David and his people enter residency among the haters of the Israelites: Christianity has entered residency within an anti-Christian world.

1 Samuel 27:2

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“Then David arose and went over with the six hundred men who were with him to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.” 1 Samuel 27:2 

David and his men were forced into the land of the Philistines, haters of the Israelites, where they would become “citizens” under the rule of Achish. Little did Achish know that God had already anointed David as the king of Israel. Imagine, the king of Israel living in the midst of those who pounced on the Israelites at every turn.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we live with Him through the Holy Spirit while we are citizens living under the governing authorities of the beast. They are haters of Christianity. That is what it means when David and his men went to king Achish, they were living under the authority of Achish, a hater of the Israelites. Today, the One who will come back as the King of kings and Lord of lords is living among this anti-Christian world through the Holy Spirit. While in this world as Christians, the Holy Spirit says to us, “Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.” 1 Peter 2:17

As Christians, we honor even those who live by the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them. By what they say and do, they are groomed to the mark of the beast, conforming them to their place in life. With that, we love fellow Believers and all of Christianity and do not join the masses of people who come against the Spirit of Christ. On top of that, we fear God and always express our belief in Him, acknowledge our need for His Son Jesus Christ, and embrace the Holy Spirit. And we honor the governing authority so that we do not lift a hand against those over us.

Jesus Christ intends for us to live in this anti-Christian world, but our reward for faithfulness to Him is eternal life in the new heaven and earth, the New Jerusalem. Jesus even prayed that we are not taken out of this world, as quoted below,

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

.John 17:14-19

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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