David.(David
in archaeology), more than any
other physical human.(and
King
Hezekiah was close).being
in the Old
Testament comprehended
the mercy,
forgiveness
and application of his Creator's gift of righteousness
to him and the fact that when enemies are come against you, it is the Creator
who is behind it:.2Samuel
16:11,12. David was a man hot for God.
David lived.B.C.E.
1085 to 1015.
When you see the phrase
'house of David', it refers to those now living who were of David's lineage,
a man no one ever forgot.
When you see the phrase 'key
to the house of David', it refers to Revelation
3:7.
When you see the phrase
'throne of David', it refers to David being king, a forerunner
of the greater king, Christ, having come out of the lineage of David.(Matthew
1:6-16; Acts 2:30),
who would also sit on a throne over all the Earth:.Matthew
25:31 "When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy
angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory." 2Thessalonians
1:10 "When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired
in all them that believe..."
Isaiah
2:17 "And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness
of men shall be made low and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day."
Luke
1:32 "He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest
and God shall give unto him the throne of his father David."
Ancient David was a good
king:.2Samuel
8:15 "And David reigned over all Israel and David executed judgment
and justice unto all his people.".David's
son Solomon picked up on his dad's wisdom in judging:.1Kings
3:16-28.
David had a great reputation
among all that knew of him:.2Samuel
7:8,9 "...I took thee from the sheepcote.(a
pen
for sheep), from following the sheep,
to be ruler over my people...I was with thee whithersoever you went and
have cut off all your enemies out of your sight and have made you a great
name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the Earth."
2Samuel
8:15 "And David reigned
over all Israel and David executed judgment
and justice
unto all his people."
David became hot for spiritual
things:.Jeremiah
29:13. He meditated much. Get
a free Bible
program and search for the word meditation. David's words on meditation
are in the listings of the Psalms that will come up in your search.
And he did some really bad
stuff. After the absolutely horrible
things David did, he comes to an unusual feelings of God's depth of
love for him. No wonder he was hot for God!
Psalms
42:1,2 "My soul thirsts for the living God's appearance.(or,
original can mean, 'God's face'; David was very interested in knowing all
about this Great Infinite Being, is what the scripture means)?"
Creator chose David for a
specific
purpose back then:.Psalms
78:70-72 "He chose David also his servant and took him from the sheepfolds,
from following the ewes.(full
grown female sheep).great
with young he brought him to feed Jacob
his people and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the
integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands."
The Creator had David anointed
to be king:.1Samuel
16:1-13.
The Creator made a covenant,
an agreement with David:.2Samuel
7:16.
David.(and
even Darwin later).was
very forgiving and respectful of others.
Vladimir Putin, President
of Russia is very respectful
of others.
Saul was always out to get
David. It's what jealousy will
do to an individual.
King
Saul was afraid.(1Samuel
18:12).of
David and had tried to kill.(1Samuel
18:10,11).David
before and was pursuing him again:.1Samuel
26:9,23 "And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not, for who can stretch
forth his hand against the Lord's
anointed and be guiltless?.....for the Lord delivered you into my hand
today, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's anointed.".David
had ample opportunity
to kill Saul, but he respected
him and was kind
to him:.1Samuel
24:1-21.
David had great respect
for the king and the king's son, so much so that he would not lift a finger
against them, even though the king was out to get David.(king
Saul's son, Jonathan,
was a close friend of David). David
was not an avenger.
He knew the Creator takes
care of these things.(Romans
12:19), lesson being, if someone
wrongs you and you did nothing to cause it, God will take care of it. David
even had one of his men kill the individual who killed the wounded king,
Saul.
David,
a
great leader, however, was not forgiving of those who harm others that
the Creator cares about:.1Kings
21:2-29; 2Samuel
1:1-17; 2Peter
2:12.
In this way David was like
Joshua:.Joshua
10:28-42. Lesson being, you don't screw
with God's people and win, ever! Emmanuel's example of what he thought
of the ruling corrupt side:.Matthew
23:2-33.
One is either all out for
God or out for the evil dark satanic side. One out for God as David surely
was, can still lapse,
as he did when he just 'had
to have Bathsheba'. But David bounced back, stronger spiritually than
before. Is there ever a time the true God would not forgive? Nope!
David took time for God:.2Samuel
7:18.
David had many children when
he lived in Hebron.and
more when he lived in Jerusalem:.1Chronicles
3:1-9.
David had many mighty
warriors with him:.2Samuel
23:8-39.
The Amalekites
had taken all the things from the people who were with David while he and
his men were away, so David took the men who felt they were still able
to go on another journey to recover everything and went after them. Upon
arriving back home, the men who had gone with David, felt they should not
share in all the stuff they brought back that belonged to the Amalekites.
They felt they should keep these things for themselves.
It was a 'you didn't come
with us to help, so the stuff is all ours' attitude. But David didn't think
selfishness of any kind should be rewarded. The story:.1Samuel
30:1-31.
You would think that David's
descendents
would not want others to become aware of the fact that they have descended
from a murderer.(*).
Consider then God, who arranged for Emmanuel
to come out of the lineage
of.David!.Matthew
1:1; Romans 1:3. What forgiveness
is that! And who
really crucified Emmanuel?
David handed his son Solomon
good advice:.1Chronicles
28:1-8.