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four fifty five, first Samuel

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eight through ten, part two.

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I'm the layman, Trey Strickland, and he's color,

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Dr. Michael Heiser. Hey, Mike. How you doing?

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Not too bad. Not too bad. That's

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good. Fantasy football seasons winding

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down, Trey. Yeah. It is.

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And as we record this one

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week to go, there are we just

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looked at it and you're still in it, though.

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We've got eight teams fighting

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for four playoff spots, so

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you're not out of it quite yet.

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Yeah.

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It's not looking good, though.

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No. No.

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My quarterback tanked me this

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year. Russell

1:05

Wilson tanked me this year.

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Yeah. All you did for Bronco fans

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out there. I don't

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know what's going on, but it's

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been rough year stuck with them for real

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life. Yeah. Yeah. It's

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been pretty rough for them. I fill

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you, but can't complain because it's you know, my cowboys

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are are cruising, so

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it's

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all peaches

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and cream over here.

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I'd like your

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Green Bay packers. Yeah.

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Well, I

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wasn't expecting much from them during the

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year. Did you

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get any more voting shares? Just go into this

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I

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have two. No. You got two now. Okay.

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Well, maybe you can -- Yeah.

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Write them a letter and say, as a shareholder,

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I demand this a Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

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But I demand more intelligence at draft

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time. Yeah. Well,

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you always get like an a plus. You always do

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the best on drafts according

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to the software, which

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I find funny. They love you

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on draft day.

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Yeah. Yeah. Well,

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everybody was liking Russell Wilson

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on draft day, and

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I pretty much got torpedoed about

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a third of the way through the season.

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I did.

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It's crazy. It's been a strange year of football,

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Alright, Mike? Yeah. Absolutely. I'm

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excited about part two. I

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assume this is gonna wrap up eight

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through ten.

3:47

Yep. That's correct. So

3:50

let's just jump in here. It

3:52

it you know, this is a part two. So if

3:54

you haven't listened to part one yet,

3:57

hey,

3:57

you need to get with the program. You need to listen

3:59

to part one

3:59

first because

4:01

I'm not gonna you know, we

4:03

can't spend the time to repeat

4:05

things we talked about in part one, but they're

4:07

important for part two. The

4:09

wider context of what we're

4:11

dealing with here, I can glean this

4:13

much from part one

4:15

is

4:15

that we talked about the positive

4:18

view of kingship that

4:19

tested in the Torah and the Psalms

4:22

and numbers book

4:23

of Ruth, first and second chronicles,

4:26

places like that that

4:28

would either predate or be

4:30

contemporaneous with the authorship

4:32

of the

4:33

deuteronomistic Heiser. Again, that's part

4:35

of what First Samuel

4:37

the

4:38

and that's first first the

4:40

second Samuel are part of the deuteronomistic history.

4:42

This

4:43

notion that this whole block of scripture

4:45

from, you

4:46

know, some 1 include deuteronomy, others

4:49

would not, but At

4:50

least parts of deuteronomy,

4:52

all

4:52

the way through second kings was authored

4:55

by either

4:55

one person or one particular

4:58

group of people.

4:59

Because of the the

5:01

way the

5:02

the themes in it are unified. kingship

5:04

is one of those

5:06

themes. So you have all these

5:08

you

5:08

have positive assessments

5:10

of

5:10

kingship in the

5:11

Torah, you know,

5:13

outside the Torah in in part of

5:15

the deuteronomistic Heiser, but then you get

5:17

this little This

5:18

little snippet in the first Samuel eight where it

5:21

looks like kingship isn't a good idea

5:23

because Samuel objects to it.

5:24

We

5:25

we argued last time

5:27

that

5:28

needs to be set in context. I mean,

5:30

it has a certain context. And so we

5:32

we talked about that. We build off

5:34

the

5:34

work of

5:36

your broad and then Dave Howard

5:39

summaries of his work

5:41

in two articles in part one.

5:43

And it

5:43

was conclude that we need to ask what kind

5:46

of kingship that he revival envisioned

5:48

and

5:49

positively presupposed

5:51

not

5:51

whether Israel was supposed to have a

5:54

king at all. Kroger

5:56

brought the king was to lead Israel

5:58

by

5:58

being the covenant

5:59

administrator. Then

6:01

he could trust the trust yahweh to

6:03

deliver. At the heart of it, this

6:05

covenant was Israel's obligation to

6:07

be totally loyal to yahweh. Again,

6:11

this this whole theme of believing loyalty

6:13

fits right in here with

6:15

what's going on with the kingship.

6:17

So

6:17

we need to ask what kind of kingship

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God was looking for as

6:21

opposed to what the people were asking

6:23

for. Have

6:24

your brand reached this conclusion by

6:26

first studying the reigns of Josiah and

6:28

Hazakiah. Two

6:30

unique Judahite kings, they were unique

6:32

because they alone were assessed as quote,

6:35

turning to the lord with all their heart,

6:37

soul, and light, which mime

6:39

the words of the Shima. Those

6:42

are the only two kings this is set about.

6:45

So the fact that you had kings where

6:47

this was set about and that that are

6:49

positively assessed in

6:51

the deuteronomists history shows that the deuteronomistic

6:54

history doesn't have an

6:56

exclusively negative view of kingship.

6:58

There's something else going on. The

7:00

goal of kingship all along was

7:03

to have, you

7:04

know, was to leave the nation and believing loyalty.

7:06

That's what the king's job was supposed

7:08

to be and

7:09

that's part of what we concluded in part

7:11

one. You know,

7:12

God wanted someone to be the par excellence

7:15

example. Of

7:17

trusting in yahweh. This is why deuteronomy

7:19

seventeen eighteen required

7:22

each king to write out his own copy

7:24

of the law and

7:25

we call that from part 1.

7:27

The

7:27

king was to be invested in a

7:30

relationship with yahweh. That

7:32

would be an example to everybody else.

7:34

The law was to be his focus, not

7:36

the normative interest of kingship like,

7:39

acquiring wealth, expansion of

7:41

territory, entangling

7:43

alliances through political marriages

7:46

exaltation of his own dynasty. This

7:49

is what it's not what the king was supposed to

7:51

be about. Rather the king was

7:53

supposed to be the the premier exact

7:55

evening of

7:57

some Josh

8:00

believing that Yahoo! Would fight for Israel

8:02

and soliciting Yahoo!'s direction

8:04

in battle. Of course, this is not

8:06

what they're gonna get. A request

8:08

for kingship in First Ambulate was

8:11

viewed negatively because of the

8:13

way it was sought and why.

8:15

To ask for a king like all the other

8:17

nations had

8:20

was not at all that

8:22

to want to be a king who'd be loyal to the

8:24

Iway. They had a permanent

8:26

judge ship in mind, the people that anyway I

8:28

mean, it's obvious the people when

8:30

they ask for a king, they don't say give us a king who'll

8:32

be loyalty all the way all his days.

8:35

It's give us a king to be like the other nations.

8:38

So

8:38

they had a permanent military

8:40

judge ship in mind with

8:42

with that sort of focus, not a

8:45

permanent spiritual leader.

8:46

You know? And you have to wonder

8:49

just by analogy, again,

8:51

I was looking for an analogy for this, and

8:53

and this is the 1II came up

8:55

with. What if we chose pastors?

8:59

Specifically with their spiritual life and

9:01

view. They were

9:02

that that that was preeminent

9:04

over everything else. It was

9:06

it was more important than, you

9:08

know, their speaking ability or

9:10

their

9:10

administrative ability, or

9:12

where they went to school or something

9:15

like that. That that that

9:17

you actually judged your

9:19

pastoral candidates by,

9:21

you know, whether

9:23

their lives were, you know, were convicting

9:25

you. You know? That, you

9:27

know, the way they live was a model, you

9:29

know, for the you know, you wanted to

9:31

live. What what what who was criteria like

9:33

that? And that that's

9:34

that's what was going on with the kingship. This is

9:37

what Yahoo! He wanted. He wanted

9:39

someone to follow in

9:41

the in the steps of Moses and

9:43

Joshua. Again, in their

9:45

example of looking to him is

9:47

this you

9:47

know, really 810 ultimate leader of the

9:50

nation was supposed to be God himself.

9:52

So again,

9:53

but that's not what that's not what they're gonna get. It's

9:56

not what they ask for. They're they're gonna get exactly what

9:58

they ask for as it turns out, which turns

9:59

out to to not be a great thing.

10:01

In

10:02

Sal's case, so if we take this to first

10:05

simulate to ten,

10:07

Let's read the request in first

10:09

Samuel eight one through six. When

10:11

Samuel became old, he made his son's

10:13

judges over Israel. The

10:15

name of his firstborn son was Joel,

10:18

the name of his second Abaija.

10:21

They were judges in Toshiba. This,

10:24

yet his sons did not walk in

10:26

his ways, but turned aside

10:28

after gain. They took

10:30

bribes and perverted justice. Then

10:32

all the elders of Israel gathered together

10:34

and came to Samuel and Rama

10:36

and said to him, behold,

10:39

you are old and your sons do not walk

10:41

in your way. Now a

10:43

point for us, a king to judge us

10:45

like all the nations. But

10:47

the thing this flea saver when they said

10:49

give us a king like it goes to king to

10:51

judges. But the point here

10:53

is they weren't asking for spiritual

10:55

leadership. They wanted

10:57

national security. Not

11:00

spiritual leadership. They

11:01

wanted someone who would get rid of the Philistines,

11:03

for example. You

11:05

know, they they could have

11:07

asked, give you know, point for us, a king

11:09

who who won't be corrupted or a king

11:11

who will who will do justly, a

11:13

king who will rule us justly,

11:15

something like that. You know, to

11:17

get the real problems of Samuel's

11:19

sons, but that's not what they asked for. They want a

11:21

king so that they can be like

11:23

all the other nations. They want

11:25

permanent national security over the

11:27

people who who were oppressing

11:29

them, who had been oppressing them in the period

11:31

of judges. God's

11:33

response comes in the next few

11:35

verses verses seven through

11:37

nine first seminary. Lord

11:39

said to Samuel obey the voice of the people

11:41

and all they say to you, but they

11:44

have not rejected you, but

11:46

they have rejected me from

11:48

being king over them. Yeah.

11:50

God was supposed to be the king, ultimately.

11:53

According to all the deeds that they have done from

11:55

the day that I brought them up out of Egypt

11:57

even to this day, for

11:59

saking me and

11:59

serving other gods, so they are

12:02

also doing to you.

12:03

Now then obey their voice,

12:05

only you shall solemnly warn

12:07

them. And show them the ways of the

12:09

king who shall reign over there.

12:11

The point here, of course, the request

12:13

shows the impetus

12:15

is not spiritual leadership. Again, they

12:17

aren't asking for another Moses or

12:19

even another Samuel. They want a

12:21

king to be like the other nations. And that

12:24

that that it It's tantamount to a

12:26

rejection of yahweh being their their

12:28

leader. Samuel's

12:30

message to the people comes in first, Samuel eight

12:32

through ten where he basically

12:35

warns the people that having a

12:37

king will come at a cost, especially

12:40

given the military orientation of what

12:42

they want. The king must build

12:44

and maintain a strong a strong

12:46

standing army. And the

12:48

word king isn't synonymous with

12:50

democracy. This is something that people are gonna

12:52

have to learn. Standing

12:55

armies aren't just about head counts of

12:57

people, soldiers and support

12:59

staff.

12:59

Armies need property, they need buildings,

13:02

they need a

13:02

stable food supply, etcetera.

13:05

And full time soldiers aren't gonna

13:07

be doing work that men would otherwise do

13:09

for family and clan and larger

13:11

society. The standing

13:13

army is to be maintained. They

13:15

don't that themselves. Whatever

13:18

jobs the soldiers formerly

13:20

did now has to be done by

13:22

somebody else. You mean, think think of world war

13:24

2 here. And

13:25

how World War two changed our economy

13:28

and and like they it

13:30

brought women into the economy to take the

13:32

place of men because the men were full time

13:34

soldiers now. In in

13:37

verses eight through ten and or

13:39

ten through eighteen in verse and I'm late.

13:41

Samuel tries to warn them.

13:42

About

13:43

what what's gonna happen here. He warns

13:45

them of the cost that's

13:47

that they're gonna incur. And he says

13:49

they're These

13:50

will be the ways of the of the king who will

13:52

reign over you. He will take your sons and appoint them

13:54

to his chariots, to be his

13:57

horsemen and to run before his chariots.

13:59

In his infantry. He will appoint

14:01

for himself commanders of thousands

14:03

and commanders of fifties and some to plow

14:05

the ground and reap his harvest.

14:07

And the the outstanding army 2

14:09

to be fed to

14:11

make his implements of war. You need

14:13

that. The equipment for his chair is he

14:15

will take your daughters and to be

14:17

perfumers and cooks and bakers. He

14:19

will take the best of your fields and vineyards

14:22

and olive washers and give them to

14:24

his servants. He will take the tenth of your

14:26

grain in your vineyards and give it to his

14:28

officers and his his servants. And

14:30

he will take your male servants and

14:32

female servants and the best of your

14:34

young men. And your donkeys and

14:36

put them to work. And this is

14:38

what it's gonna be 2. You know, Sam

14:40

has says, to Samuel

14:42

warns the people that having a king will come at a

14:44

cost, especially given

14:46

the orientation they want. Basically,

14:48

the people are gonna be at the mercy

14:51

of the king. And Samuel

14:53

says this point blank, you

14:55

know, as we

14:55

just read the Louisville, you

14:57

know, this is this is what's gonna

14:59

be the result. You

15:02

want the Lord to do 2. He's gonna do it, and

15:04

it's gonna cost you all these things.

15:07

In that day verse eighteen, Samna

15:09

says, you

15:10

will cry out because of your king

15:12

whom you

15:12

have chosen for yourselves,

15:15

but the Lord will not answer you in

15:17

that day. First point is you better be

15:19

careful what you asked for because God's gonna give it

15:21

to you and this is what it's gonna look 2. But

15:23

the people the people who reject Sam

15:25

is warning and persists. So

15:28

they will get what they asked for in in

15:30

chapter nine when we get there. That's

15:32

essentially chapter eight Sam their request

15:34

to Samuel's warning.

15:37

Says,

15:37

okay, be careful what she asked for because

15:39

you're you're about to get it. Now a few

15:41

observations from chapters nine

15:44

and ten. There are items in the narrative

15:46

that strongly suggest that the Lord in one

15:48

respect is giving the

15:50

people just what they've asked for.

15:52

But on the other hand, there are indications that

15:54

Yahoo! Is thinking ahead and

15:56

working his own agenda. That

15:59

does Yahoo! Manipulate circumstance

16:01

is that we'll expose, solve the people's

16:03

choice and

16:04

ultimately lead the people to David.

16:06

It

16:07

was gonna be Yahweh's choice of a king

16:09

that that Yahoo!desires for Israel.

16:11

In first Samuel nine one

16:13

to ten, again, we're just gonna

16:15

go through a few observations here.

16:18

The way the narrative begins in Hebrew is

16:20

parallel than only three other passages in the

16:22

Hebrew Bible. To

16:24

start start, there is a Benjamin whose name

16:27

is Kish. A very

16:28

plain worn very plain

16:30

opening. The chisholm

16:31

writes this of of

16:34

that line. This story

16:36

begins the same way as the stories of

16:38

Samson and Judges thirteen 2, Micah

16:41

and Judges seventeen. And

16:44

Samuel in first Samuel one

16:46

one. So it

16:48

begins the same way, though it might appear

16:50

to be a standard way of beginning a

16:52

story. A closer look reveals

16:54

that this introductory formula

16:56

that there was a Benjaminite whose

16:58

name was whatever. And there

17:00

was so and so whose name was,

17:02

whatever. It it

17:03

looks formulaic, but

17:05

it occurs

17:06

in only these three passages in

17:08

here in first Samuel nine 1,

17:10

where Saul's family is introduced.

17:12

The parallels between these text

17:14

indicate that the formula links

17:17

stories together by design. There

17:19

are several parallels between

17:21

Samson and Saul 810 instance.

17:24

First, the Lord intends to use both individuals

17:26

to deliver Israel from the Philistines.

17:29

Second, the Lord's spirit

17:31

rushes on both empowering them

17:33

for physical conflict. This

17:35

we get out of judges fourteen

17:37

and judges nineteen of

17:39

Samuel or Samsung excuse me and

17:41

then first Samuel eleven six

17:43

is gonna happen to solve. Third, the Lord

17:45

removes his enabling presence from both of

17:47

them following disobedience. Eventually, that's

17:49

gonna happen to saw in first

17:51

January sixteen as it happened to Samson.

17:55

Four,

17:55

both desire both expire

17:57

with a death wish on their

17:59

lips. Judges

18:00

sixteen thirty in first Samuel thirty

18:02

one 1 thirty six,

18:04

and are

18:04

humiliated by the Philistines, Samson,

18:07

before his death, and saw

18:08

afterward, and the parallels cast

18:10

saw in the role of a second

18:13

Samson. Both are physically

18:15

impressive and seemingly possess

18:17

great promise. But both die

18:19

tragic deaths after disobeyed the

18:21

Lord. By linking Saul

18:23

with Samson, the narrator

18:25

distances Samuel, who

18:27

is unlike Samson, from

18:30

Saul and paves the way for linking the

18:32

prophet with David instead. This

18:35

is a literary feature of the story that

18:37

facilitates the narrator's goal

18:39

of presenting David,

18:41

not Saul, as God's chosen king.

18:44

The negative portrayal of Saul also contributes to

18:46

the narrator narrator's goal of

18:48

presenting David, not Saul

18:50

as God's chosen king.

18:53

Saul ostensibly chosen because of his

18:55

physical attributes remember he was taller than

18:57

everybody else. Crew is

19:00

unfit to rule for a variety of

19:02

reasons. As the story unfolds,

19:04

it becomes clear that the Lord chooses Saul

19:06

by using the People's Standard,

19:09

perhaps to discipline them for their

19:11

rebellion. This

19:13

happens in first Samuel ten, seventeen

19:15

through nineteen. And in the

19:17

process 2 demonstrate the limitations of

19:19

the human perspective they they

19:22

embrace, when they demand a king like the other nations.

19:25

However, when it comes

19:25

to 1 when it comes time to

19:28

replace Saul, The

19:29

Lord picks David the basis of his own standard, which

19:32

gives priority to inner character

19:34

rather than physical attributes.

19:37

In

19:37

first several sixteen

19:40

seven. When the time comes to act

19:42

decisively on the Lord's behalf, David

19:44

demonstrates no

19:46

hesitancy. First acts seventeen against

19:48

Goliath. Secondly, there's

19:51

the name of Israel's Choice of

19:53

King, Saul Shaul. The

19:55

name itself in Hebrew means asked for

19:57

or requested.

20:00

Chisholm writes,

20:00

this is ironic.

20:02

And that

20:03

the narrator has already described the

20:05

people as asking the king asking

20:07

the Lord for a king for a seminary

20:10

ten. Later in his so called

20:12

farewell address the nation.

20:14

Samuel

20:14

twice refers to saw

20:16

as the

20:17

one people, quote, asked

20:20

for. For

20:20

Psalm twelve thirteen seventeen. And

20:23

the people acknowledge that they have sinned

20:25

by asking for a king,

20:27

for Psalm twelve nineteen.

20:29

Saul's very name

20:32

is a reminder of the people soon of

20:34

rejecting the Lord. It

20:36

suggests that he has been chosen according to

20:38

their standards not the Lord's.

20:40

They asked for him and they got what they

20:42

asked for. Thirdly, there's

20:44

the missing donkey's story.

20:47

In first Samuel

20:47

nine, one through fourteen. There's

20:50

some irony

20:51

here as well, chisholm

20:53

notes that

20:53

Saul's request

20:56

to find

20:56

the donkeys leads him to Samuel. If you remember

20:58

the story, here in first

21:00

serial nine, we should read

21:02

a little bit

21:02

of it versus one through

21:05

fourteen. Begins, of

21:06

course, there is a Benjamin whose Benjamin

21:08

whose name was Kish, the son of Avia, the

21:10

son of Azur, son of

21:13

Bekorath, son of a Fia, a Benjamin

21:15

Man of Wealth, Sasol's

21:17

father. He had a son whose

21:18

name was Saul, a handsome young

21:21

man, There was not a man among the

21:23

people of Israel more handsome than he.

21:25

From his shoulders upward, he was

21:27

taller than any of the people. So, you know, they're

21:29

they're majoring on physical characteristics.

21:32

Then we get this story about the donkeys

21:34

of Saul's father, Kish.

21:36

They were

21:37

lost, so Kish said to 2, his

21:40

son, Take one

21:40

of the young men with you and arise, go and

21:43

look for the donkeys. And

21:44

he passed through the hill country of ephraim

21:46

and passed through the land of Shalishah.

21:49

But they did not find them. And they passed the

21:51

land of Charlene. They were not

21:53

there, and then they passed the land of Benjamin,

21:55

but they did not find

21:57

them so they're looking all over the place for these donkeys.

21:59

And eventually,

22:01

providentially, providential

22:04

Samuel winds up me or Saul winds up

22:06

meeting Samuel. And it's

22:08

not a it's not a chance occasion. It's

22:10

something that's engineered. You

22:12

know,

22:12

by the lord. Okay? This this is the kind of king they want where

22:14

we're gonna give it to them. It's really

22:16

the lord

22:17

who say who sends

22:19

a soul to

22:20

the prophet and

22:22

and it's less

22:22

thundering. Trust to

22:24

his servant, Saul appears

22:26

hesitant and passive. He is a

22:28

follower, not a leader.

22:30

We get this

22:30

from when we get to the story, they

22:33

came to

22:34

the land of Zeph. This is verse five

22:36

and saw said to his

22:38

servant. Who was with him come, let us

22:40

go back. He saw he wants to give up.

22:42

Thus, my father ceased to care about

22:44

the dog. He's and become anxious about us.

22:47

But Heiser, the servant, said to

22:50

him, saw behold. Here's

22:51

a man of god in this city, and here's a

22:54

man who is held an honor.

22:55

All that

22:56

he says comes true. So now

22:58

let us go there. Perhaps he can tell

23:00

us the way he we should go.

23:02

And so I'll

23:02

send his survey, but if we

23:05

go, look, can we bring

23:05

the man? We you know, for the bread and our sacks

23:07

is gone. If there's no present to bring to

23:09

the man of God, what what have we done?

23:12

Or what do we have? The

23:14

Lord

23:14

and the servant answers saw

23:16

again here. I have

23:18

with me a quarter of a shekel of

23:20

silver. And I will give it to the man of God that

23:22

tell us our way. So

23:24

basically, Saul is the one

23:26

who appears hesitant He

23:28

appears unsure of himself. He appears uncertain.

23:30

The servant is the one with all the answers.

23:33

The servant is the one who comes

23:35

up comes across as more of

23:37

a leader. Than Sol does.

23:39

And again, this is intentional. It

23:41

raises objections about Sol's

23:44

ability to lead. He tends to

23:46

impede action rather than move it

23:48

along. Furthermore, the

23:49

story depicts Saul as the one who is

23:52

spiritually insensitive. He

23:54

seems ignorant of Samuel's

23:56

presence. He does

23:57

not take initiative in seeking

23:59

divine guidance. And then

24:01

he views such insight as something that must

24:03

be purchased. K?

24:05

So again, we the whole narrative

24:07

raises questions about Saul's fitness.

24:09

Fourth observation, there's the wording

24:12

of chapter nine fifteen to

24:14

eighteen, especially verse

24:16

sixteen, so

24:16

I'm gonna read those.

24:18

Starting in verse fifteen. Now the day before

24:20

saw came, the Lord

24:22

had revealed

24:22

to Samuel, tomorrow about

24:25

this time I will send you to a man from

24:27

the land of Benjamin,

24:29

and you

24:29

shall appoint him to be prince

24:31

over my people, Israel.

24:33

He shall save my people

24:34

from the hand of the Philistines.

24:36

Where I have seen my people because

24:38

their cry has come to

24:40

me. When Samuel

24:42

saw saw, the Lord told him, here is

24:44

the man of whom I spoke to you.

24:46

He it is who shall restrain

24:49

my people. Then saw,

24:51

approached

24:51

Samuel in the

24:53

gate and said, tell me where is the house

24:55

of the sear? And

24:56

Samuel answered saw, I am

24:59

the sear. Go up before me to the high

25:01

place, or today, 810 shall

25:03

eat with me. In the morning, I will

25:05

let you go and tell you all that is on

25:08

your mind. As for the donkeys that

25:10

were lost three days ago, do not set

25:12

your mind on them, but they have been

25:13

found. And for whom is

25:15

all that is desirable of Israel,

25:18

is

25:18

it not for you all this and all your father's house?

25:21

So I'll answer them

25:22

I not a Benjamin from the least of the

25:24

tribes of Israel,

25:26

you know, maybe

25:27

Saw has some sort of inferiority

25:29

complex. Who

25:31

knows? It is

25:31

not my clan, the 2 of all the

25:33

clans and the tribe of Benjamin.

25:36

Why then have you spoken to me in

25:38

this way? So again,

25:40

he's he's uncertain. There's there's

25:42

no there's

25:42

no assertiveness about

25:44

him. There's no,

25:44

you know, take action, take

25:46

things by by as does

25:48

they're given, there there there's nothing that you would look

25:50

at and say this guy's a board leader.

25:53

So

25:53

the wording here

25:54

is interesting because

25:56

the word translated Prince, nugget,

25:59

and he were in yet in

26:02

the ESV in verse sixteen.

26:04

You shall inherit

26:04

him prince over my people.

26:07

This is not

26:07

the normative word for king.

26:09

The word for king is Malek, which

26:12

appears in

26:13

chapter eight when they asked for king, but they're

26:16

basically they're they're gonna get a prince. They're gonna get

26:18

a nugget

26:19

the

26:20

wording shows. So there's something up

26:22

here already with what's going on

26:24

with the choices of choice

26:26

of saw and

26:27

in god, you know, manipulating the

26:30

circumstances of it. And of

26:31

course Samuel's gonna be following what the

26:33

Lord tells him to

26:35

say,

26:35

chisholm of

26:37

this terminology, the sudden

26:39

appearance of this word, Nageed,

26:41

which is not used in chapter

26:43

eight. And the total absence

26:45

of the word king, which

26:47

is used nine times in chapter

26:50

eight, indicates that the

26:50

Lord is not gonna give his

26:53

people really what they want or

26:55

what they're thinking of. He's

26:57

he's with what they're gonna get is is the

26:59

reality. They're not they're not gonna get what,

27:01

you know, the this

27:02

imaginary person they thought who would lead them

27:04

in the battle and so on and so forth.

27:07

The

27:07

the choice here is not not gonna

27:10

be that. The

27:11

term, you know, this is despite his

27:14

appearance. And really, it's because of his

27:16

appearance. If you if you wanna be honest

27:18

about it, I mean, the the

27:20

the choice of soul is an outward one only

27:22

and has nothing to do with his inner

27:24

characteristics, which are

27:25

gonna become important when you're ruling

27:27

people. The

27:28

term Nageed is used elsewhere of leaders in

27:30

a variety of contexts,

27:32

including tribal

27:33

leaders, military officers, religious

27:36

officials, In palace

27:38

officials, in verses sixteen and

27:40

seventeen, the Lord calls Israel, my

27:43

people four times to something

27:45

else that's going on. Whereas

27:47

in chapter eight, he refers them to

27:49

first to them simply as

27:51

the people. This

27:53

is an additional signal that the

27:55

Lord who

27:55

regards their request as a rejection of

27:58

his kingship is not going to

27:59

reject them. Basically,

28:01

they're they're gonna get what they ask for

28:03

and they're gonna suffer for it, but the Lord's not gonna set

28:05

his people aside. He's

28:07

not gonna go that far with it.

28:10

In nine seventeen, the verb is of interest. The text

28:12

God saying that Saul will, quote, govern

28:15

or

28:15

restrain the word he

28:17

re words, at Saar, my people.

28:20

He does not use

28:20

the verb of rulership for

28:23

kings, malach. So

28:24

the verb to reign over people as a king

28:26

is malach and the noun is malach king.

28:30

This

28:30

terminology does not appear in chapter nine.

28:33

And Chisholm notes this absence of

28:35

vocabulary and writes, quote, its absence

28:38

here is striking, supporting

28:40

the

28:40

idea that the Lord is not intending to give

28:42

the people exactly what they want.

28:44

The robot SAAR means

28:46

restrained, detained, withhold,

28:48

suggesting the appointed leader will hold

28:50

the people in check. In

28:52

our vernacular, basically, he's gonna be a babysitter.

28:55

This is what

28:56

they're getting. Because, you know, frankly,

28:58

this is all solved. It's came

29:00

along. Because he lacks the inner characteristics

29:02

of a king.

29:04

These distinctions

29:05

in the wording, in Prince

29:08

Nagyan versus king or Mela,

29:10

Continuing

29:10

to chapter ten,

29:12

though this depends on what text

29:14

your English Bible translator has

29:16

or and then was following when he

29:18

did his translation. Most

29:21

translations like the ESV in

29:23

chapter ten do not follow

29:24

the mezzuritic texts, the traditional

29:27

Hebrew texts. Instead many

29:28

translations file the text

29:31

underlying the septuagint, which

29:33

aligns with the Dead Sea Scrolls,

29:35

the text of Samuel.

29:37

In, you know, among the Dead Sea

29:39

Scrolls. So

29:40

we're gonna get a textual difference here that

29:42

that, you know, we can read about if we

29:44

compare bible versions. And it's it's

29:47

gonna it's gonna be consistent with this

29:49

absence of the the king terminology.

29:52

Chisholm writes,

29:52

once again, the text should read

29:55

this.

29:55

Has not the lord anointed you as

29:58

ruler, nor guide over his people

29:59

as ruler. You will govern not czar of the

30:02

lord's people. And you will deliver them from

30:04

the hand of their enemies who surround

30:06

them. This will be

30:06

your sign that the Lord has anointed you as

30:09

ruler over his inheritance.

30:11

That's what

30:11

the septuagint has.

30:13

So this is what the text should read.

30:16

The septuagint along with the Dead Sea

30:18

Scrolls aligning with

30:20

each other. Against

30:21

the traditional Hebrew texts, you know, tell us

30:23

very clearly what

30:24

the originals you should have said.

30:27

And again, this wording is very consistent with

30:29

what we get in chapter nine, but

30:31

not consistent

30:31

with chapter eight when they request

30:34

the king. What

30:35

they're gonna get is a Nageed who's gonna lord and over,

30:37

gonna govern the people. Not

30:39

not

30:39

rule them as as a king should.

30:42

Or

30:43

or as a king would rather

30:45

he's gonna rule them in such a way that

30:47

they're, you know, that they're gonna be under his

30:49

thumb. He's gonna restrain them.

30:52

Within this quotation, as

30:55

reconstructed from the Greek end of the Hebrew,

30:57

solace

30:57

Heiser called ruler, again,

30:59

Nageed, not king. And

31:01

the verb govern is not tsar, not rain.

31:04

So we got

31:04

the point there.

31:06

Sixth

31:06

observation, tsar fails his first

31:08

test of obedience.

31:11

Toye

31:11

by written word of the

31:13

Ministry of Samuel. Asol

31:15

receives three signs to validate

31:17

the authenticity of his anointing as

31:20

king. So

31:20

I'm gonna I'm read first Samuel ten, five

31:22

through sixteen here.

31:25

It's

31:25

basically Samuel's

31:26

told what's gonna or Saul's told

31:29

what's gonna gonna be

31:31

happening to him. Samuel takes the flask of

31:33

oil in verse one, he anoints saw

31:36

on his

31:37

head. As

31:38

king and kissed him and then says, okay, here's what's

31:40

gonna happen to you. Has not the

31:42

Lord anointed you to be prince over his people

31:45

Israel? And

31:45

you shall reign over the people of the Lord

31:48

again using this nugget and the outside

31:50

terminology. We go

31:51

down to verse five.

31:53

After that

31:54

after what, you know, you you know,

31:56

you you you the the donkeys

31:58

are gonna

31:59

are discovered. gonna

32:01

meet up with, you know, three men going

32:03

up to God 2 Bethel. We'll meet you there. One

32:05

1 three goats, so they're carrying three

32:07

loads of bread. That

32:08

they're carrying a skin of wine. They

32:10

will

32:11

greet you and give you the two loaves of bread

32:13

after that. You will come to give you eth

32:15

elohim There is

32:16

a garrison of Philistines there. And

32:18

there as soon

32:19

as you come to the city, you will meet a group of

32:21

pop prophets coming down from the high

32:23

place with hearth, timbering, flu,

32:26

and lard before them prophesy.

32:28

Then the

32:28

spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and he will

32:31

prophesy with them.

32:33

And

32:33

be turned into another

32:35

man. Now

32:35

when these signs meet you, do what

32:37

your hand finds you finds

32:40

to do. So when all this stuff happens, Samuel

32:42

tells Saw, that's when

32:44

you need to, you know, spring into action. You

32:46

need to do you know,

32:48

what what your hand, you know, suggests that you

32:51

do. And he's, you know,

32:51

he's given him a series of

32:54

signs. He has

32:55

here, you're gonna meet

32:57

you know,

32:57

with certain men who are gonna have certain

33:00

things, they're gonna give you certain things, and all of

33:02

this comes to pass. He

33:03

runs into, you know,

33:06

these these prophets. You

33:07

will prophecy with them and to be turned

33:09

into another man. And

33:11

again, once all this happens,

33:14

Samuel tells him, Now it's

33:15

time to do

33:17

what your hand finds to do because

33:19

God is with you. And

33:21

then, crucially, then

33:23

after all this, after you do, you

33:25

know, what you're supposed to do in

33:27

sandals is is deliberately vague

33:29

here. Do what your hand finds to

33:31

do for God is with you. We'll

33:33

talk a little bit about why in a second.

33:35

But after

33:36

you do that, then go down

33:38

before me, Samuel says to Gil 2 Gil.

33:40

Behold I

33:41

am coming down to you to offer burn

33:43

offerings and to sacrifice peace

33:46

offerings. Seven days you

33:48

shall wait, until I come to you and show what you should

33:50

do. So you you know, you all

33:52

this is gonna happen to you when it does,

33:55

do what's

33:55

in your hand to do quote unquote for

33:57

God is with you. And then

33:59

after you're

33:59

done with that, go down the gild

34:02

go.

34:02

So when

34:04

Saul Turns to 2, Samuel

34:06

in verse nine, this is chapter ten.

34:08

It says God gave

34:09

him another heart.

34:12

And

34:12

all those signs came to pass that day. So all this

34:14

stuff happens. When they

34:16

came to give you a behold a group of prophets

34:19

met him. And the spirit of god rushed upon him and

34:21

he prophesied among them. And when

34:24

all he knew him

34:26

previously saw how

34:26

he prophesied with the prophets.

34:29

The people said to one

34:30

another, what has come over

34:31

the son

34:32

of flesh? You

34:34

saw also among

34:36

the prophets? And

34:37

a man of the pal a man of the place

34:39

answered who is their father.

34:41

And therefore, it became a prophet who

34:43

saw also among the prophets. When

34:45

he had finished prophesying, he came to

34:47

the high place. So what

34:49

happens here? Basically

34:51

everything that that God through

34:53

Samuel says is gonna happen. This happens to him, but there's a

34:56

problem. He goes up

34:59

to give you then

35:01

where he meets these He somehow changed into

35:03

another man, quote unquote, whatever

35:05

that means. And again, we'll we'll get to

35:07

that in a second.

35:08

what we get to that the second

35:10

And then instead

35:11

of going to Gil Gal 2 Samuel

35:13

instructed him, he

35:15

doesn't do it doesn't do that that.

35:18

When

35:18

he had finished verse thirteen, when he had finished prophesying,

35:20

he came to the high place.

35:22

And Saul's uncle said

35:23

to him, and his to his servant, where

35:25

did you go?

35:28

seek the donkeys 2 when he's when

35:30

he saw that they were not to be found, he went

35:32

to Samuel. And so his

35:34

uncle said,

35:34

please tell me what Samuel said to you.

35:37

doesn't. Saul said to his uncle

35:39

he told us plainly the monk he said

35:41

and found, but about the matter of

35:43

the kingdom of which Seamus had spoken, he

35:45

didn't tell him anything.

35:47

So we have

35:48

we have another we have actually two signs

35:50

here that there's something going on here with

35:52

with the

35:53

solid isn't right.

35:55

He doesn't

35:55

go to 2 Galas instructed.

35:57

And when he's asked by his

35:59

uncle, what Samuel

36:00

had to say, he doesn't

36:02

tell him, he won't tell

36:04

him. And he

36:05

wasn't charged with keeping this a secret. He just doesn't tell him. The

36:07

first two signs are sort of

36:08

signs of God's providence. He'll

36:11

meet two men 2.

36:13

They'll do this

36:13

or that, so on and so forth.

36:16

And then you'll go

36:16

further and and come to the Okabur, and you'll

36:18

meet three men going up to 2 at

36:21

Bethil. They'll meet you

36:23

there. So

36:23

the first couple of these are are signs of

36:26

Providence. And then the third

36:27

sign you will come to give you at Elohim

36:29

where there's a garrison

36:32

of Philistines. That's

36:32

what we're told about the place. Now here here is where

36:35

where commentators tend to think

36:36

that the 2 goes goes astray.

36:42

Basically, Saul is gonna wind up in his

36:44

own home territory of Giberia.

36:46

This

36:46

is where he's from.

36:47

People

36:49

know these prophets. And

36:50

somehow after me in the prophet and she's gonna be a different person

36:54

ostensibly he's gonna be able

36:54

to lead the people. He's gonna be transformed.

36:57

He's gonna be enabled.

36:59

And the spirit of

37:00

God to do the job.

37:02

This is very

37:03

consistent with with what the spirit of God does

37:05

in the period of the of the book

37:07

of judges, which is you know,

37:09

the period right before this, right before Sam was born. Samu

37:11

was the last judge. Actually, his

37:13

sons are, they're

37:14

corrupt, and he's the last good

37:17

one. So things

37:18

are are sort of happening as

37:21

according to pattern in the

37:23

book of judges. When the

37:25

spirit of God shows up in the book of judges, he,

37:27

the spirit of God comes upon

37:30

people. It's not it's

37:31

not a permanent indwelling like it is

37:33

in the

37:33

new testament. It's a

37:36

temporary enablement to do a

37:38

specific task or job.

37:40

And that's

37:40

what happens to saw here.

37:42

Spirit of

37:43

God comes upon him when he meets these prophets. He prophesies

37:46

again. It's just gonna be proof that

37:47

the Spirit

37:48

of God is now upon him

37:51

and he should be

37:52

ready for the job. He should be ready for the

37:54

task. He has divine

37:56

enablement, but what happens? E

37:59

disobeys. It's a lot

38:02

like Samson. If we

38:03

wanna continue

38:05

with the the illustration about about Samson

38:08

being parallel to Saul.

38:10

Samson had the spirit of

38:11

God come upon him too. 2,

38:14

Samson always obedient to the Lord, you

38:16

know,

38:17

hardly ever. Samson's out there, you

38:19

know, pursuing

38:22

women you know,

38:22

doing doing what's best in his own eyes, but but

38:24

he is empowered. And as

38:26

long as he doesn't

38:26

cut his hair so and so forth, we

38:29

know all the story. The

38:31

spirit of God is gonna enable him to be a to deliver the people 2

38:33

the Philistines. This is his job. This

38:35

is his only task.

38:38

Deliver

38:38

Israel from the Philistines. He's going to be able to do

38:40

that once empowered by God

38:42

to do so and

38:44

so

38:45

ostensibly, so Samuel. Or

38:47

excuse me, so a saw. But

38:49

saw this abate,

38:50

he does not go down to Gill 2.

38:52

Now, on Gill

38:53

Gail, there are there are three Gill

38:56

Gail's. We Let me read a

38:58

little bit to you here. This

38:58

is from Harper's Bible dictionary. You'll go

39:00

between Jericho and Jordan. Israelites

39:04

first encampment after crossing

39:06

the Jordan, which became

39:08

Joshua's base of operation. So

39:10

this is the main Gil Gal.

39:12

Of the several that are gonna be mentioned in Scripture. This

39:14

is the one between Jericho

39:16

and Jordan where the Israelites encamped

39:18

before going 2 for the conquest.

39:20

2

39:22

kilo gal is probably modern Kerbet Elmaik fear.

39:26

About one and a

39:27

quarter miles from the ancient Jericho

39:29

were possibly Kerbet and

39:31

the la by two

39:33

miles southeast of Jericho.

39:35

In the tribal

39:36

period in the early monarchy, thirteenth

39:39

through eleventh centuries BC,

39:41

became

39:41

an important political religious and

39:44

military center, especially for the tribe

39:46

of Benjamin. And this is

39:48

this is Saul's

39:50

home turf. It was one of

39:52

the places visited by Samuel on his yearly circuit verse sixteen.

39:54

A number of the

39:56

early traditions

39:57

about Saul are

39:59

set there. It was

40:01

a rallying point in Saul's against the Philistines

40:03

in first time in thirteen anyway. This

40:05

is where it's gonna

40:08

be. It is

40:09

here that he was affirmed by the people as king verse eleven. We're gonna

40:11

read that next time. And it

40:13

was here also that

40:15

the kingship was taken

40:17

from him in firstiah thirteen,

40:19

and we'll

40:20

get to that in the in the future passage, but

40:22

he's gonna be affirmed

40:23

as king here and he's gonna lose

40:25

the kingship there. Again,

40:27

he loses the kingship for presuming

40:29

on saying those priestly prerogatives. Again, we

40:31

know this from we'll get to that part of

40:33

the story.

40:34

This

40:36

skilled gal eventually

40:36

is denounced by the eighth century prophets as the

40:39

site of a national national security

40:41

on a royal

40:42

patronage with a corrupt sacrificial

40:46

cult. It's gonna turn into a crop cult

40:48

center. And this is the Gil Gal that

40:49

we're dealing with here that in

40:51

in in in Samu's Day, in Saul's

40:54

Day, it's an important

40:56

place of of political,

40:58

you know, significance. And

41:01

specifically, scholars believe that since

41:03

this was the place where Joshua launched his campaign

41:05

of conquest, years and

41:07

years earlier,

41:08

years and years earlier that

41:10

this is why Samuel once saw to go there.

41:12

You know, once he once

41:14

he's met by the prophets, once he's empowered

41:16

by the spirit of the Lord, he's

41:19

opposed to go to 810 again, to to

41:21

be the next Joshua to to

41:23

to do like Moses and Joshua

41:25

did. Do you know? To obey the

41:27

Lord and get his his fighting instructions there or his next set

41:29

of instructions from the Lord and

41:32

Gil Gal. This

41:32

is this is what Joshua did.

41:36

You know,

41:36

during, you know, to to empower the conquest, you

41:39

know, you you follow what

41:40

the Lord wanted to do.

41:43

This is not what Samuel, you know, what

41:45

what what Saul does. It's not what Samuel

41:47

sees happen. In fact, this

41:49

is gonna be

41:52

his downfall. Because

41:52

he he takes it upon himself to act as Samuel instead of waiting

41:55

for him to kill him now.

41:57

So this is where

41:59

this is where where

42:00

things are gonna start to go wrong, for saw, almost right after the

42:03

right after he's made

42:04

right after he's made king, he loses

42:06

a kingship. I mean, it doesn't take much

42:08

time.

42:10

So,

42:10

commentators

42:11

are also though at odds to explain the

42:14

disobedience. It

42:16

seems

42:16

clear enough seems clear enough

42:18

why he should have gone there

42:20

again to follow in the footsteps

42:22

of Joshua. But but

42:24

why doesn't he do it? Is saw

42:27

lacking confidence. Is he just spiritually dull?

42:28

You know, does he

42:30

wanna worship yahweh his own way at

42:34

Givya? Bypassing Saul's directive. Alright?

42:36

Or excuse me.

42:37

Samuel's directive about meeting in

42:39

the Gill Gillow.

42:41

You know, why why

42:42

does he do what he does? It's kind of

42:44

a mystery. Whatever the precise

42:47

reasoning, his failure, Here, reveals it and begins a pattern

42:49

of self demise. And it

42:52

may be that he's just lacking

42:54

confidence. It it may just be that

42:56

he's inept. Whatever

42:58

it

42:58

is, he he lacks internally what what

43:00

is needed to be be the

43:02

real leader, especially

43:03

to be a

43:06

spiritual leader. He lacks the character to do so.

43:08

We get some idea

43:09

why Samuel wanted him to go to

43:11

Gil Gal from first Saturday at

43:14

eleven fourteen. You read

43:15

that. Samuel said to the people come,

43:16

let us go to Gil Gal

43:18

and there renew the kingdom.

43:22

So this is

43:23

quite in line with the idea that

43:25

we're gonna go back to the

43:27

place where Joshua

43:29

launched the conquest.

43:32

Essentially, this

43:32

is where the Kingdom of Israel gets launched against the

43:35

the opposing peoples of

43:37

of of Canon. And

43:39

so Samuel says, we're gonna go back there.

43:41

We're gonna relaunch. We're gonna

43:44

relaunch the conquest because in the book

43:46

of judges, the

43:47

conquest is is lost. They don't they

43:49

don't fulfill it. They don't complete the

43:52

conquest. And so in

43:54

Samuel's mind, We're gonna

43:55

go back to Gil to everybody. We're going

43:57

back to Gil Gal where

43:59

the conquest

43:59

was launched.

44:02

And start

44:02

over again, and the Lord's gonna be with

44:04

us. You know? And and

44:06

the Lord

44:06

that this is the way it looked. The Lord

44:08

had empowered

44:10

saw.

44:10

though The

44:12

Lord had come upon Saul just like he had come upon all the other

44:14

judges. You know, he he should be ready

44:16

for the task, but what does he do? He

44:18

blows it from the

44:19

very beginning.

44:21

He doesn't go to Gilliland. And

44:24

again,

44:24

the reason may be

44:26

as simple as his own ineptitude or

44:29

his own you know, uncertainly. And then maybe he

44:31

just thought this is the better way

44:33

to do things. But either

44:35

way, he's not taking spiritual leadership. He's not listening

44:37

to the prophet. This is what he's supposed

44:40

to do. He he's

44:42

not. Joshua, listen

44:44

to Moses.

44:44

2

44:47

listen

44:47

to God. Okay? 2 is supposed to

44:49

listen to Samuel

44:50

because Samuel

44:52

is the mouthpiece for God here.

44:56

But this is not what Saul does. This is not what

44:58

Saul

44:58

does. And Saul does

45:00

his own thing and and get

45:02

it, it leads to his demise.

45:06

The fact that later, you know, when he when he gets

45:08

to missba, when when Sal finally,

45:10

you know, gets everybody to missba.

45:13

The public acknowledgment

45:14

of his selection of the king happens

45:16

there and thus his

45:18

status

45:19

status. But

45:20

when when he's

45:21

at this, but what does Saul

45:23

do? He

45:24

hides. It shows he's

45:26

not the kind of king Israel needs and

45:28

y'all he wants. When Saul status says the

45:30

new kingdom is fine the the new

45:33

king is finally revealed publicly.

45:35

He behaves

45:36

cowardly. He hides himself.

45:38

His

45:39

refusal to share what

45:41

had happened to him, and

45:43

his anointing with his uncle

45:45

is also suspect. He had

45:46

not been charged with keeping it secret. Why doesn't he want his

45:49

uncle to know of his anointing? He's

45:51

all embarrassed

45:52

by

45:54

it. It's obvious he

45:54

has no confidence in fulfilling it. Does

45:57

maybe he thinks he's gonna hero,

45:59

that's impossible because you're

46:02

you're sore. You know,

46:03

you can't be king look at you. You know, you

46:05

look at what kind of man you

46:07

are as opposed

46:08

to how you look.

46:10

You know,

46:10

maybe that's in the back of of

46:12

Saul's mind. I mean, who knows, but he doesn't go. And

46:14

he he acts like

46:15

a coward when when he's publicly revealed

46:17

us to be as he's gonna be

46:19

the first king.

46:21

You know,

46:22

what what's going

46:23

on here? Again, he has he has

46:25

specific problems that are 2

46:27

inhibit his kingship. What

46:29

about the prophesying lastly in in first Samuel ten, ten

46:31

new eleven? What does it mean that saw and

46:33

received a new heart?

46:36

But my judgment on on this is that it means just would

46:38

have mentioned the period of the book of judges. It

46:41

means that that

46:42

that that happens

46:44

here when the spirit of God

46:46

comes upon prayer, it

46:48

enables him for the task.

46:51

It's

46:51

what he needs to do the task

46:53

2 be the ruler of

46:55

God's people, but but

46:57

still he blows

46:58

it. He doesn't go

46:59

to 2 Gals as

47:02

instructed. You know, had he gone to Gill Gals, he

47:04

would have gotten Sanders blasting so

47:06

and so forth, but

47:08

he Disabase what the prophet says, and, of course, the

47:10

prophet is gonna notice

47:12

this. So whatever the prophet saying in Bob

47:14

that didn't transform Solomon being

47:16

the kind of king

47:18

words, he

47:18

didn't didn't transform him into being a

47:20

spiritual leader that God

47:22

wanted for

47:22

a king. While it

47:24

is clear the

47:25

spirit and power is solved for

47:27

service, specific acts of service. This is

47:30

how the 2 of God worked in

47:31

the book of judges. You were empowered

47:33

to

47:33

do a

47:36

specific task. Just so

47:36

happens that Saul's task is to is

47:38

to be this ruler over the

47:40

people now. But again,

47:41

he blows it because he

47:44

doesn't obey. So

47:45

whatever whatever the prophesying involved,

47:47

it doesn't transform 2

47:49

into into a new kind of person

47:52

with different character. It would have

47:53

transformed him into being

47:56

a military leader because that's

47:58

what his

48:00

job was. To

48:00

go in and out before the people, you know, just like for it

48:02

for Samuel, you know, earlier for

48:04

Samuel,

48:05

seven, for Samuel

48:08

God would have done that for Samuel or for

48:10

Saul, excuse me. He would have

48:12

empowered him. And and Saul

48:14

had the

48:16

proof. He had

48:16

these three things that happened to him in 2, as

48:18

proof that God would

48:20

be with him, but he doesn't go to

48:22

Gill Gail. 2 like

48:24

he doesn't accept the call. And that

48:26

that is just

48:27

gonna spell doomed him. He's gonna lose

48:29

the calling pretty rapidly.

48:31

And again, the the parallel to Samson is pretty

48:34

clear where Samson

48:35

is enabled by the spirit

48:37

of God to do

48:39

what he does. And he uses that power on a number

48:41

of occasions. And

48:43

spiritually speaking,

48:44

he is just adept.

48:46

He

48:47

is not spiritual leader. He's not with

48:49

with the kind of person that ought

48:51

to be

48:51

king.

48:52

2? What God

48:54

wants as a king is is

48:56

is a spiritual leader, and this is not what Sol is. wasn't what

48:59

Samsung was. And Sol is

49:01

going to fail. But to wrap all this

49:03

up, it seems

49:03

that Sol

49:06

and

49:06

one set of ideas in his head about serving Yahweh as

49:09

king, when Samuel

49:10

had

49:11

another. Samuel

49:13

was God's prophet, he was

49:15

the Moses of a new team where Saul was supposed to

49:17

be the military

49:17

deluger. That's what the

49:20

people

49:21

asked for. Because, you

49:23

know, God's gonna give them a military deliverer, but this guy

49:25

has to obey

49:26

the 2, to

49:29

be blessed. And

49:31

he just doesn't do it. That's again, the

49:33

people asked for somebody to lead them in battle.

49:35

That's what they get. they

49:37

get You know, God would have empowered him to

49:39

do so because we know this because the spirit of God had

49:41

come upon him, but the

49:44

prerequisite

49:44

the

49:45

is obedience.

49:47

It's doing what

49:48

you're supposed to be doing,

49:50

and

49:50

Saul just doesn't do it.

49:52

Team shift

49:52

breaks down early with Saul's

49:55

disobedience to Samuel. Sol

49:56

doesn't seem to know his place in the spiritual pecking order.

49:59

And though perhaps while intention

50:00

is out of line

50:02

with

50:03

what God wanted,

50:05

No. He he

50:05

may have been well intention in the

50:08

beginning thinking, well, this is what kings do.

50:10

This is how I'm gonna act. Rather than

50:12

obeying sin or

50:14

the prophet, and he just falls out of favor with

50:16

God. So next time we're gonna look and see

50:18

what what Saul actually does. He

50:20

doesn't go to Gill Golly. He does

50:22

something else. He

50:24

goes and he sedues the ammonites. And

50:26

this is gonna be

50:27

part of being showing his downfall.

50:29

So we're gonna

50:32

talk about solve versus the ammonites

50:34

next time, and also

50:36

an odd theme. This is gonna sound very

50:38

odd, but we're gonna go

50:40

through it. The serpent

50:42

in Samuel. Believe

50:44

it or not, I'll just telegraph it this

50:46

way. There

50:47

is vocabulary from Genesis

50:49

three about the Nikesh a serpent

50:51

that gets reused in first

50:52

Samuel eleven and several places in

50:54

first Samuel to describe

50:57

an adversarial relationship.

51:00

You know,

51:00

with God. And so some of that language is gonna come up here

51:02

and we'll jump into it for the first time

51:04

in first Sam in

51:06

for same and eleven

51:08

eleven. Alright, Mike. Looking forward to that,

51:09

don't spoil it for us. I wanna know how it

51:11

ends next time. Don't, so don't give

51:13

away the ending.

51:14

No. We won't. Okay. It's kinda

51:17

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51:19

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