Bible Studies

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God didn't launch the stone-dj eckert

I've often contemplated my OWN part of fighting the evil that bombards our world everyday.

I'd wonder where exactly does my hand end? Lord, and where does Your hand begin ?

After all we as Christians are constantly told " trust in the Lord" and " HE will fight your battles" these ideas are certainly true, but when it comes to practicality, How exactly do we do this?
Having prayed lately for the Lord to give me some clarity on this issue, I feel He came through again wonderfully with an illustration that works both literally and figuratively.

He shows us this answer beautifully in the Life of a young David, when he "fought" Goliath.
After hearing a quote from a young radio host
"Truth seeker" say something like: "when a bad guy is doing something evil, It's up to a good guy to stand up against him " this idea immediately turned my thoughts towards David standing up against the Phillistine Giant Goliath, who had been, defiantly taunting ,tormenting and ridiculing the Israelites and their God. A young David who was very reliant upon the Lord stood up to the lurking menace and told him that God WAS in fact going to strike him down.

The answer to this quandry is SO SIMPLE:
Did David then sit back and let God strike Goliath down? NO, of course he DID NOT. It required action from his own hand. David picked up the rock in THIS physical realm and he launched the stone towards Goliath. Now, believing that that stone was Divinely guided in the Spritual realm ( I'm sure most believe it was) , THAT is where God's hand begins,and our own faith filled hands end.

So Goliath*, consider ye warned!


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Many Bible scholars believe that Goliath the Giant was indicative of the Giants and nephilim as referred to in Genesis chapter 6. These nephilim are ,many believe ,the result of a "genetic(DNA) tinkering" of man by the fallen angels ( the sons of God). And the reason for the purifying flood.
"This chapter(Gen 6) might be the most pivotal and enlightening chapter of the WHOLE Bible when it comes to truly understanding it as a whole." (my paraphrase of Biblical scholar and teacher Dr. Chuck Missler)
Here is a great article that shows how " the sethite view" that explains away as fallen angels" the sons of God" in gen ch 6 , how it throughout history not only occludes the Truth, but it is also wrong:
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1997/110


http://bible.com/100/gen.6.4.nasb The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

THIS EVIL,
For whatever reason ( the Bible even says this: " the Nephilim were on the earth in those days ,and ALSO AFTERWARD" this creature ...Goliath, and his defiant, menacing spirit that torments Gods people, is THE EXACT SAME spirit of evilness that we still battle to this day.

THIS is is why I warn about the " as in the time of Noah" transhumanist zombie,newly formed creature in Matthew 24:37 NIV:
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

This is also why my hand launches these " Truth stones" faithfully . Now whether they hit their mark ( the perverted creatures' brains ) or not ,well that is up to the Lord. ( this is not a perfect analogy because ,praise God ,the new zombie creature STILL has a chance to repent.)

I find it interesting that in the David and Goliath story ,that David's older brother ( the older brothers in Christ's "church" perhaps?), thought of David as conceited, and probably because he didn't understand him, he called David wicked)
http://bible.com/111/1sa.17.28-29.niv When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.” “Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even speak?” (wow!)

Please don't think me (and others who have this same kind of understanding) as conceited. I am not calling myself a David, but what I am saying is that idiomatically THIS verse speaks greatly to the blindness (and deafness) of the modern church to the REAL spiritual battle that it faces.
Maybe the modern church should ask ITSELF " with Whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness?"

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