{"id":2482,"date":"2022-07-22T08:27:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2022-07-22T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:27:16","slug":"ephesians-612-and-1st-samuel-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 6:12 and 1st Samuel 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar-container\"><div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ephesians 6:12 and 1st Samuel 30\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WKwH9jKqzAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WKwH9jKqzAA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WKwH9jKqzAA<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar\" style=\"color: #ffffff;background-color: #1b1b1b;\">\n\t\t\t<div>Please consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t<iframe\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscribe_embed?usegapi=1&amp;channelid=UCAxkC8h9g4fhxldTECUgIsg&amp;layout=default&amp;theme=default&amp;count=default&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ephesians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WKwH9jKqzAA&amp;t=372s\">6:12<\/a> For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 1st Samuel 30 1-3Three days later, David and his men arrived back in Ziklag. Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They tore Ziklag to pieces and then burned it down. They captured all the women, young and old. They didn\u2019t kill anyone, but drove them like a herd of cattle. By the time David and his men entered the village, it had been burned to the ground, and their wives, sons, and daughters all taken prisoner. 4-6a David and his men burst out in loud wails\u2014wept and wept until they were exhausted with weeping. David\u2019s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken prisoner along with the rest. And suddenly David was in even worse trouble. There was talk among the men, bitter over the loss of their families, of stoning him. 6b-7 David strengthened himself with trust in his God. He ordered Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, \u201cBring me the Ephod so I can consult God.\u201d Abiathar brought it to David. 8Then David prayed to God, \u201cShall I go after these raiders? Can I catch them?\u201d The answer came, \u201cGo after them! Yes, you\u2019ll catch them! Yes, you\u2019ll make the rescue!\u201d 9-10David went, he and the six hundred men with him. They arrived at the Brook Besor, where some of them dropped out. David and four hundred men kept up the pursuit, but two hundred of them were too fatigued to cross the Brook Besor, and stayed there. 11-12Some who went on came across an Egyptian in a field and took him to David. They gave him bread and he ate. And he drank some water. They gave him a piece of fig cake and a couple of raisin muffins. Life began to revive in him. He hadn\u2019t eaten or drunk a thing for three days and nights! 13-14David said to him, \u201cWho do you belong to? Where are you from?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m an Egyptian slave of an Amalekite,\u201d he said. \u201cMy master walked off and left me when I got sick\u2014that was three days ago. We had raided the Negev of the Kerethites, of Judah, and of Caleb. Ziklag we burned.\u201d 15David asked him, \u201cCan you take us to the raiders?\u201d \u201cPromise me by God,\u201d he said, \u201cthat you won\u2019t kill me or turn me over to my old master, and I\u2019ll take you straight to the raiders.\u201d 16He led David to them. They were scattered all over the place, eating and drinking, gorging themselves on all the loot they had plundered from Philistia and Judah. 17-20David pounced. He fought them from before sunrise until evening of the next day. None got away except for four hundred of the younger men who escaped by riding off on camels. David rescued everything the Amalekites had taken. And he rescued his two wives! Nothing and no one was missing\u2014young or old, son or daughter, plunder or whatever. David recovered the whole lot. He herded the sheep and cattle before them, and they all shouted, \u201cDavid\u2019s plunder!\u201d 21Then David came to the two hundred who had been too tired to continue with him and had dropped out at the Brook Besor. They came out to welcome David and his band. As he came near he called out, \u201cSuccess!\u201d 22But all the mean-spirited men who had marched with David, the rabble element, objected: \u201cThey didn\u2019t help in the rescue, they don\u2019t get any of the plunder we recovered. Each man can have his wife and children, but that\u2019s it. Take them and go!\u201d 23-25\u201cFamilies don\u2019t do this sort of thing! Oh no, my brothers!\u201d said David as he broke up the argument. \u201cYou can\u2019t act this way with what God gave us! God kept us safe. He handed over the raiders who attacked us. Who would ever listen to this kind of talk? The share of the one who stays with the gear is the share of the one who fights\u2014equal shares. Share and share alike!\u201d From that day on, David made that the rule in Israel\u2014and it still is. 26-31On returning to Ziklag, David sent portions of the plunder to the elders of Judah, his neighbors, with a note saying, \u201cA gift from the plunder of God\u2019s enemies!\u201d He sent them to the elders in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, Jerahmeelite cities, Kenite cities, Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athach, and Hebron, along with a number of other places David and his men went to from time to time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDlPbWwxRXo5R2VYemJ0Nl9uanFwa3Zfd0J6d3xBQ3Jtc0trZmZLOUp5RUUzQmUtRnRkV2NsLU1CVEhWNDdUUVNtb0M3UWhPeUlfc2NuNVFNT0w4SGJiV2d1V1RuTjJud1l0dFRNVkd6dXdlOTBJTjZXYnRobXY5bm54SUJxSnpoTXo5Vk1ua3FrYmVCUjNBREJ3WQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F&amp;v=WKwH9jKqzAA\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/temtube.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 1st Samuel 30 1-3Three days later, David and his men arrived back in Ziklag. 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