Portrait of a Disgruntled Prophet -Part 2

I'm so glad to be back with you again, and I think I was moving a little fast thinking, I didn't have that much time, but I'm going to try and slow down on the bed so we can take our time with this. I did what I did in the first presentation was the beginning of the conflict between Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, God never going to look at the intensification of the conflict, particularly into speeches. That stand who gives in chapter 12 of his supposed to be farewell speech, though. He never actually leaves and goes away and never retires. He's the Emeritus, Professor keeps hanging around the department and and causing problems, even though he was supposed to move down to the somebody else. Replace them with a Chapter 13 part of chapter 13 is a speech. He makes the soul speak, speak of judgment and condemnation, that then results in certain actions of Solomon, Chapter 14 going to look at these if you want to have your Bible. Do you want to take a look at chapters 12 13 and 14. I make reference to certain versus along the way. all right, so first major Point, Samuels rant about the monarchy even after soul is already came that's in chapter 12, this takes place at gilgal and if you read the two verses in the previous chapter, so all it just been installer King formerly Google. So this text message, right? As Saul has been finally acknowledged to be king and Samuel Begins by certain control, he takes responsibility for. So I was being King. In his opening statement. In the first verse Samuel makes two claims that are false beliefs on the surface there first. Assam news said to all Israel, behold. I have listened to your voice and all that. You have said to me, really And I have install the king over you. I've King The King literally interesting phrase in Hebrew. No, it has not been listening to the people's voice. He's been resisting their voice, but then this opening statement comes immediately after Solomon made King. And we read in 11:15. All the people went to gilgal and where they installed so call as king before. Yahweh, in cookout using the same phrase they can you sort of the diverted to the number for King.

So it's a strange statement that start with I install Solitaire game. But the narrator just told you the people did.

So point to I'm going to adapt a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet, a comment about Queen Gertrude the lady doth protest too much, methinks. Well the profit does protest too much, methinks tell me a Speech in first Samuel, 12 is full of attention-grabbing phrases. I counted eleven of them, because them from the hole with me, can they not pay attention people? I'm talking That's his rhetoric. The second thing about his rhetoric is, it has a quasi-legal phrasing. He disputes with the people about his innocence yet. No one is accusing anything. Tickets for testing immediately. I sent first three who I am and testified against me before y'all went before his anointed whose ox. Have I taken I taken, or who am I defrosted abused or from whose hand of, I taken a bribe that I made blind my eyes with it. I would return it to you.

The reference to bribes. Is meant to distinguish him from his son's because in 1st Samuel 8th Street, the songs were portrayed as taking bribes. That's why the people wanted a new king came because of the sons were not doing well. They said Your son's take bribes. The Pervert Justice. Are you getting old?

But the reference to not have him. Pick him like a different, from the taken in the lock, my card at a different different word. Laca is meant to distinguish Samuel from the King because Samuel uses this verb take four times in his description of the ways or Justice of the King's. The King will take from you. Your son's, your daughter's, your servants, your feels take everything from your leave, you high and dry.

yet, the narrator is so you want under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit back in chapter 9,

Like a king would take. I'm not like the king. Button 9:22. The narrator adds a verb that is strictly unnecessary in Hebrew, most English translation, dropped the verb because it's unnecessary. This is what first time in 922 says

That's a mule. And the servant boy and brought them into the whole Samuel. Brought him and brought in the same verb. Sam has been checked into that. Take her soul. To control us all.

To the real purpose of Samuel's defense. It is called a legal language is to show that there was no need for her replacement.

But then he shifts from his defense in verse 3. Truck. Using the people of seen in verse five, right after, they absolve him to be innocent in verse 4. Grocery carry on testify against me before the Lord. And before that I wanted they said you not destroy us or abused us. You've not taken anything from the hand of anyone. He said you always witness against you. And it's annoying. That is witness that you've not told anything in my hand. It's a strange way to put it to testify against me if I do anything wrong, the moment. I'm a dog with you. I'm accusing. You of accusing me, but they didn't choose him, but asking for a king is equivalent to accusing him. So Samuel moves from self-defense to accusation and the implicit reason for the accusation is because they asked for a king, that's what the speech is all about. And from here on it becomes very clear think of her seven, I know take your stand and I will enter into judgment with 40 Highway against you. Okay Samuel. Number 3, Samuels confusing retelling of his real story. No Samuel's, indictment of the people would begin by him, telling the story of Israel, that, you know, it's important to retell the story that tell that, although story many times was in the Old Testament, someone reads cousin summarizes the Exodus or the time of the judges and sofas Abraham so forth. Samuel seems to be modeling. What is doing on What's called the prophetic lawsuit or the Covenant lawsuit. For example, in Jeremiah chapter 2, Jeremih accused of the people of idolatry. And in Chapter 2 verses, 6 & 7 News summarizes. The story of The Exodus, there was a nurse in the promised land entry as the basis for critiquing. The people God did all this for you. Look what you did in response, you turned aside to serve other gods. So somebody's going to retell the story of Israel as a basis for critiquing.

He summarizes the Exodus, the judges and origin of the monarchy story. Is there a man? Just getting confused? Is it going to see now you know, he must be drawing us some alternative tradition of the story of Israel that we don't have in the Bible is changed the story. Anytime you tell a story, you can Nuance of details to make the point. You want to make his point becomes very care from how he's changed the story. Gunga Ginga verses 6 through 12 628. Add a question. I want to ask is who exactly settled in Israel, in the land of promise, and call it out. Joshua, Jacob came into Egypt than your ancestors. Cried out to Yahoo. And you always said, Moses and Aaron and they brought forth your ancestors from Egypt.

Who said, who said the people in end in French?

Why does Samuel admit Joshua's roll? What is Joshua's relationship to Moses?

What is Sawyer's relationship to Samuel? By leaving out The Replacements, he's making a point and let interesting. All right, let's go to the judges verses 9 through 11. I wish I had a chart. I wish I could give you tell me a list. Four judges, who is Gideon bed, and who knows ever heard of it doesn't occur in the Book of Judges there. Two versions of the Septuagint, the Greek translation and they're confused, they don't know who is General with Debra Wright?

And one of one of the Septuagint translation is so embarrassed that Samuel put his own name there, they change, or the Samsung. Who is the last judge in the Book of Judges. Did the tar. Gandara, make paraphrase has Gideon. Who is there about Samsung's? Instead of better than Jacqueline Samuel. And Assyria transmission, the procedure has, Deborah and Barak first, then, give you an injection to fix it.

Who the heck is Ben? And why is he there? And why are some Aladdin? His name to the list?

No, I want you to compare, and again, I wish I had a chart, but I'm going to try to make it real cuz I'm going to compare Samuels implicit Narrative of Oppression and deliverance. With What's the total of the judges? Israel is besieged by other nations. That attacked them, they calling God for health God. Send the judge and delivers them. In the Book of Judges chapter 13 through 16. You have 5 episodes of Oppression and deliverance

God sent food to bring release, then you have sister of hers are attacking Israel. Deborah and Barak to bring relief Millions midianites attack gacha life. I'm a nice attack. God sends jeptha to bring relief.

What's? Samuel does. Is he lists first of all, in order Street? Examples of Oppression and says you called her to the Lord and God sent judges, and they list for judges. That's the way he doesn't, he doesn't correlate to a judge on for judges and in between you called out to the Lord. He has the first impression is Cicero a r. I need to see your video. Doesn't match the story. He has the Philistines and melon which doesn't make any sense. You're the king of Moab injector pressure on four judges, on the 4th Georgia's Samuel. What is the depression from which Samuel is going to deliver Israel? The Monarch. It's it's not stupid but it's implicit

Also when someone says you called her, the Lord has careful. You know that when Israel called on the Lord for help There's only once they ever confess their sins. It's in 10:10 of judges in the ammonite thing. Whatever comes just call for help and I'm not going to confess your sins but God helps them. Anyway, he's not merciful. And God says I don't believe him anyway but I don't believe in religion based.

2 Samuel quotes that episode when they cried out to the Lord, they said we've seen for me for sick. On your way, we serve the bills and I started now delivered from the hands of our enemies and will serve you. That's what time does says that Israel said, why does he caught that one time? When they call out to God, for help because they have been idolatrous

Cuz we want Israel to repent of the idolatry of the monarchy and ask forgot to have them on your diet. Going to see this very tired in the moment. The monarchy is a sin equivalent to a Dollar Tree to Turning aside from the Lord, and he wants is wrote out all on him for deliverance. as the people did in the time of the judges, So now we get to the third episode, does The Exodus? And the judge is now the monarchy the origin of the monarchy.

But use this is first 12 but you saw that came against you so you said to me know, but I think I ran over us. No Yahweh, your God was your king. It's unpack that

I saw the live is them from. Dominatrix.

But you said no cancel lovers. That's a quote from chapter 8.

So instead of connecting the people desire for a king of the Philistines rat is really what was going on, you connected with the letter, ammonites red. Even though y'all, where's your God was your king? Why does he confuses events like this? I'm going to suggest it could be because

the ammonites right was solved by soul. Because of that. Connect to Eminem's rap to the people asking for a king to solve the problem. We just messes up the history cuz he cannot admit. That's all delivered Israel after he was chosen by God anointed as king installed as king legitimately

As if that's a contradiction. But y'all way your God damn and didn't think you can use to deny the legitimacy of the monarchy does. Contrasting. It with God's kingship even though got to love the monarchy and she was the first king. All right? That's the story of Israel. Doesn't match any version. We Know It doesn't even match the origin of monarchy in the book of Samuel. Falcon Point for Samuel lap, siding statement of Covenant sanctions Iran sanctions, of course, our blessing and curse, right? The consequences of obedience and Disobedience loyalty and unfaithfulness know it's often the case in the Old Testament that the negative consequences of an imprecation. A curse are not actually stated as if they're too terrible to be stated. An example, is when David wants Uriah to go down to his house and wash his feet with me, is have sex with his wife, so that David adultery covered up when the, when the baby is born and Uriah says, as you live in that you're still lives. If I do this thing... You don't stay there. If I do the same and a curse or something like that, you don't State the consequences. It's very common in in the Old Testament. Modern translation, don't know how to do that. So they read it. Like I will not do any such thing. It doesn't state that negative consequences, right? Offer.

However, this contrasts with Samuel who has a seeming inability to stay at the positive consequences consequences for teen. If you fear your way and serve him and listen to his voice, I do not rebelled against the word of his mouth, both you and the King over you follow. If you follow Yahweh or God,

Then what nothing if you do all this?

But there's 50, if you don't listen to the voice of the Lord has his mouth, then the hand of the Lord against you as it was against your ancestors. Septuagint says, as it was against, you will be against your King 2. He can stay with you if you turn away from God.

He can't stay the positive consequence. Why? Because he cannot believe that could be a positive consequence of Israel, serving God with a cane. It's impossible to be kind, even articulated and the narrator for trailers that are silent. If you all serve the Lord while having a king But why did you disobey is a blank there?

5. Samuel gets the people to admit the monarchy is evil. Even after salt has become king. Samuel causes an out-of-season storm to happen when the wheat Harvest is ripe. He called, and God for the storm to convince the people that they did great evening asking for a, can you do this? Great thing storm, Great America. So the people will see that what they did was Evil verses 16 and 17 domata. Take your stand and see this great thing that Yahweh is doing before you rise. Isn't that the wheat Harvest today? Everything is dry. The rains are coming, so it's perfect. Time to refit. I will call to the Lord and He will thunder and rain. And no one see that. You're evil is great, but you've done in the eyes of your way by asking for yourself a king. Somebody calls and God and God, responds to his call. Why does God respond? Because he's not going to let any of Samuel's words, fall to the ground. Some guy that I'm committed to doing what this Prophet wants and the storm comes, which would have destroyed the wheat Harvest. And it makes the people fear the lord, but it only fear the lord, let me redo Verse 18. I'm Samuel call to Yahoo and you always send thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly fear the other way, and Samuel. first, I'm going to In fact, in chapter 12, when God send Samuel to Jesse's household in Bethlehem to anointed king, the people that give you come in peace cuz they're scared of the storm that destroyed crops right.

What would be the consequences?

The people. Okay, sorry, I haven't gotten got this verse 19 is the next reversed, the result of the storm with the people not only fear the lord enter Samuel. They admit they sending asking for All the people say the song free on behalf of your servants to Yahoo your God you are with God at work. I'm down here at all right? So that we may not die for. We have added to order since the evil of asking for a king.

What would be the consequences of the people admitting asking? For a king was a sin. What would it? How would that affect very loyal to Saul going forward?

It wouldn't be very pleasant, I don't think. And what effect would this admission have on saw himself? Cuz remember soul, is there with the people This is right after he becomes installed is clean. So I'm very sore listening to this and the people who he's the leader just admitted, that is evil to have a king but he's the king.

So having that is my next point of 6, Samuel, no explicitly identify the monarchy with a Dollar Tree. He's hinted at this before he gets more expected. He uses terms for Idols, from the prophetic literature. Praise wrote in verse, 20, and 21. And some people are not following him with all your heart. I do not turn aside after empty, say to who Which kind of profit Loyola, Lou, I cannot deliver for their empty tohu. Bohu empty nest or worthlessness and low in your ear or the plural of your illusion sings, which kind of profit are found in Isaiah and Jeremiah to describe idols. Interesting. It's actually in the very same, Jeremiah coupons and they talked about the Covenant lawsuit, he uses to who and low your ear. Idols are useless empty unprofitable things because they cannot deliver that's very clear.

Big point that Isaiah mix. in 1st Samuel, 12:20 1, Samuel says

Don't turn a side off to empty things. I cannot profit and can't deliver. Idols can't deliver. Can Kings deliver. Can King save. He's suggesting they can't, they're useless. Yet remember what God Said to Samuel 9:16. Tomorrow, I'm going to send you a man who Tribe of Benjamin. You will anoint him and he shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines, they came from the I'm a nice. So there is a disjunction in reality between a Dollar Tree. In Monarch, if they're not the same thing, they can become the same thing, but they're not intrinsically Samuel thinks they are the same thing. I'm Samuel concludes on a positive note with an oath, to pray for them and teach them the right way. More over for me for a beer for me, that I have sinned against the Lord by stitching to pray on your behalf and I will intercede on behalf of Israel. And the king is there. So on behalf of the king to one would think and also give them instruction in the in the right way to follow what they should be doing this damn thorough, There's my analogy. The number 7, So I didn't use it by telling you a little bit of a story when I got married many years ago. My father-in-law my wife's dad. Initially was opposed to the marriage cuz we were so young. No, he's been divorced, three times. He had no real reason to think of marriage could succeed with young people. But we went ahead with the marriage. Anyway, we're married is coming up 46 years. This August we decided we weren't going to give him a speech at the wedding because we think he wanted to say anything positive but after everybody gave the speech, as he got to put that something to say and my heart stack, my wife shut up. I stepped my sister from a previous marriage between her stepsister was but eleven Heather. Hanna said hang on hang on.

This is my witness, my analogy. Samuel is the Father of the Bride is really the bride. Saul is the groom.

That the wedding is a metaphor for the installation of the king.

the Father of the Bride, supposed to be the officiating of the wedding circling, in this case, Aztec place of gilgal. And the Father of the Bride, who is the Minister of the wedding disapprove in no uncertain, terms of the marriage of his daughter but you can't stop. What's it mean to formalize? And celebrate the relations for bride and groom people and Kim. A disgruntled Minister, makes a speech at the wedding at the banquet in which she gets the bread to admit. I've always been an exemplary father for you, right? You did me to replace me with a with a groom. She said you're right. You have never done anything wrong. You're the perfect father. Any promises to be available at any time for marriage counseling. To teach her the right way and pray for her. No matter what problems is ill-conceived marriage? May actually have to be there for her the whole time and on her wedding day. After that speech. She said, his dad. You're right. It was a bad idea to get married. That's what chapter 12 is a boat. If you look at it in human terms, what possible chance would there be for this marriage to succeed? And what would be the effect of this speech on the groom? That's why the subtitle of my whole book. My holds teaching is Samuel's resistance to God and undoing of soul. Crystal is thrown off balance by this abuse of power, and he starts to doubt himself, we're going to see that very clearly in the next unit. Let me check how much time I have left.

Okay. Alright. Alright. Alright, on Samuels, condemnation of sore in Chapter 13, pacifically verses 5 to 15 whole chapter. This too much there. Which come on this whole disobey. And who's Commander, saw, disobey the question, I want to raise. As a contact point one, the Philistine troops are gathering for battle and soul of the sacrifice. They're Gathering their battle against Israel at michmash, and Israelites are running scared. They're hiding and holes and so on. So all is in Gilead gilgal with his troops and they're beginning to run away and his his his army is declining and he decides to offer sacrifices, the very sacrifices the to the Samuel suggested he was going to offer back in chapter 10, 7 days. And I'll coming off a burnt offering and a sacrifice of Fellowship for communion.

I guess the offer, the first one that burnt offering, which is a symbol of total dedication to the Lord that you burn everything. You don't eat any of it. It's good. Go to the Lord. So he were told. So what is a gilgal and all the people falling and trembling? He waited 7 Days the time appointed by Samuel Books-A-Million come pick her up. People began to slip away from soil. So he said, bring the burnt offering to me and offering to the well-being, and he offered a burnt offering at that moment arrives.

What have you done? That's it. This is his immediate condemnation of salt. You know why I sometimes try to model this in class, I come to class with everybody ready for the quiz.

I made that up, right, so they must balance. What are you doing? You send? Solar pipe when I saw the people were slipping away from me and you didn't come within the days appointed. And the Philistines are mustering at michmash. I said, now the floozies will come down apartment gilgal and I'm not in the Lord for the burnt offering.

This is what Samuel says you've acted foolishly for your nut, kept the Commandments of God, which he commanded, you.

And then a few verses later, you're not kept what he always commanded. You made it very clear your broken command of the Lord Which command was this? Some commentators suggested maybe only priests could offer sacrifices. That's been shown to be not true at all. Not at all true. Others suggest that Samuel disobeyed saws instruction trim to wait 7 days a Google so he can come in after the sacrifice has been appointed days of Samuel didn't come.

Instruction to wait with Samuels instruction. It wasn't God's instruction.

but, you know, The Lord doesn't allow us a few words to fall to the ground but don't come from God. Struction Samuel, no Commandment that has been broken nor can we construe on the Commandment that seems to be broken, is Thou shalt not bad.

The consequences for sale at number for this Kingdom and not continue. Saw the cleaner, Samuel declared the ending of Sword Dynasty verses 13 and 14, the Lord forever, but now your kingdom. Continue. Most commentators think and I agree that this probably means that sold will continue to be king, but he will not have a dynasty, so Jonathan will not be getting a new Dynasty replace him. So is this really a word from the Lord? Or is this just a word that God now is committed to support? But more importantly, Does Samuel assume automatically that anything he says is a word from the Lord.

No religious leader believed that does, he ha ha ha they come from God's very dangerous. I've had friends who've been in church, is like that if I did leave for their own Mental Health, So, how do we answer that question, right? It's clear. That Samuels words, have immense power to bless or to curse because the narrator indicated. God, what is the word of the prophet? Show me a granite verse. 14 makes an additional comment. Which I feel is extemporaneous to me. So he said the Lord would have established your kingdom forever but now you're not continue.

Extemporaneous coming. Did you start a man of his own heart and disappointed in to be ruler over the people?

God doesn't ask you to reject Saul from the King to chapter 15. And Sandra doesn't even know who the replacement is in chapter 16th. When Samuel goes to Bethlehem to look at the sons of Jesse, the oldest comes before. This is surely the Lord the Lord and doesn't know I'm doing this. Why don't I tell you? That is the first time God stops Samuel in his tracks and she's all right now. It's gone far enough. You're messed up so I'm not going to have you mess up anybody else? I'm not going to let you do anything you want. So stop your word. Now it's not going to happen. If God was supporting every word as still as. I mean, that's the one, that's not the one. I don't want this one Waits on me. So interesting. so even if Samuels instructions and condemnation of so did not originate with God, Takes the words are coming from God because he cannot distinguish God from the prophet. Yahweh is Samuel's, God.

And the rest serious consequences for taking some of those words as the word of the Lord here. Because what he does next is he overcompensates for having done something wrong. I'm not quite sure what it is, like, trying to show his very stringent and obeying God and totally dedicated to the Lord. And that's the Fallout 4. Jonathan does a battle for the Philistines going on. Jonathan at the daring plan. He's going to take his armor Bearer or they're going to go up the hill going to talk the Philistine Garrison. They do it cause the 20 people to die under the chaos going on, and the panic in the camp. And so sends his soldiers, fight them to fight. He doesn't know Jonathan was there. And the Philistines I wrote it, I didn't disappoint to know so it makes a rash both. Delays and hoes on the troops to fast until the battle is over in Route 24. Now, the men of Israel were hard-pressed that day. And so later northern troops, saying cursive anyone, who eats food before it is evening, and I have an event on my enemies. So none of the truth, tasted food. Jonathan annoying because he has won the Rhone brakes deals. The troops came up on a honeycomb, and it doesn't even tripping out. And the truth didn't touch it because they had feared the old for Jonathan had known of it. So he took some of his. Put it in his eyes brightened and it's gorgeous. As you know, your father has charged us think cursing is anyone who eats food this day but the troops are faint. Jonathan has troubled the land. Look at my eyes brighten by using a little bit of honey. How much better if the troops had anything today?

On this particular enemies.

And as a consequence of this is .3, the troops are so hungry that they eat it with the blood in it. Contravening, levitical law, don't eat the food in blood means even

And it was reported to Seoul. Look at you just sitting against the Lord by eating with the blood. Install brings resolution to this by saying, let's bring the spoiled Slaughter, the animals properly drain all the blood and you can eat now. But the troops have gone against Toro because of saws. Rash oath. but, worse than that, there's another consequence point for

They make an inquiry from the ephod soul and its priests, but God doesn't respond. And so I figured out that it's been a problem. So now they cast lots and lots to find out who send And Jonathan and Saul was set against all the people and the lot Fallon. Jonathan then the lot fell between Jonathan and Saul and Jonathan and Jonathan, and yep. I did taste some money because of my stuff here. I am I ready to die and so it says God do so to me and more also they are also not quite sure what it means with an oath You shall surely die, Jonathan that you can run some somebody from Death if you want, but he is so over. Compensating field in some ways, he doesn't think he can actually do that. So, the troops have to say, look, Jonathan accomplish this great victory for us. Not a hair of his head with Paris today and the troops ran some Jonathan. Thank God. So, what's the upshot of 1st Samuel 14? It looks to me like Samuels condemnation of sore which is an unjustified condemnation. The narrator makes a clear Soul waiting in 7 days and we don't know what else he was disobeying besides that. This condemnation triggered saws over compensation to prove the dedication to God. And that led to the Troops breaking levitical law and nearly needs to the death of his own son.

What are we to think about Samuel's? Use of the prophetic office, to speak words of condemnation? To the people in chapter 12 getting them to admit, they're saying after the King has been installed, And speaking words of condemnation to stall throwing and totally off balance. So that he becomes unbalanced later on. Does Samuel actually speak a word from God?

In the enemy, speaks a word of God because God supports his word. But I don't think it's from God.

What sort of prophet is he? Prophet in the Bible, do two things. It's either one of judgment or of Salvation. And when is the word of judgement, many of the prophets, not on Moses. Does it. Jeremiah does it a number of Minor Prophets? Do it to return back to God and say Lord give them time to repent, hold off. The Judgment the interest for the people forgive them is really. So small is Amos. How can they suffer like this? Be merciful in your grasp show. Mercy.

What's Samuel is a prophet who only brings judgement never Oracles of Salvation and never interested on behalf of the people that we're going to see that there is nowhere. From that point on that he ever does pray for them. The only time he prays is that Lord brings a storm and destroy the crops. Show a profit to stand on the side of the Lord, bring the word, but a profit should also stand on the side of the people that they be merciful to them. A prophet has to be in both camps and a true Christian leader has to be in both camps but Samuel is only one Camp is identified with the Lord so much so that you bring the only judgment upon the people and the console All right. Now we have time for two and a

yes, deep breath. By the way young people. I'm glad you're here. This is and I pray that this stinks deep in your spirit becomes part of your discernment as you go forward. In Jesus name, an experience different kinds of congregations and those of us who are older and live longer is a lot of painful, results of the truth that emerges from reading this narrative and that is the, I know, you know what I mean? So we'll start here. I saw this hand first. Okay, thank you for coming to teach others. I have to question. The first is Why does God back Samuel? If he is going pretty much against, but God told him and the second question is, first Samuel 16. God has to tell Samuel to stop crying over Saul, Saul will be answered in my third presentation but I can I can touch on them just a little bit to give you a hint. So

God backs Samuel because he wants to have a firm front against demonic. If it is to come in case, there is an abuse of power that I probably could really speak God's will.

God is not a macro manager. In any way God, give us a significant Freedom. The sovereignty of God does not mean that we have no free choice. And Samuel has free choice to not fully and bodyguards purposes even though God has called into that. So that's a problem. We're going to find that guy changes now and stops Samuel having that kind of power over any other king set that becomes very clear.

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Rite Rite, Motel. When twins are two, things happened in chapter 15 to get to and you know the details in a text you can read them in different ways cuz the narrative it doesn't tell you what it means. You must as a reader must discern. How does it fit into the overall story? And depending what you think the story is about, you can read the details differently. So at the end of the story, he Mourns oversold, haven't been rejected. And when God first cousin that he has repented us all being King earlier on his story verse 11, Samuel is angry and cry all night. So what's going on with our emotional response and some people safe? Because he really cares for different reasons with the way this story has been unfolding Where do I anticipate? Okay.

Samuel Samuel served. Under Alliance and in the Priestly brothers. And but later on in here, it seems like a minor couple sentences and 14. Did they name the priesthood? But the story revolves around Samuel. But is there any historical things going on the show? How the priesthood is still continue. The priests are still continuing. We doesn't pop up until David made reconstructing. The history of the priesthood is very difficult cuz you only have glimpses in the Bible and it's not always very consistent. We don't know what's going on. But what was very interesting is all the priest to come in the book of Samuel are still in the line of Eli. But you know, God has a line of Eli's over. He is so merciful he let Eli continue as a priest, to Mentor, Samuel and come later on. Is that Arkansas still in the line of Eli the way, Samuel prophetic tradition Because of the monarchy.

Raise a hand. Any of our young people? There was a hand back there from the beginning. Did you ever find a good? Got it. I'll come back. I'll Circle back around someone else. That's my question. Excellent, great minds thinking alike here. Yes. You know, anybody or anything about who? It who wrote the books of first? We really don't know about who wrote or Testament books and people claim to know, conservative Christians, have certain claims liberal Christians. Are they claim? They're all going over there. They're just talking to her hat. We don't know the authority of scripture in the Bible does not depend on knowing who wrote the books. It comes from God. Hey, well, thank you for coming in, dr. Middleton, I'm having an absolute blast but I do work. I asked for some clarification, going back to 12:6, I'm right. As I am reading the text and I'm the Lord, through our end spoke Samuel to the people. The Lord is witness, Uber, I made Moses and Aaron. And who brought up your father's from the land of Egypt. I'm struggling to see where you're at. Where you're seeing a deliberate omission. Joshua in bringing them, and bringing the people into the land of Canaan, it's later. Okay, I don't have that text right in front of me, here, I should have brought it with me. That's, that's all right. His mom answered the question of family here. It's a wholesale and made the first and made them dwell in this place. Okay. Otherwise who were thinking the same thing, but you're too shy to ask, okay? Thank that Samuel. Remember Deuteronomy 17 verses 14 through 20. The laws of the king, were the very first? Yes. Before verse 14, says, they will ask for a king. Do you think he even remembered that? Or was he trying to ignore that? What kind of questions did the historical Samuel? Remember that this request? When did the author of Samuel? Remember that and have Sammy. Don't forget it anyway, portrays it. So I don't know cuz what we don't, we don't have the actual events behind the store. We have the characterization of the story as it is and the text is what inspired not the events behind it. So this particular retelling of the story of Samuel is inspired retailing, has inspired retailing Samuel, ignores it, where he remembered it and then suppressed it or just ignored it. I don't know. But Batista only a worst-case scenario.

So Richard I'm going to make a couple comments, interact with you as well, did not miss all your questions. But to to my takeaways is the first and I've had the same conversation with some of you, you know, there are some initial resistance, to the way we have spiritually been taught Samuel as he's classically, the good guy that the spiritual one and solves the bad guy. So when it one of my takeaways is this, this is this is actually made it very human, this is something more relatable for me, cuz I've seen it in myself and I've experienced it in in certain institutions and organizations in whatever. So, my first is an observation, I think it really meet with a little resistance it first because of some dear, some cherished Vision in our head but it also really humanizes. It makes it more accessible and both install and Samuel. Second observation is it seems like Samuel had a big part in shaping Saul's view of God. If that's a powerful thing. Look up a comment about that. You have to undo last point. That there is a book at someone's dissertation. He was brought up in Eastern Europe, in what country. I can't remember. And he was a youth pastor, and you are a PhD dissertation call three seasons of charismatic leadership, and it did involve part of it, the Samuels, call David stories and he said in Eastern Europe, where I grew up. Are you supposed to be very careful to find some degree of autonomy from the senior pastor cuz they were absolutely control everything you do. And says, I've been read the story and I understood exactly what was going on. Because Samuel was my senior pastor and I was told and this is why David refuses to have allow Samuel any control over him. So ever, he is totally independent. We learned, we must model David. And other things that you have to have a certain freedom of your own relation to God, to function, and you cannot simply be under someone else already whom idiot. God to you. The whole point of mediating guys presents. Another person is to empower them to have their own relationships but never develops that because of the way Samuel Twitter,

Do empathy for Saul.

Flawed certainly. But no. I don't want the defense though, so I don't know. Really missing out on a theme for the whole situation. Including correct, good. You guys get that car. We know he will go into if you're going to think they've likely have to think with two hand on the one and then on the other hand, Just an observation. I noticed it when Jesus was hanging on the cross. It's pilot that puts up the sign King of the Jews, and I just noticed that connection back to the feelings of Samuel that God is King. And that it took a gentile pilot to actually build a sign and post it on. Jesus saying, this man is King of the Jews.

One of my next books is on the first two chapters of Matthew, and I would draw is on the Old Testament and in every quotation of the Old Testament in the fur in the infancy, narratives of Matthew. And also in the genealogy of Jesus in every reference, Jesus is distinguished from Pagan rulers and Jewish rulers, including David, as he is a different kind of ruler in the next few years. Before it's available for you to test drive in information, just a little, put that little seed in there, all right.

Questions, clarification. Joshua's Minds working.

My brother. If we are thinking about the difference is, I mean, recapitulate. Never mind how I saw in Samuel's relationship are to each other. So it's not all that. It reminds me of how someone else thought about the comparison between Saul and David. Because we always think about saw was a bad King David as a good King and they point out that there's many parallels along their lives, that they're almost identical in the way their hot-headed and stuff and how their lives turned out differently. And with this new information, it would be interesting to think about it, feeds into that narrative. So I'm going to touch on this all day with nothing in my third presentation. Just touch on it a little bit, but I told the publisher of this book, I said I'm not writing a commentary on 1st 2nd Samuel, it's too big but if this book works and you want to part 2, Complicit portrait of a disgruntled profit, you want pork out of the outlaw King. Let's get the 16231. And then if you want a third one, the rise and fall of David in the monarchy. I'll do a third one on 2nd Samuel, but let's see. I don't I'm not promising that yet but I do. I'm interested in it. Very good. Okay good.

Is there, I think part of your lecture series might have also been titled. The Leadership Lessons of bumps. All end and Samuel United States. Air Force has a leadership school for young officers called Squadron Officer school. And part of the curriculum, is they see the movie 12 High which has a benevolent commander who really looks out for his people? And it is he wants to be a, he wants to be pleased and want to be popular, which is one of the, since it's all falls into. And then there's the hard. I don't want to say hi. And says this is what the rules are working to the rules and want to do it the right way. And yet later on falls in love with his people too. So it's a, it's a nice contrast if you ever never see if you never seem to thank you very much, very much. What, what's the new that you're talkin about?