David shows Saul a piece cut from Saul’s robe: Jesus Christ reveals the mercy of God to a hostile but vulnerable world.

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“Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed. Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it.” 1 Samuel 24:11’” 1 Samuel 24:10-11

Saul was hunting down David to put him to death. During the pursuit, Saul stepped inside a cave to do his “personal business” (bathroom stuff, sleeping, etc.). He didn’t know it, but David and his people were hiding in the recesses of the cave. Saul was an easy prey. Although David’s men suggested the killing of Saul, David spared Saul’s life. However, David did cut a piece of Saul’s robe off and took it with him. Afterwards, David says what is said in the verse above, showing Saul the piece of his robe revealing to Saul how lucky he is to be alive. His throat could have been cut instead of his robe. David repeatedly refused to bring harm to king Saul, even though Saul intended to kill him.

In a sense, the prophecy of the Holy Bible is a piece of the robe of this world’s government. It has been held up for the world to see so that the patience and compassion of God can be seen. Every step of the agenda of the global government is revealed in the Bible, revealing the all-knowing, all-powerful, and ever-present reality of God. He could easily do what He wants to this world, and He has by sending His Son Jesus Christ so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus Christ could easily call the Angels from Heaven to prevent the killing of His presence in this world today, but He does not want His followers to engage in aggressive rebellion and violence while on this earth. While we wait for His return, prophecy is being fulfilled and we hope that others would see and come to Him. The prophecy of global warming is being fulfilled, Revelation 16:8-9. The prophecy of the global government of the beast is being fulfilled, Daniel 8 and also Revelation 17. The prophecy of the image and mark of the beast is being fulfilled, Revelation 13.

Today, there is a thing present in this world which forms what people think, feel, do, and speak as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them. As it lives and speaks through them, they deny God, reject Jesus Christ, and blasphemes the Holy Spirit. By what they say and do, they are conformed to their place in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast. We are to turn away from their hostility and respond with peace,

 But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”

Matthew 26:52-54

Jesus Christ has no hostile intentions towards the governing authority of this world, and as His followers we mustn’t either. He didn’t come to destroy lives but to save lives. Our job is to share the Gospel of Christ and to reveal the piece of robe cut out from the robe of the “democratic” society of the beast. Maybe they will see the power of God and their vulnerability and acknowledge their need to live for the Lord Jesus.

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“….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, 3:1