1 Samuel 27:3-4
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“So David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s widow.” 1 Samuel 27:3
David led all of his people and their families into the land of the Philistines to live among them. They were in hostile territory because the Philistines despised the Israelites and came against them at every turn. At this time, David had Nabal’s wife (Abigail), and Nabal was the sheepshearer who was mean spirited against showing any kindness at all towards David and his people. However, Nabal’s wife did help David a lot, and Nabal later died after Abigail told him that she had helped David. After Nabal’s death, David proposed to Abigail and made her his wife. The event of Nabal the sheepshearer, and his wife Abigail, is written about in 1 Samuel 25.
The masses of the anti-Christian “democratic” society are in every city around the world, and they habitually shear the Spirit of Christ. They are the “Nabal” of this world and they are dead to God and His Son Jesus Christ. They despise Christianity and refuse to give any nourishment at all to the Holy Spirit within people. They harden the human spirit to build a wall against the Spirit of Christ. By doing that, they intend to make people receptive to the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak. It cannot exist in the presence of the Spirit of Chrit. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people as the image of Christ is sheared like wool is sheared from a sheep. Those who live by it 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.
Today, Jesus Christ leads all of His people and the entire Christian family through this hostile anti-Christian world. However, there is not one “Nabal” among us who are hostile to feeding the Spirit of Christ. We have the “wife” of “Nabal” (Abigail) with us meaning we do all we can to feed into the Holy Spirit within one another. We feed and nourish belief in God, and we feed and nourish what Jesus Christ did for us on the Cross. In this world of hostility to the Gospel of Christ, Jesus speaks these words to us,
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Tend My sheep.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”
And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep. Most assuredly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish.”
John 21:5-22
“And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath; so he sought him no more.” 1 Samuel 27:4
When Saul heard that David was living among the Philistines, he was elated to have David away from the population of Israelites. Afterall, the anointed king of Israel couldn’t be king over the Israelites if he left the people he was anointed to rule over. Not only was David away from the Israelites, but he was among a nation of people who despised the Israelites and attacked them routinely. Saul quit pursuing David because Saul thought there is no way that David will ever be the king of Israel now.
Today, the governing authorities within every city around the world are elated when Christianity is in the midst of an anti-Christian world. Those who live by the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak dominates every city around the world. They are elated to have the Gospel of Christ entrapped within an anti-Christian global culture. Afterall, they figure Jesus Christ cannot be King of kings and Lord of lords when Christianity is surrounded by so much hostility and malice. “These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.” Revelation 17:14
Jesus has a word for us as we live in this hostile “city” called earth,
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 5:9-12
“….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
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