"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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The Lord's Anointed?

"And the Lord will repay each man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered you into my hand today, but I refused to stretch out my hand against the Lord's anointed”. (1 Sam. 26:23)

So what that Benny Hinn communes with the dead? “Don't touch God's anointed!”

So what that Oral Roberts said God would kill him if he didn't raise seven or eight million? “Don't touch God's anointed!”

David did not touch Saul because he was God's anointed, but did God ever stopped Samuel or David from telling the truth about Saul? The verse is not even concerned with what they are talking about.

"Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him [Jesus] both Lord and Christ – this Jesus whom you crucified" (Acts 2:36).

“Christ” in Greek is ho christos, in Hebrew is hamashiach, and in both languages means literally “the anointed one”. There is only ONE “anointed one” in Scripture and that is Jesus.

Prophets, Priests, and Kings - Types of Christ

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Coming down upon the beard,
Even Aaron's beard,
Coming down upon the edge of his robes. (Psalm 133:1-2)

Aaron, the high priest, was an Old Testament type of Jesus. He was anointed – the oil was poured on his head, then it ran off onto his body.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church (Ephesians 5:23).

We are the Body of Christ. To be “anointed”, we must be attached to the body and under the head. Jesus is the anointed one. We have no anointing, except under his headship, as members of the body. These people proclaiming themselves to be “anointed” are not attached to the body and they are not under the headship of Christ.

Before Jesus was anointed for power, for dominion, for victory, Jesus was anointed for burial. Before anyone is anointed for ministry, they are first anointed for burial. Paul said the proof of his anointing was not that he did miracles, signs and wonders, or that he planted churches or that he wrote half the New Testament.

Rather, I bear on my body the brandmarks of Jesus (Gal. 6:17).

Always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body (2 Cori. 4:10).

Because he was anointed for burial, God could anoint Paul for power.

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