to 25,000 immigrants and emptying the jails of illegals who have been imprisoned. So while an employer will have to pay an American $15 an hour they can get away with paying illegals less. He cancelled the pipeline in the US killing thousands of jobs while at the same time supporting a pipeline being built in Afghanistan by the Taliban. He cancelled oil and gas production on federal land which is bankrupting many states as that was a significant portion of their tax revenue. A lot of promises that were nothing but lies.
9 But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. 10 Ahimelek inquired of the Lord for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11 Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king. 12 Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.”
“Yes, my lord,” he answered.
13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?”
14 Ahimelek answered the king, “Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king’s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household? 15 Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father’s family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.”
16 But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.”
17 Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.”
But the king’s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord.
18 The king then ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 19 He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.
People need to wake up, cancel culture is like a pack of hyenas, they really don’t care who they kill or cancel.
20 But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. 21 He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord. 22 Then David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family. 23 Stay with me; don’t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.”
Wow, this reminds me of our current events where Trump said “they hate me because they hate you”. The news is supposed to be a priesthood, independent of the king, they answer only to God, they speak the word of God and they inquire of God on various matters. The way a totalitarian regime takes control of the priesthood is to kill 85 priests and then install their own puppet priesthood. We are seeing this today with cancel culture. Half of NY Times reporters have said they are not permitted to speak freely. This is what we saw with the sixty minutes expose on the cigarette companies. They threatened a billion dollar lawsuit and the lawyers prevented them from reporting the news. This was half the scandal, that the “priesthood” of sixty minutes had been compromised by the ruling elites. Today we are seeing the advancement of that, the tech giants are censoring and cancelling people left and right. Twitter banned 7,000 channels including the President of the United States. They say it is about hate speech and yet you can find plenty of hate speech on Twitter that is not banned. What it really is about is banning any speech that disagrees with leftists totalitarianism. A pro life group was banned for “hate speech”. Parler was shut down by Amazon, Google, and Apple working in a coordinated attack. They justified it saying that the riot on January 6th was organized on Parler. After investigations were done it turns out that the riot was organized on Twitter, Discord and Facebook and yet none of those platforms has been shut down. They are mocking and ridiculing churches. I suspect that they will continue to find reasons to keep churches shut down or unable to function fully. They are trying to change the curriculum in public schools to be all about indoctrination for the leftist totalitarian regime very similar to what Hitler did with the youth in Germany.
We are seeing this same thing today. Why did so many people gather to Trump? They were in distress, in debt or they were discontented. The ruling elites had passed NAFTA that sent all their jobs to Mexico and China. The ruling elites allowed the mortgage crisis which saw millions of Americans get illegally scammed out of their homes by the banks only to then see Obama bailout the banks. No one went to jail, instead they gave themselves big bonuses. Clinton, Bush and Obama all worked together on these despicable actions. We went to war after 9/11 in Iraq even though they had nothing to do with it. We went to war in Iraq again because of WMD’s even though that also was a lie. The VA hospital was an embarrassment before Trump took office. So there were a lot of reasons why people were unhappy, they lost their job, they lost their house and they lost their son all because of lies from their government. Meanwhile Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and Feinstein are all becoming exceedingly wealthy by selling off the US to the highest bidder.
3 From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?” 4 So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.
5 But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
I like this, act like a king, shepherd the people. Do not run and hide from the wolves like a hireling. Let the enemy focus his attack on you, that way you will act as a shield for the people.
6 Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And Saul was seated, spear in hand, under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with all his officials standing at his side. 7 He said to them, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? 8 Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.”
Reminds me of the presidential campaign. Vote for Biden you will get free healthcare, $2,000 and free college. He is lunch pale Joe, cares for the little guy. He’ll double minimum wage to $15. First thing Joe does as president is to reverse an order Trump gave concerning insulin. I saw a video where a woman said that her son’s prescription jumped from $60 a month to $325 and it would be over $500 a month only she had a coupon this time. So much for free health care. The promise of $2,000 quickly became $1400. Yes, they are trying to double minimum wage to $15 an hour but at the same time they are opening the border to 25,000 immigrants and emptying the jails of illegals who have been imprisoned. So while an employer will have to pay an American $15 an hour they can get away with paying illegals less. He cancelled the pipeline in the US killing thousands of jobs while at the same time supporting a pipeline being built in Afghanistan by the Taliban. He cancelled oil and gas production on federal land which is bankrupting many states as that was a significant portion of their tax revenue. A lot of promises that were nothing but lies.
9 But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. 10 Ahimelek inquired of the Lord for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11 Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king. 12 Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.”
“Yes, my lord,” he answered.
13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?”
14 Ahimelek answered the king, “Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king’s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household? 15 Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father’s family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.”
16 But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.”
17 Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.”
But the king’s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord.
18 The king then ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 19 He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.
People need to wake up, cancel culture is like a pack of hyenas, they really don’t care who they kill or cancel.
20 But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. 21 He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord. 22 Then David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family. 23 Stay with me; don’t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.”
Wow, this reminds me of our current events where Trump said “they hate me because they hate you”. The news is supposed to be a priesthood, independent of the king, they answer only to God, they speak the word of God and they inquire of God on various matters. The way a totalitarian regime takes control of the priesthood is to kill 85 priests and then install their own puppet priesthood. We are seeing this today with cancel culture. Half of NY Times reporters have said they are not permitted to speak freely. This is what we saw with the sixty minutes expose on the cigarette companies. They threatened a billion dollar lawsuit and the lawyers prevented them from reporting the news. This was half the scandal, that the “priesthood” of sixty minutes had been compromised by the ruling elites. Today we are seeing the advancement of that, the tech giants are censoring and cancelling people left and right. Twitter banned 7,000 channels including the President of the United States. They say it is about hate speech and yet you can find plenty of hate speech on Twitter that is not banned. What it really is about is banning any speech that disagrees with leftists totalitarianism. A pro life group was banned for “hate speech”. Parler was shut down by Amazon, Google, and Apple working in a coordinated attack. They justified it saying that the riot on January 6th was organized on Parler. After investigations were done it turns out that the riot was organized on Twitter, Discord and Facebook and yet none of those platforms has been shut down. They are mocking and ridiculing churches. I suspect that they will continue to find reasons to keep churches shut down or unable to function fully. They are trying to change the curriculum in public schools to be all about indoctrination for the leftist totalitarian regime very similar to what Hitler did with the youth in Germany.