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06/26/2026

June 25, 2026 THURSDAY 1 Chronicles 16-17

“So, they brought the Ark of God and set it in the tent David had pitched for it.” And then they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God, and David said the blessing, and they kicked off the big barbeque! They had blown it the first time, but they got it the second time. This is the theme of Israel throughout the Bible, summarized by Stephen in Acts 7 before they stoned him. Abraham was called the first time while he lived in Ur when he was probably 50 or so, but He took his family, and he only went as far as Syria. He founded the great city of Haran, which he named after his dead brother. 25-years later, at age 75, after his dad died, Terah, died at age 205, Abram heard God call him again and this time he finally entered the land of Canaan! When Moses went out to deliver the Israelites the first time, they asked, “Who made you the boss? You gonna kill us like you did the Egyptian yesterday?” And Moses fled Egypt into the land of Midian [SW Arabia today]. But 40-years later when God sent him back to Egypt, the children of Israel received him and were delivered from their bo***ge. Two years after leaving Egypt they came to Kadesh Barnea but failed to enter the Promised Land the first time; but 38-years later Israel walked across the Jordan River on dry ground into the Promised Land. When Jesus, the Messiah came the first time, proclaiming Himself the “King of the Jews” Israel rejected Him. But when He comes the 2nd time “All Israel will be Saved [Romans 11.25-26!” Stephen was just in the process of telling his persecutors all that in Acts chapter 7, but they killed him for saying they had crucified their long-promised Messiah before he could give them the good news that God was not through with them and would yet give them another chance and that the 2nd time He comes the whole of Israel will receive Him and be saved.
Here in 1 Chronicles, David had failed to get the Ark to Jerusalem the first time because ‘they sought not God according to the proper order.’ But they succeed the 2nd time in Chapter 16. When Jesus comes the 2nd time what a big bash we are going to enjoy together at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb!
This first day of the sanctification of David’s Tabernacle is the only time blood sacrifices are offered before the Ark at Jerusalem until Solomon’s temple is dedicated. Blood sacrifices continued being made at what was left of the brazen altar. What was left of the Tabernacle had been relocated to Gibeon (remember the Gibeonites: the Nethinim: the devoted ones?) after Shiloh was destroyed. But at David’s Tabernacle, all future sacrifices were ‘sacrifices’ were singing and praise. For the ‘service in song’ David appointed of the Levites men to minister before the Ark of the Lord, 24/7, writing and collecting psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, to thank and praise YHWH, God of Israel. We are commanded in Hebrews 13 to ‘offer up to God CONTINUALLY the sacrifice of praise, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks unto his name!” This is what is meant by ‘Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.’ in 1 Thessalonians 5.
And David had written a special song for this occasion. Bask in its beauty. “Let the hearts of them rejoice who seek YHWH!” “Sing to Him and talk of all his wondrous works!” Note the words “continually,” “always,” “remember,” “be mind-full,” “forever and ever,” for this thing of following God is not one and done. It is like marriage. The ceremony makes you legally one, but becoming one is every day of your life together.
V.29 “Give God the glory due His name…” Romans 1 tells us the first step away from God into apostasy is, “When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful!” Our thank-FULL-ness is how we give God the glory due His name. Our lack gratitude shows how little we think of His precious blood, and how little we think we needed to be forgiven, and how really great we think we are.
I was teaching a seventh grade Sunday School class and asked the boys, “What do we deserve?” And one young fellow, balancing on the back legs of his metal folding chair, said, “We deserve to be loved.” And I said, “NO. You deserve to go to hell!” And he fell over backward, and his chair folded up on him. Yet much of the church is teaching, “You are so valuable, you deserve to be loved.” Well, that so diminishes the sacrificial love of Jesus for us sinners who were enemies of God! God loves us because He is LOVE, not because we are loveable, which should be a great comfort! His love and promises are not shaken by David’s failure with Bathsheba, and the murder of his loyal captain, her husband, Uriah; nor are they shaken by the rejection of the Messiah by the Jewish leaders of Jesus’ day: nor are they by the evil faithless things we think and do secretly or in public. It is ONLY when we recognize that we have been forgiven MUCH [at what GREAT COST] that we are able to love much.
V.38 Note that the gentile convert, Obededom, the Gitite (from Gath, a Philistine), in whose house the Ark had rested for three months, is given an honored position as part of the Nethinim in service to God at the tabernacle.

Chapter 17: When David lives in his palaces and his kingdom is at peace, David wants to honor God by building Him a house, a Temple. But God says through Nathan, ‘did I ever ask for a house?’ I, YHWH, will build you a house, and (17.12) “when your days be expired that you must go to be with your fathers, I will raise up a king from your descendants, and He will build Me a house, and I will establish His throne forever.”
Solomon is a partial fulfillment of these promises in that he will build God a magnificent Temple, one of the wonders of the ancient world, but it will be looted and torn down by the Babylonians some 400 years later. The real temple Jesus will build is His church, made up of living stones, Jew and Gentile, each inhabited by the Spirit of God. Since the Temple and the city of Jerusalem were destroyed in 586BC, there has not been a single son of David to rule as King over the sovereign nation of Israel. A thousand years later, Jesus, King of the Jews, did come, of whom the Angel Gabriel said, “He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and YHWH God will give Him the throne of His father David, and He shall rule over the house of Jacob forever!!!” But Jesus was rejected, and Israel was destroyed.
Today, MOST Christian theologians heretically say that Israel sinned away her day of grace, and God is through with her forever. But ‘grace’ means ‘getting what we don’t deserve.’ God promised in Jeremiah 31, “When the sun stops shining during the day, and the stars and moon refuse to appear at night, then I will cast off Israel, whom I foreknew.” And just a God promised, Israel has risen, vibrant and powerful, from her ashes, and SOON Jesus will step down from His Father’s throne to take the throne of his father David in Jerusalem and rule over the whole world for 1,000-years!
V.23-24, “Lord, let the things that You have promised concerning your servant and concerning his house being established forever, be done exactly as you have said, that your Name may be magnified forever, and all will say, ‘YHWH of Hosts is God of Israel!’ So let Israel, and let the house of David your servant, be established before You forever, just as you have said.” David is saying, ‘God, You have really stuck your neck out here! Your name is on the line. No matter how I or Israel fail to follow you, your Power and Providence and Prudence will be shown by whether You can keep these promises to me and to Israel, or not!’ God has staked His reputation as God on how He keeps his covenant promises to Israel. YHWH told Moses at the burning bush, “I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and THAT is My Name forever!” And though it LOOKED like, for all intents and purposes for almost 2,000-years, that God was NOT able to keep all His promises to Israel, YOU AND I HAVE BEEN PRIVILEDGED TO SEE GOD MIRACULOUSLY BEGIN TO FULFILL ALL OF HIS PROMISES TO ISRAEL BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. “YHWH, He is God!”

06/25/2026

6-26-26 FRIDAY 1 Chronicles 18-20

Chapter 18: In v.1, David subdued the Philistines and took Gath, one of the five fortress cities of the Philistines. The citizens of Gath were called Gitites. Remember that 600 Gitite warriors converted to faith in YHWH and committed their lives in service to King David! And remember that Obededom, in whose home David placed the Ark of the Covenant till he could figure out what they were doing wrong, was a Philistine from Gath.
Archaeology confirms the many Biblical accounts of the city of Gath. August 2015, Live Science published an online report entitled “Goliath Gates: Entrance to Famous Biblical Metropolis Uncovered.” “‘New findings reveal just how impressive the ancient Philistine city once was,’ wrote lead archaeologist, Aren Maeir, of Bar-Ilan University in Israel. ‘We knew that Philistine Gath in the 10th to 9th century B.C. was a large city, perhaps the largest in the land at that time. These monumental fortifications stress how large and mighty this city really was.’" The team was digging trenches to look for the ancient city's fortifications when they found the top surface of a monumental gate and massive fortifications. Because the remaining walls are so massive (13-feet thick, enclosing more than 120 acres), it may take several seasons to fully uncover them. Maeir said, ‘So far, only the top surface of the structures are visible, but based on the size and shape of the stones (4’ x 4’ x 6.5’) used to make them, the city walls must have been quite large, forming a rather imposing boundary that prevented the tribe of Judah from expanding westward.’ The team also found ironworks and a Philistine temple near the massive gates, with some pottery and other finds typically associated with Philistine culture. Though the pottery represents a distinctive Philistine style, it also shows elements of Israelite technique, suggesting the cultures did influence each other in ways unrelated to war.”
And from a 2019 article from Jewish Archaeology, “Archaeologists excavating the ancient Philistine city of Gath have uncovered massive 3,000-year-old fortifications of a size unprecedented for their time and place.” Every one of the thousands and thousands of historic details given in the Bible that can be checked [and more is being unearthed every day] have been shown to be absolutely accurate!
David also put Jewish garrisons in Damascus; and the Syrians became David's servants and brought him gifts. Thus, did YHWH preserve and prosper David wherever he went. The rest of this chapter retells the exploits of David’s conquests so that his kingdom, just as God promised, spread from the Euphrates River in the north to Egypt in the south, and from the Arabian desert in the east to the Mediterranean on the west. So, we know all the historical data in the Bible is true, and all the promises of God are not only true, but they are “Yes, and Amen [2 Corinthians 1.20]” for you and for me today!
David laid up great stores of gold and silver as spoils of his many conquests which he dedicated to YHWH. These he will leave to his son, Solomon, to use in building the Temple in Jerusalem [V.8].

Chapter 19 details Joab’s brilliant winning strategy in battle against Ammon and Syria, which we read about back in 2 Samuel.

Chapter 20 tells us again of Goliath’s brothers and how each was dispatched by David’s mighty men. V.3, translated in the KJV as, “[David] brought out the people that were in it [capital city of the Ammonites], and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes,” should be translated as it is in 2 Samuel 12.31 where the conquered Ammonites were put to [work with] saws, harrows of iron, and axes. Conquered peoples were often required to labor at least part of the year on public works for their new masters. V.3 says David required this of all those he conquered.

06/24/2026

June 24, 2026 WEDNESDAY 1 Chronicles 13-15

Chapter 13: V.4, “The thing was right in the eyes of the people.” But it is NOT going to turn out anything like the great day King David had envisioned. For four hundred years the Ark had resided at Shiloh in the tabernacle Moses had built for it at Mt Sinai, till the Philistines took the Ark in battle from the cold dead hands of Hophni and Phinehas, and subsequently destroyed the Tabernacle. God does not espouse that maxim, ‘The end justifies the means.’ Or the lie that all a person needs is to be sincere. God is holy, and his holiness requires that not only the end be noble [‘according to His purposes’ Romans 8.28], but that the means also be as He has proscribed and revealed [Abraham and Hagar come to mind here].
This was a really BIG day! “David gathered ALL Israel together, from Shihor down in Egypt all the way up to Hemath (N. of Damascus, Syria)... to bring the Ark of God from Kirjathjearim.”
Remember when the Philistines killed Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phineas, and took the Ark into their cities, they began to die like flies. Finally, they begged the God of the box for forgiveness, and God told them to put the ark on a new cart and let two oxen, mamas with new calves, pull it back to Israel. When the cart got to the outskirts of Bethshemesh the jubilant Jews cut up the wooden cart and sacrificed the oxen to YHWH...and then they opened the Ark! And they instantly all dropped dead! So, the Nethinim, the ‘devoted ones’, the Gibeonites, were ordered to go get the Ark and take it to one of their cities. Obediently, they carried the Ark to Kirjathjearim, where it was placed for safe keeping in the house of Abinidab, and there it had been sitting for more than 40 years!
We know from Samuel that this big gathering was not only to bring the Ark to Jerusalem, but was also a big victory celebration. When David was anointed King of all Israel, and then, quickly conquered the mighty Jebusites and took Jerusalem for his capital, the Philistines, who had sat back for some 16-years, enjoying the civil war between Saul and David, and then between David and Ishbaal, suddenly awoke to the threat David and a unified Israel presented.
The Philistines had come out en masse against Israel hoping to nip this clear and present danger in the bud. But God gave David two great victories over the Philistines that so subdued them, they were never again a major threat to Israel. The Philistines disappeared forever from the pages of history after they were taken into Babylonian captivity in 605BC. This great and glorious gathering was to honor God, but surely David expected it to bring him honor and unify the nation under his leadership.
You have heard the deadly phrase, ‘But we have always done it that way!’ The Ark was never to be touched except by the sons of Aaron, the priests. When the tabernacle was being moved, they were to walk into the holy of holies with a blue sheet in front of their faces and cover the ark, and then cover that cloth with a waterproof covering, before allowing the Kohathites to come in and carrying forth the Ark upon their shoulders [Number 4.15, 7.9].
Listen to me! What you don’t know CAN hurt you! It certainly appears from Chapter 15.12-13, that David had asked the priests how to transport the Ark, for there he lays the blame for this fiasco at their feet. If he did, the new generation of priests didn’t have a clue what God’s word said about proper transport protocol. I often remind the flock of God that He has entrusted to my care of Acts 17.11: “The people in Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, because they received the word with all readiness of mind, and they SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURE DAILY to see if what Paul was teaching was true.” And I warn them as I warn you right now, ‘If they checked out the Bible to see if what Paul was teaching was true, don’t take anything just because Brian Burgess says it. You have got to get it directly from God, through His Word. Faith comes by hearing God in his word!’
IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE. And David, who was never advised by Samuel to write out a copy of the Torah and to read from it every day, being ignorant of God’s revealed will on transporting the Ark, gives orders to transport the Ark the way God had told the pagan Philistines to transport it. Assuming, I assume, that if God wanted it transported that way back then, that is how He would want Israel to transport it. But the Philistines had no anointed priests of God to carry it, so God had allowed them a way to get rid of it before they all died!
So here is this huge crowd of Israelites gathered from Egypt all the way to Syria, lining the road the five miles or so from Kirjath to Jerusalem to cheer on the new King’s victory parade! One of Abinidab’s boys drove the cart and another, Uzza, walked along beside the cart. The music is playing, the people are cheering, when the cart hits a pothole, and Uzza, not a priest, reaches up to steady the Ark, and ZAAAAP, he immediately fell dead! The stunned musicians stopped their playing and the cheers turned to screams as the crowd remembers the fate of those in Bethshemesh some 40 years earlier! You can imagine the panic as the onlookers began to flee for their lives. The big Jerusalem barbeque planned for that evening was canceled, and all the hotels found themselves suddenly empty and all their reservations canceled! And the buck stopped at David the King!
V.11 is an understatement: “David was displeased (embarrassed, confused, angry, and afraid over his failure in front of all the big wigs in Israel!).” He couldn’t bring the Ark into the city of Jerusalem and take the risk of the same kind of slaughter the Philistines had experienced. So, he had the Ark carried into the home of Obededom, the Gittite (what people from Gath were called), who was a Philistine convert to Judaism, who may have come to worship YHWH, having seen first-hand the power of the God of the box among his people.
The ark remained for three months in Obed’s home. And far from being endangered by God’s presence, everything Obed and his family had, and did, was blessed! It appears two things happened in that three months. How God blessed Obed’s house gave David hope. And David, or a designee, searched the scripture to see what God had to say about how the Ark was to be transported. When all else fails, read the instructions. In 15.2, we see that David had found the secret hidden in plain sight in the Book of Numbers, “Then David said, ‘None ought to carry the Ark of God but the Levites: for them hath YHWH chosen to carry the Ark of God, and to minister unto him forever!’”
TAKE TWO. In chapter 15.2, again “David gathered all Israel together (talked them all into coming back) to bring the Ark of YHWH to the place he had prepared for it in Jerusalem. And David said to the Priests, the sons of Aaron: (v.12) ‘Sanctify yourselves, that you may bring up the Ark of YHWH, God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. Because you did not so at the first, God made a breach upon us, for we (acknowledging his part in issuing the order) sought Him not after the due order.” Wrong, Oprah! No matter how sincere you are, how right you think your way is, there IS only one way to God. All other ways are DEATH!
V.15, “And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves therein, as Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord.” For 2 Corinthians 2.14 says that ‘God always leads us in triumph in Christ...’ If we are not triumphing it may be that we are trying to do things for God our way rather than with God his way. Without me, Jesus said, ‘YOU can do NOTHING.’
And v.27 says David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, wearing the linen ephod of the Priests and Levites. And all Israel brought up the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH with shouting, and singing with sound of the cornet, and trumpets, and cymbals, psalteries, and harps.” Now that is the fun kind of church I like to be part of! Joyful noise is my favorite!

06/23/2026

6-23-26 TUESDAY 1 Chronicles 11-12
We know from 2nd Samuel, written by the prophets, Nathan and Gad, that David reigned as King of Judah from the city of Hebron for 7½-years after Saul and Jonathan were killed on Mt Gilboa when the Israelites were overrun by the Philistines. During that time David ruled Judah from his capital in Hebron, west of the Dead Sea, Eshbaal (Ishbosheth), Saul’s youngest royal son ruled for a time over what remained of Israel not under Philistine occupation. Eshbaal’s capital was Mahanaim, near Jabesh-Gilead, east of the Jordan river.
The reign of Saul’s son, Ishbosheth, ended, as we saw in 2 Samuel 3, when he scolded his daddy’s general, Abner, for his affair with Rizpah, Saul’s widowed concubine. Enraged at being called onto the carpet, Abner told Ishbosheth he was done propping up his pitiful little kingdom! Abner then began to feel out an alliance with David. But after Abner had had a meeting with David at Hebron, Joab, David’s cousin and General, killed him. In a skirmish at the pool of Gibeon some years earlier Abner had killed Joab’s little brother, Asahel; so Joab claimed killing Abner was his legal right as his brother’s kinsman-redeemer.
With Abner out of the way, two of King Ishbosheth’s bodyguards crept into his bedroom and assassinated him while he enjoyed his afternoon nap. They stuffed Ishbosheth’s severed head into a pillowcase and carried it as a gift to David down in Hebron, thinking they would be richly rewarded. But David rewarded their pre-meditated murder by ordering their heads to be cut off. And “Then all Israel gathered themselves to David...saying, ‘Behold, we are your bone and your flesh...and they anointed David king over all Israel.” In Deuteronomy, God said Israel was never to choose as their king a person who was not a Jew, one who was not ‘bone of their bone, flesh of their flesh.’ That is why, though a naturalized citizen can serve in almost any capacity to which he or she can get elected in America, the Constitution stipulates that “No Person except a natural born Citizen… of the United States…shall be eligible to the Office of President...”
With all of Saul’s royal sons dead [still had some born of concubines], the leaders of the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying: “YHWH God said to you, ‘You shall feed MY PEOPLE Israel, and you shalt be ruler over My people, Israel.’” Our Founding Fathers saw here the reason that God created government: for the benefit of ‘We the People’ of God… John Adams joked that ‘If all men were angels, we would need no government.’ But Adams was wrong of course, for even the holy angels of God are ordered by Government for their good, and the coordination and prospering of their God-given purposes. Anarchists are of the Satanic spirit of antichrist. Satan, who himself did not want to be governed, as soon as he fell, set up a hierarchical governmental structure for his demonic fallen followers.
David, and Solomon after him, recognized they were to preserve and protect the people of God in this ‘one nation under God.’ How did we get from a monarchy to a republican form of government? First, in Acts, GOD told His people, not the apostles, TO CHOOSE deacons [means ‘servant’]. And God told them to be sure they chose capable, spirit-filled men, to be public servants for the benefit of the people and to keep order and decency in the church. And from that passage in Acts, and others in Scripture, it was the hated, persecuted Baptists who insisted on the sacred doctrine of ‘the Priesthood of the Believer.’ Every person is directly responsible to God alone, not to a priest, a pope, or a preacher. And every child of God has been given the Holy Spirit of God to take the word of God and lead them into all truth. So the will of God may be known through the corporate will of God’s people [in whom, Philippians 2.13 says, “God is working to will and do of His good pleasure.”
Because Jesus said the church is not to be like hierarchal secular governments of the world, the laity of each Baptist church has always chosen the Pastor and Deacons to whom they entrust the responsibility for caring for and leading and feeding their congregations. And it is from those early stubborn very vocal Baptists who suffered a hundred years of constant pressure and persecution that it finally dawned on our Founders [especially Thomas Jefferson and James Madison] that if God wanted men to choose their spiritual leaders, surely God gave to them the same right to choose their civic leaders.
From Scripture our Founders found these ‘self-evident’ truths: “That all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” And “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to establish a new government…” Before the Declaration of Independence, each of these ‘self-evident truths’ had been recurrent themes of sermons preached in Baptist and Congregational churches for decades.
V.9, “David grew greater and greater for YHWH of hosts was with him.” Not because David was talented or smart, both of which he was. Talent nor IQ are guarantees of success. No matter how much the smartest person on earth knows it is but a grain of sand on the beach of all there is to know. That’s why God says, “As high as the heavens are above the earth, so are My thoughts and your thoughts; and My ways and your ways [Isaiah 55.9].” Think of it! God knows EVERYTHING! EVEN THE FUTURE…THE END FROM THE BEGINNING! While there is NOTHING God does not know, there ARE a few things God cannot do, and one of those is, God cannot learn anything!
How do WE get David’s God to be with US like He was with David? Paul said in Philippians 4.9 “Those things that you have both heard and learned of me, DO: and the God of peace shall be with you.” A sheep is one of the dumbest animals on earth, but fortunately for sheep, they don’t need to know much. All a sheep really needs to know is Who his Shepherd is! As long as he keeps his eyes on his shepherd ‘surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever [Psalm 23]!’
The rest of chapter 11 is almost identical to the information about the Mighty Three, the Three, and the Thirty; all powerful, faithful warriors, God sent to help David build the Kingdom of Israel. God was with David in these soldiers (and policemen) who ‘protect and serve’. Romans 13 calls such men, ‘ministers of God to us for good.’ God bless and protect our American Heroes: soldiers, police, and emergency services.
Chapter 12: One of the most interesting groups to me who joined David when he was still on the run from King Saul are the amazing, elite warriors of Benjamin, Saul’s own tribe, a large number of whom were left-handed. They saw what King Saul had become, and knew what God had said of David, so, defecting from Saul, at the risk of their own lives and that of their families, they came down into Philistine territory to serve a king without a kingdom. They were “armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows (remember when Joab slew Amasa, I told you he could kill equally well with either hand), even 3,000 [v.29] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin!”
The summary of Chapter 12 is 38-40: “All these men of war who could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king. And they rejoiced there with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. And the tribes near them, Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali brought loads of bread on donkeys, and camels, and mules, and oxen, and they brought meat, and meal, and cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance for there was joy in Israel!” Psalm 133.1-3 “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity…for there, YHWH has commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.”
To that end, Romans 12.18 says, “So,” to maintain that unity of the Spirit, “as much as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.” To do that we must know two things: God loves me and God is in control. When we “KNOW” down deep where we live, “that all things work together for our good”…we can “boldly say, ‘God is my helper; I will not be afraid of what man can do to me [Hebrews 13].’” AND, too, we must see clearly that we are not fighting against flesh and blood, but against Satan and his demons at every level of spiritual and physical government (Ephesians 6). So, how do we fight Satan? 2 Corinthians 10.3-5, says, “Though we live in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (of our flesh), but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds (Satan’s widely-believed lies)...taking captive every thought, making it submit obediently to Christ.” Wield the sword of the Spirit: the Word of God—and the gates of Hell cannot prevail!

06/21/2026

6-22-26 MONDAY 1 Chronicles 9-10

Chapter 9: V.1, “Who were carried away to Babylon because of their sin!” God says it was not because they were outgunned and outmanned that they fell to the Babylonians, it was because they had sinned against their God till their hearts were so hard they could no longer repent! Had they remained faithful to God, He would have defended them though all the nations of the earth be gathered together against them [as He will in these last days... Zechariah 12.3].
Verse 1 tells us two things: 1) The importance Israel placed on keeping genealogies as a definitive record of inheritance of the land (which was vital in proving who the real Messiah was when He came: Adam>Noah>Shem>Abraham>Isaac>Jacob>Judah>David> Jesus, the Messiah. And 2) 1 and 2 Chronicles (originally one book) was written after the return from Babylon, probably by Ezra the priest and scribe (2 Chronicles 36.20-23).
V.2 jumps 70-years from the Babylonian captivity of 605BC to Persia’s permission to return to Jerusalem in 526BC, and picks up the genealogies of the few who initially returned with Zerubbabel to the wreckage and waste that once was the Holy City and the Temple mount, on which once stood one of the wonders of the Ancient World.
The majority that returned, leaving the wealth and opulence of Babylon, were Priests (sons of Aaron), Levites (sons of Levi), and the Nethinim. Who remembers the Nethinim? Not “Nephilim”: ‘fallen ones’ of Genesis 6, but ‘Nethinim’: ‘devoted ones’?
Gibeonites?
RIGHT! You guys are so good! After Israel had defeated Jericho and Ai, the leaders of the Gibeonites recognized they were the next people group in Israel’s line of conquest west of Bethabara where they had entered the Promised Land, crossing the Jordan River on dry ground [Bethabara means ‘House of the Crossing’]. On the west bank of the Jordan, Israel had set up camp at Gilgal as Joshua and a man from each of the twelve tribes had set up the monument of the twelve stones. Over the next weeks they first conquered Jericho, and then Ai. The five cities of the Hivites, were NEXT! Gibeon was the largest and best fortified of the five cities of the Hivites so the people of the five cities were often referred to as Gibeonites. In Joshua 9 we saw that the Hivites were able to trick Joshua and the elders of Israel into making a mutual defense pact with them.
To punish the five cities of the Gibeonites, because Joshua and the elders of Israel had vowed before God not to kill them (a vow, we saw in 2 Samuel, King Saul broke 500-years later when he tried to exterminate the Gibeonites), Joshua and the Israelites forced the Gibeonites to serve the Priests and Levites as they ministered at the Tabernacle, and later at the Temple. But rather than seeing this mandate as punishment, the Gibeonites embraced their new responsibility as an honor, and they all converted en masse to the worship of YHWH, the one true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. From that day on, the Gibeonites were always more faithful to God than were the Israelites themselves…hence, the moniker ‘Nethinim’: “devoted ones.” You and I, much like the Gibeonites, were not part of God’s chosen people, but because of Jesus we have been made part of the Commonwealth of Israel [Ephesians 2.12-14]. May we also be known to the ages to come as ‘devoted ones’.
As you read down through the list of those who returned to Israel with Zerubbabel, note in v.3 that the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh dwelt in Jerusalem. The northern kingdom of Israel had been conquered by Assyria in 722BC, 120-years before the Babylonians conquered Judah. Yet here Ephraim and Manasseh are in 526BC, 200 years after the ten tribes were relocated to other lands by the Assyrians, still distinguishable tribes. Just this verse alone dispels the myth of the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel, and all the silly and false teachings like ‘British Israelism’ that are based on it. We will see many more passages of Scripture that make it clear that no tribes were ever, nor are they today, ‘LOST’. And soon, once the rapture takes place, “ALL Israel will be saved (Romans 11.25-26).” God is setting up the evil alliance of Russia and Iran and the other Shia Muslim nations for the great battle of Ezekiel 38-39. In that battle God is going to fight for Israel against her enemies in every way He fought for Israel in her many miraculous victories throughout the Old Testament! And all Israel will repent and come to Christ, and out of that revival 144,000 young Jewish men, 12,000 from each of the 12-tribes of Israel, will forgo marriage knowing they have only a few years [3.5 years till Antichrist outlaws Christianity] to carry the “gospel of Kingdom to the World [Matthew 24.14], and then shall the end come.” It will be the BIGGEST revival the world has ever seen (Revelation 7)!
Just a note here...Several times I have heard pastors and teachers say the Rapture can’t happen yet because the church has not yet preached the gospel to the whole world. Everything in Matthew 24 is written to the Jews. And it will be Israel and NOT the church who will fulfill this prophecy. The church preaches ‘the gospel of Christ’ or ‘the Gospel of Salvation’ but ‘the gospel of the kingdom is used only of Israel. 2 Thessalonians 2 says the church will be in decline and apostasy before the Rapture [2 Thessalonians 2], which is why Jesus asked, “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth [Luke 18.8]?” It is because of the failure of churches in America that our nation is in decline.
Vs.33 ‘The singers’ were not charged with any other duties than to compose and play and sing psalms to YHWH, 24-7! Exodus 15.1 says, “Then sang Moses and the children of Israel unto YHWH, ‘I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously…’” Deborah and Barak celebrated God’s victory over Sisera and his iron chariots with, “I will sing unto YHWH, I will sing praise to the God of Israel…” King David sang, “I will give thanks unto You, O YHWH! Among the heathen, I will sing praises to your name.” Psalm 104.33 says, “I will sing to YHWH as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.” And I especially love the lyric from “He Keeps Me Singing”, that says, “Feasting on the riches of His grace; Resting ‘neath His sheltering wing; Always looking on His smiling face; THAT is why I SHOUT and SING!”
When the Levites were having to cut the throat of bulls and goats and lambs and rip the heads off of doves and pigeons, and pour out buckets of blood on the altar, and burn the flesh and the fat and the entrails, and the Nethinim then had to wash off the blood and bile and scrub the stones and carry in the wood and haul off the ash, I would have wanted me one of those singing jobs!
And today, ‘Hallelujah’, because Jesus came as THE all-sufficient sacrifice for sin forever, we ALL have been given the job and privilege to offer up sacrifices of praise, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks unto His name [Hebrews 13]! So, MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE [Psalm 100]! God saved us to SING! We are to serve God with GLADNESS!

Chapter 10 tells the same story of Saul’s death that we saw in 1 Samuel 31. “So, Saul died for his sin against YHWH, and against the word of YHWH, which he kept not; and for asking counsel of a witch that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of her rather than enquire of YHWH. Therefore, YHWH slew him, and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.” In John 3.27, John the Baptist answered, “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.” So, get over yourself, but never get over Jesus! Revelation 3.11 says to beware and don’t let any man or woman ‘take your crown’.
And the surest way to lose our crown is for our head to get too big for it. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. We have eternity to enjoy our crowns (the Bible lists five kinds of crowns the Christian may win by faith-walking with Jesus), but we have only a tiny amount of time to win them. Think it’s too late for you? Don’t fall for that. Paul said, ‘Forget the things that are behind’ and daily ‘press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus [Philippians 3.13-14].’
What is that HIGH CALLING? To be like Jesus [Romans 8.29]. How do we do that? ‘Be transformed by the renewing of your mind [Romans 12.2]’; by walking with God in the word every day [John 6.8.31-32]; and then ‘whatever you do in word or deed, do it with all your heart as to the Lord, knowing it is of the Lord you will receive the reward [Colossians 3].’ Forget the past and walk with God today, never forgetting that EVERYTHING we do is either worship [‘In all your ways acknowledge Him’...Proverbs 3.6] or it is sin [Romans 14.23]. And that even a cup of cold water given in the name of the Lord will in no wise lose its reward.

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