Saul superficially acknowledges David as future king: The ruler of this world knows Jesus Christ is Lord of lords

1 Samuel 24:19-21.

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“‘For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him get away safely? Therefore may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.” 1 Samuel 24:19 

Those are the words spoken by Saul to David after David let him get away with his life. The words sound appreciative, but Saul had nothing in his heart but murderous intent towards David. Apparently, Saul was being very blasphemous in telling David that his reward for being merciful was in the Lord’s hands, definitely not his.

Today’s society has the same attitude towards Christianity as Saul towards David. They leave the fate of the followers of Jesus Christ in the Lord’s hands as they steadily march forward in extinguishing the Gospel of Christ. They will express positive words towards us for bringing goodness towards them, but they detest the idea that we acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. In fact, they make the life of a Christian very difficult mentally, emotionally, and physically to prove that our help does not come from God, but from them. They are blasphemous, discard the need for Jesus Christ, and trample on the Holy Spirit.

“And now I know indeed that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.” 1 Samuel 24:20 

The reason Saul was pursuing David was because of his jealousy of David’s popularity among the masses of the people. The fear that David would be king was at the root of Saul’s murderous intent towards David.

Today, those who govern and live by the thing which forms what they think, do, feel, and speak know that Jesus Christ is the one true King. They are allowing the image of the beast to live and speak through them to keep the image of Christ from being king of the soul. That is why the thing which forms thoughts, behaviors, and speech wants Jesus Christ, the Gospel of Christ, and all of Christianity gone from this world. It wants to dominate the person by sitting itself up as God in the temple of God, our body. However, Jesus Christ has already won the victory over sin and death and has made us the temple of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord is something demons can do, as quoted below,

You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!

Now in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

James 2:19, Luke 4:33-34, Matthew 7:21-23

 “Therefore swear now to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s house.” 1 Samuel 24:21 

Saul wanted David to promise that Saul’s descendants would be guaranteed safety in this life once David became king. In a similar way, Satan wants his descendants to live on this earth without the fear of being destroyed from off the face of the earth. Today, Jesus Christ is King of kings because He has won the victory over sin and death when He died on the Cross to atone for sin and rose from the grave three days later. Jesus Christ has the power and authority to destroy sinners even before the day of judgment comes in the life beyond the grave, “Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?” Mtthew 26:53

Jesus Christ never ever holds the sin of one person against the next generations. Each person is responsible for living for God through Jesus Christ, regardless of who our parents or relatives are.

 “So David swore to Saul. And Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.” 1 Samuel 24:22 

David promised that Saul’s descendants would not suffer death by his hands, and David and his men returned to the stronghold. Jesus Christ has ascended into the stronghold of the Paradise of God and as His followers we abide in the stronghold of His Spirit. On this earth, Jesus promises that sinners will not be slaughtered in His name. In fact, by His grace and mercy (longsuffering) He patiently waits for sinners to come to Him for the remission of sin and eternal life,

Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

2 Peter 3:14-16

Unfortunately for all of Saul’s sons, and Saul himself, they were all killed by the Philistines in battle, as written about in 1 Samuel 31. Sinners are fighting a worldly battle to bring in the global “democratic” society of the beast, but they reject the Kingdom of Heaven in life beyond the grave. There is a tragic end to the global government and a tragic end for individuals in the life to come. They depend on the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak for their salvation. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them as they reject God, Jesus, and the holy Spirit. By what they say and do. they are conformed to their place in life, their mark in life, as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

God has promised that through Jesus Christ there is always time to come to Him during life on this earth. That is what His longsuffering, patience, mercy, and grace is all about, “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