From my Bible study with the Holy Spirit: 9-10-16, Elul 14 2016, 1 Chronicles 17-22

From my Bible study with the Holy Spirit: 9-10-16, Elul 14 2016

1 Chronicles 17-22

1 Chronicles 17:4-17: The Lord is talking about Jesus not Solomon. Jesus is the seed of David whose Kingdom has been established forever. The Lord never told us to build Him a house because He wanted to go from tent to tent and from one tabernacle to another. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The Lord tabernacles inside of us. We are His tent. We make up His house and His body.

This references 2 Samuel 7. The Lord tells David in 2 Samuel that if his seed sins, then the Lord will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows from the sons of men. The Lord uses others to chastise us so check your pride.

1 Chronicles 19:12-13: We should be doing what Abishai and Joab did. They worked together and had each other’s back. If one was in trouble then the other would come running when they were surrounded by the enemy.

1 Chronicles 21:14-30: Why do we thresh wheat? Is it to separate the wheat from the chaff? The wheat is beaten to remove what is not needed. Then it is sifted. When The Lord sent an angel to punish King David, He killed 70,000 men. David put himself at the mercy of the Lord because he would rather deal with The Lord than with men. King David told The Lord to hold him and his father’s house guilty instead of his sheep (this sounds a lot like Moses). Consequently, at the threshing floor, King David bought the threshing floor, meat, wood, and wheat to sacrifice to The Lord. He sacrificed to The Lord at the threshing floor because that’s where they all saw the angel of the Lord between Heaven and Earth. He was standing there between Heaven and Earth waiting for the Lord’s command after the Lord told Him to stop killing. So King David built an altar there at the threshing floor, and sacrificed to our Lord God of Israel. I find it interesting that when everyone saw the angel of the Lord between Heaven and Earth, Onan kept threshing wheat while his sons ran and hid.

If we have anything else other than a pure offering for the Lord, He will make sure that we are separated from the chaff or sin in our hearts. King David angered the Lord because he called for a census of Israel out of fear. The Bible says that Satan moved him so King David numbered Israel but ignored Levi and Benjamin.

When we do something out of fear, other people are affected by it. Also, as followers of Christ, others see how we react during trying times. We cannot be representatives of the Kingdom of Heaven and operate in fear at the same time. Jesus Christ doesn’t give us a spirit of fear. He bought and paid for your life and sacrificed His so we can be free from fear. Jesus Christ was the seed of King David. I’d say that the Lord really did visit King David’s iniquity on his house. Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price on the threshing floor. He was beaten and by His stripes we are healed.

1 Chronicles 22:3-4: Was Jesus Christ hung on a cross made of cedar wood? Right after sacrificing to God on the threshing floor, King David gets iron for the nails to the doors and joints, cedar wood, and bronze for the temple of YHWH. Was the temple of YHWH built on the threshing floor? Jesus Christ was and is the true temple of YHWH. “Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” John 2:19

When I first started to read the Bible, before I was sealed with the Holy Spirit, about 9 years ago, I couldn’t read it. It was too violent for me. I would go and watch scary, violent, bloody movies, but when it came to the Word of God, I couldn’t understand why there would be so much war. In 1 Chronicles 22:8 we see just how much God does not delight in bloodshed. It is humanity that communicates through bloodshed. The Lord didn’t want King David to build Him a temple because King David had shed too much blood. King Solomon was a better fit because he was a King of rest and peace. God is telling us what He delights in right here. He is peace and comfort, not war and bloodshed. However, peace doesn’t come without war. There would have been no rest from our enemies if we wouldn’t have fought with the Lord our God on our side.

1 Chronicles 22:13: Obey the Lord’s commands, statutes, and judgments which the Lord gave Moses and you will prosper. Do not fear nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage in order to obey the Lord’s statutes that He gave Moses. This is still pertinent today. The prophets of the Bible all lamented that Israel had stopped obeying the Lord’s commands. Jesus Christ tells us the the prophets talked about Him. Since we know that Jesus Christ is the Word of the Lord made flesh, we also know that Jesus Christ obeyed His Father’s commands that He gave to Moses. Easter eggs are not in the Bible but Christmas trees are. Jeremiah talks about how the Christmas trees are an abomination to the Lord our God. Some people call themselves followers of Christ and they put Santa on top of their pagan tree. Having pictures and things of angels isn’t good either. There have been many false prophets and false teachers sent into the world. Make sure that you are doing exactly what Jesus Christ did. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread to remember Him. ““Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so that it will not topple.” Jeremiah 10:3-4 Don’t you think it’s interesting that the world has you convinced that Babylonian practices from before Christ are connected to the Lord God Almighty? God tells us over and over not to do what they do. He gives us our own feasts and they all revolve around him. There is no confusing Easter eggs with Jesus Christ because the Feast of Unleavened Bread is all about Him. Do the opposite of what this world does. There is no excuse.