by admin | Sep 27, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
The fulfillment of Nathan’s prophesy—This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will have sexual relations with your wives in...
by admin | Sep 19, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Before David’s men marched out to…fight against Israel…in the forest of Ephraim,1 The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this...
by admin | Sep 16, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.1 I want to keep this in mind as I continue, just in case the NET translators are right to have translated the Hebrew word sound advice here, the...
by admin | Aug 31, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.1 Absalom was suspicious of Hushai at first, Do you call this loyalty [See Addendum below] to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?2 Hushai lied or told such a cleverly...
by admin | Aug 28, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
When David allowed Joab to bring Absalom back to Jerusalem after three years of self-imposed exile for murdering Amnon, he said, Let him go over to his own house. He may not see my face.1 This seems like an attempt to balance his role as a loving and merciful father...
by admin | Aug 22, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
When I studied the Bible looking for rules to obey I was the project, and I was in charge of my reform efforts. I determined which rules to obey and which didn’t apply to me. I didn’t necessarily see it that way at the time. I thought I was doing it all for God’s...