David asks why Saul would come against him, a dead dog or flea: This world comes against Christianity, a dead dog or flea to them.

1 Samuel 24:14-15

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 “After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?” 1 Samuel 24:14 

David asked king Saul why he was wasting his time persecuting him when he was nothing more than a dead dog or a flea in the presence of Saul’s persistence to kill him. David was a dead dog in his willingness to do harm to Saul and was just a flea ready to be smashed by Saul. Quite obviously, Saul interpreted David to be a much larger threat to him and far from being a dead dog or flea.

Today, the followers of Jesus Christ are nothing more than a dead dog or a flea to the governing authority within the “democratic” society of the beast. We are dead as an attack dog and as vulnerable as a flea to be smashed by the masses in every city around the world. Even then, quite obviously, the society of this world sees Christianity as a much larger threat to their authority than a dead dog or a flea.

Why is Christianity considered a threat to the powerful global government? Because there is a battle over the soul of a person. The followers of Jesus Christ dedicate their body to be the home of the Holy Spirit and we refuse to give up the territory of our thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors to the thing which has power over physiology, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19 The thing which controls what a person thinks, does, and speaks wants to dominate the temple of God, our body, “…it opposes and exalts itself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that it sits as God in the temple of God, showing itself that it is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4

The thing which wants to govern over our body enables the image of the beast to live and speak through a person by forming thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and speech. As it lives and speaks through people, they are conformed to their place in life by what they say and do. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

Jesus Christ came to this world and taught about the Kingdom of God, the remission of sin, living peaceably with all people, and to respect the governing authorities. He teaches us that our reward is eternal life in the new heaven and new earth and nothing in this world is worth trading the soul for. In view of the worldly power of the Roman government and Jewish authorities, Jesus was nothing more than a dead dog and a little flea as far as His threat to them. Even so, they saw Jesus Christ as being an enormous threat to their authority, and when they came to arrest Him, His response was like Davids’s to Saul, “Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?” As quoted below,

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to take Me? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me. But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

Matthew 26:55-56

“Therefore let the Lord be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.” 1 Samuel 24:15 Jesus Christ is the judge between those who deny Him and those who live for Him. Jesus pleads our case at the throne of God and through Him we are given eternal life. Those who deny God and reject Jesus are given eternal torment in Hell. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

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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