"House of David/House of Saul"

by James Jacob Prasch

The kind of war I dread is when you have to fight against your brethren.

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A Faithful Shepherd

So Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you. And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind (1 Sam.15:28).

And He has still not changed his mind.

When the house of Saul goes wrong, God begins to build the house of David. God began teaching David from the time he was a little boy. God trains people for the extraordinary in the ordinary. How was David able to kill Goliath? When he was a shepherd boy, he went around with his slingshot killing wolves that attacked the sheep. A faithful shepherd (the same word in Hebrew as “pastor”), will be given more responsibility by God. For some of these men today, the sheep merely represent stepping stones for advancement on the speaking circuit.

The first lesson David learned was not to wear Saul's armor. Those who will be in the house of David have to learn the same lesson. You cannot wear Saul's armor, it is too cumbersome.

Hearing from God

Now it came about in those days that the Philistines gathered their armed camps for war to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the camp, you and your men." And David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." So Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life."

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him and buried him in Ramah his own city. And Saul had removed from the land those who were mediums and spiritists. So the Philistines gathered together and came and camped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together and they camped in Gilboa. When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly. When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim nor by prophets. Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said, "Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at Endor" (1 Samuel 28:1-7).

Listening to Witches

Saul stopped hearing from the Lord. Today the Charismatic leaders are really afraid. Why were Wimber, Paul Cain and Gerald Coates wrong? They talk big, but they are afraid. They know their own track record. They know they have been around thirty years and things have gone from bad to worse, and from worse to worse yet. That is why they need one gimmick after another like the “laughing revival” to keep people unknowing as to what is really going on.

These people stopped hearing from the Lord a long time ago. Benny Hinn said that he goes to the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, to commune with the dead. He gets his “anointing” off the dead bodies of Aimee McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman.

When you do not hear from the Lord, you go to witches. That is what happened then, and that is what is happening today.

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