Saul is near the sheepfold seeking to kill David: Those of this world are near the followers of Christ seeking to extinguish Christianity.

1 Samuel 24:1-2

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
Click for a description of the image of the beast.

“Now it happened, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, “Take note! David is in the Wilderness of En Gedi.” 1 Samuel 24:1 

Saul chased down the Philistines because they were carrying out an armed rebellion against his territories. After the military aggression was put down, Saul’s attention returned to chasing down David to kill him.

Today, the global government of the beast places first priority in putting down violence around the world. Even the aggression of Israel causes them to be labeled a hostile country to the peace and stability of the world. Soon, the “police action” of the global government will turn against Christianity. Already, those who hold to the teachings of the Bible are considered to be holding “extremist” views by United States government representatives. The “right wing” is being called “fascists” and “dangerous extremists”. Even the masses in the churches of today are a scourge to those who hold to the Gospel of Christ.

But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues. You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

“Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 10:17-23

“Then Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the Rocks of the Wild Goats.” 1 Samuel 24:2 

Those who live by the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak are the masses who dominate cities around the world. They habitually come against God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the whole of Christianity. While Jesus Christ refers to us as His sheep, they refer to us as “wild goats” because we do not conform to their “democratic” society. By welcoming the thing which forms what they think, feel, and do, they allow the image of the beast to live and speak through them. They are hostile to the non-conformity of “wild goats.” In contrast, followers of the Lord Jesus allow the image of Christ to live and speak through us by the Holy Spirit.

Those who let the image of the beast live and speak through them, by the thing which forms what they think and feel, are being conformed to their place in life by what they do and say. They despise Christianity. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

 “So he came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to attend to his needs. (David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave.) 1 Samuel 24:3 Saul came to a sheepfold and went into a cave close to it for attending to “personal needs”. David and his men were in that same cave, hidden in the recesses.

Today, wherever the followers of Christ would be expected to gather, there will also be those who seek to extinguish Jesus Christ and Christianity in its entirety. They are in the caves of the sheepfolds rubbing shoulders with Christians. Not only do they dominate the churches with their overwhelming numbers, but they are in the bathrooms with us, eating with us, sleeping next to us, shopping around us, in the apartments next to ours, and they are in every niche and cave where Christians would be. The verse below is what Jesus Christ says about that,

Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.

So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

Matthew 13:24-30

, “….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11