Achish required David to plunder the Israelites, David didn’t: This world expects us to plunder Christianity.

1 Samuel 27:8-10

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 “And David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. For those nations were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as you go to Shur, even as far as the land of Egypt.” 1 Samuel 27:8

David was required to make raids and to give whatever was looted to king Achish, of the Philistines, who despised the Israelites. Although David was expected to raid the Israelites, instead he raided people who were not part of Israel at all. Likewise, when Jesus Christ came, he raided and looted the ancient and corrupt traditions of the Pharisees, and all their incorrect teachings from the Bible. The Pharisees expected Jesus to raid and plunder their enemies, but instead He brought mercy and grace to give life to Christianity. Today, we follow the example of the Lord Jesus and avoid doing any harm to belief in God, we avoid doing anything against acknowledging the need for Jesus Christ, and we avoid trampling on the Holy Spirit. We do not hinder the work Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

“Whenever David attacked the land, he left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achish.” 1 Samuel 27:9

When Jesus attacked the Pharisees by preaching the truth, their unbelief caused them to be plundered of everything. The sheep of their congregation was taken away, their ability to serve God through the letter of the law of the Old Testament was taken away, their misguiding work in the name of God was taken away, and they had nothing to help their ancient culture to endure. Even the outward appearance of their fancy apparel, eloquent robes etc. no longer meant anything. There was not a man nor woman left alive within the ancient Jewish culture, meaning that culture was and is dead to Christ. Jesus is the only way, the only truth, and the only life, and no one enters into the Kingdom of God except through the Lord Jesus. Even then, Jesus frequently sent those He healed to show temple leaders (such as the Pharisees) and to have the healed person pay them tribute. One example is quoted below,

Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” 

“See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.

Mark 1:41-44

“Then Achish would say, “Where have you made a raid today?” And David would say, “Against the southern area of Judah, or against the southern area of the Jerahmeelites, or against the southern area of the Kenites.” 1 Samuel 27:10

The reason Achish wanted to know where David made his raids is because he wanted David to raid the Israelites. David told Achish that he plundered the Kenites, who were known for showing kindness to the Israelites. David also said he plundered the Jerahmeelites, who were like family to the Israelites. And David added that he plundered the Israelites as well in Judah. When Jesus Christ came to this earth, He made it clear that He came for the lost sheep of Israel. For the Pharisees to hear some of the things He said, it would lead them to believe that He was one of them after all. As quoted below, at first it appears Jesus is plundering the faith of the Canaanite non-Jewish woman, but in reality, Jesus didn’t lift a finger against life being breathed into Christianity,

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

Matthew 15:23-28

Today, those who live and govern by the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak have expectations of those within the family of their “democratic” society. They expect everyone to plunder Christianity by denying the existence of God, discarding the work Jesus Christ did for us on the Cross, and trampling on the Holy Spirit. They expect the image of the beast to live and speak through their people by welcoming the thing which forms their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and words. By what they say and do, they come against Christianity as they are conformed to their place in life. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

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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