AT THE END OF LAST CHAPTER THE PHILISTINES HAD BROUGHT THEIR DEITIES WITH THEM INTO BATTLE (JUST AS THE YISHARALITES HAD BROUGHT THE ARK OF THE BLOOD-COVENANT INTO BATTLE MANY YEARS EARLIER). THE PHILISTINES’ IDOLS WERE CAPTURED AND BURNT UP (AT DAVID’S ORDER), JUST AS THE ARK WAS LOST FOR A TIME TO THE PHILISTINES UPON YISHARAL’S DEFEAT (THOSE MANY DECADES AGO).
NOW, CHAPTER 6 FOCUSES ON THE ARK AND THE STORY OF DAVID’S ATTEMPT TO MAKE YERUSHALIM NOT ONLY YISHARAL’S POLITICAL CAPITAL BUT ITS SPIRITUAL CAPITAL AS WELL.
ABOUT 70 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE ARK OF THE BLOOD-COVENANT RESTED IN THE MOST SET-APART PLACE IN THE TABERNACLE, AS IT SHOULD (ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS YAHUAH GAVE ON MT. SINAI). NOW THAT YISHARAL WAS FINALLY UNITED IN A POLITICAL WAY (NOT SEEN SINCE THOSE 40 YEARS OF WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS) IT WAS TIME TO RESTORE THE ANCIENT WORSHIP OF YISHARAL (IE `GET YAHUAH BACK INTO THE CAMP') THAT HAD SO SADLY BECOME PERVERTED (AND NOW NEARLY FORGOTTEN) FROM THE MOMENT YISHARAL’S COLLECTIVE FEET TOUCHED THE WATERS OF THE JORDAN RIVER AT JOSHUA’S LEADING.
THIS COULD ONLY HAPPEN WHEN THE PHILISTINES WERE SUBDUED, AND WHEN THE PLACE WHERE YAHUAH CHOSE FOR HIS NAME TO DWELL ON EARTH CAME UNDER YISHARALITE CONTROL: YERUSHALIM - YAHUAH WANTED THIS PLACE TO DWELL AMONGST HIS PEOPLE (YERUSHALIM HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SHADOW OF THIS FACT).
THIS IS WHY WE SEE SUCH POLLUTED BEHAVIOUR HERE IN SAMUEL (BEHAVIOUR THAT PEOPLE WOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH BACK IN MOSES' TIME) - BECAUSE YAHUAH WAS NOT THERE (MANIFESTING ANYWAY), HE BARELY SPOKE TO ANYONE AND SO WITHOUT HIM THERE IS NO BLESSING, BUT ALSO, DARKNESS CAN EXIST AND PEOPLE CAN LIVE HOWEVER THEY CHOOSE. BECAUSE WHEN THE LIGHT OF YAHUAH IS AMONG HIS PEOPLE - NO BEHAVIOUR GOES UNPUNISHED. OBEDIENCE OR DIE!
YISHARAL (2 SAM.6) - Ark of the New Covenant
Once again David gathered the chosen men of Yisharal, some 30,000 (NOT CRACK MILITARY TROOPS BUT PEOPLE REPRESENTING ALL THE 12 TRIBES/SONS OF JACOB), and they went down to Baale-Judah to finally bring back the Ark of the Blood-Covenant Witness of the Living Alahim, called by the Name: Yahuah Tsabauth (Commander of Armies) Who is throned above the Cherubim on the Ark.
SINCE THE AIM WAS TO BRING BACK THE MOST DIVINE, SET-APART OBJECT THAT HAD EVER TOUCHED THIS PLANET, IT WAS APPROPRIATE THAT A SOLEMN PROCESSION (THAT REPRESENTED ALL YISHARAL) WAS CONVENED TO ACCOMPANY THE ARK.
So they carried the Ark of Yahuah on a new cart from the house of Abinadab on the hill where it had rested, and Abinadab’s sons Uzzah and Ahio directed the new cart, with Ahio walking in front of the Ark. David and all the Yisharalites celebrated before Yahuah, accompanied by wooden lyres and harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.
ABINADAB MAY HAVE BEEN A PRIEST, BUT THE REALITY IS THAT THE DIVINELY ESTABLISHED STRUCTURE OF THE VARIOUS OFFICES AND DUTIES OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES HAD BECOME SO BLURRED, MIXED, AND APPLIED SO WILLY-NILLY FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, IT’S HARD TO KNOW WITH ANY CERTAINTY.
A NEW CART?? THERE WERE A WHOLE HOST OF ERRORS BEING COMMITTED (ON DAVID’S PART). TO BEGIN WITH, THE ARK SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PLACED IN AN OXCART (NEW OR OTHERWISE), FOR THE TURAH IS QUITE SPECIFIC THAT NOT ONLY SHOULD THE ARK BE CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF LEVITES OF THE CLAN OF KOHATH (NUM 4:15, 7:8). SO WHERE IN THE WORLD WOULD DAVID, OR UZZAH AND AHIO (LEVITES OR PERHAPS PRIESTS) GET THE IDEA, THEN, THAT THE PROPER AND SOLEMN WAY TO BRING THE ARK TO THE YISHARALITE CAPITAL WAS IN A NEW OXCART? ANSWER: FROM PAGANS. REMEMBER WHEN THE PHILISTINES FINALLY BROUGHT THE ARK BACK, SENDING IT HOME ON A NEW OXCART?
SO THESE LEVITES WHO WERE TO ACCOMPANY THE ARK ON BEHALF OF KING DAVID (AND WHOSE DUTY IT WAS TO NOT JUST KNOW THE TURAH BUT TO TEACH IT) HAD NO IDEA HOW TO TREAT IT, WHICH MEANS THEY HAD LITTLE TO NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW OF MOSES. SO WHEN (70 YEARS AFTER FIRST RECEIVING THE ARK BACK FROM THE PHILISTINES) THE TIME CAME TO MOVE THE ARK TO `THE CITY OF DAVID' IT APPARENTLY WAS ASSUMED THAT THE RIGHT THING TO DO WAS TO TRANSFER IT THERE IN THE SAME MANNER AS IT WAS BROUGHT TO THEM: BY MEANS OF AN OXCART. AND THEY FIGURED THAT IT MUST BE A NEW CART THAT HAD NEVER BEEN USED BECAUSE THAT HAD A NICE PIOUS RING TO IT. HOW EASILY WE RECOGNISE THE CORRUPTION OF YAHUAH’S LAWS AMONG THE HEBREWS OF THIS ERAS AND HOW QUICKLY WE CONDEMN THEM FOR IT. AND HOW EQUALLY EASILY THE MODERN-DAY BRIDE (HALF OF WHICH ARE FOOLISH AND STUPID) CHOOSE TO TURN A DISINTERESTED EYE TOWARDS YAHUAH’S INSTRUCTIONS AND HOW QUICKLY WE EXCUSE OR RATIONALISE AWAY OUR OWN LUKEWARM, WICKED, WORLDY BEHAVIOURS, FORBIDDEN BY YAHUSHA.
And when they came alongside the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, causing the Cart to tip, and so Uzzah put out his hand to steady the Ark of Yahuah and stop it from falling onto the ground. And Yahuah burned with anger against Uzzah, and struck him dead on the spot for daring to touch the Divine Ark of His Blood-Covenant Witness.
WOW - THAT SEEMS A BIT HARSH! WHAT'S THAT ABOUT? THIS WHOLE PROCEEDURE HAD NOTHING GOING FOR IT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY WAS THE ARK PUT ON A COMMON OXCART, THE WHOLE ATTITUDES OF ALL INVOLVED WAS COMPLETELY WRONG. LOOK AT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE HEBREW WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE THIS 1ST ATTEMPT VS THE 2ND ONE THAT WENT MUCH BETTER.
1ST ATTEMPT: (2 SAM 6:5) “DAVID AND THE WHOLE HOUSE OF YISHARAL CELEBRATED IN THE PRESENCE OF YAHUAH” ….. THE KEY WORD IS “CELEBRATED”, WHICH IN HEBREW IS `SACHAQ', MEANING TO LAUGH, TO MOCK, TO MAKE MERRY, TO JEST AND TO GENERALLY JOKE AROUND IN A FRIVOLOUS MANNER.
TO TRANSLATE THIS WORD AS “CELEBRATE” OR "DANCING" ISN’T NECESSARILY WRONG, PROVIDED THE READER KNOWS THAT IT IS USED IN THE SENSE OF A PARTY ATMOSPHERE. SADLY SOME UNINSPIRED SCRIPTURE TRANSLATORS SO MISUNDERSTAND THIS WORD THAT THEY ATTACH IT TO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND SAY THAT THE HOUSE OF YISHARAL “PLAYED” (SACHAQ) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, WHICH THOROUGHLY DISTORTS THE MEANING.
2ND ATTEMPT: (2 SAM 6:12) “DAVID WENT AND JOYOUSLY BROUGHT THE ARK OF YAHUAH UP FROM THE HOUSE OF 'OBEDEDOM INTO THE CITY OF DAVID”. THE OPERATIVE WORD IN THIS PASSAGE IS “JOYOUSLY”, WHICH IN HEBREW IS `SIMCHAT', SPEAKING OF INNER JOY AND GLADNESS OF THE HEART. IT IS A SOBER AND RIGHTEOUS JOY, AS OPPOSED TO A RAUCOUS PARTY MOOD. SO THE SECOND ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT THE ARK WAS ACCOMPANIED WITH THE PROPER RESPECT FOR WHAT IT WAS.
DAVID, THE LEVITES, AND THE ELDERS OF YISHARAL ALL MADE THIS SAME GRAVE ERROR. THEIR CAVALIER ATTITUDE WAS THAT `AS LONG AS THEY INVOKED YAHUAH’S NAME THEN THEY COULD PROCEED AND BEHAVE ANY WAY THEY CHOSE (THINKING THAT THEY HAD FULL LIBERTY IN YAHUAH). THEY THOUGHT THAT AS LONG AS THEY ENJOYED THE OBSERVANCE AND FELT GOOD IN THEIR HEARTS ABOUT IT, YAHUAH WOULD APPROVE. EXCHANGING ATTENTION TO YAHUAH’S RADIOACTIVE SET-APARTNESS FOR THE PURSUIT OF THEIR OWN HAPPINESS IN FOLLOWING DEAD-TRADITIONS AND RITUALS (SHADOWS). THEY EVEN FIGURED THAT THE STRICTNESS OF THE LAW AND THE TURAH WERE FOR THEIR ANCESTORS, NOT THEIR CURRENT ERA.
KNOCK KNOCK - IS THE BRIDE LISTENING ??
!!! RADIOACTIVE SET-APARTNESS !!!
ASIDE FROM THE OXCART AND THEIR GENERAL BEHAVIOUR, THE 3RD AND MOST IMPORTANT ERROR THAT WAS MADE WAS MOSTLY UZZAH’S AND HE PAID FOR IT WITH HIS LIFE. THE SET-APART ARK IS NEVER TO BE TOUCHED WITH HUMAN HANDS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. METAL RINGS WERE FORMED INTO THE ARK SO THAT CARRYING POLES COULD BE INSERTED AND THESE WERE NOT TO BE REMOVED. THE ARK WAS TO BE COVERED IN CLOTH SO AS NOT TO BE VIEWED AND ALSO TO REMIND PEOPLE NOT TO TOUCH IT!
DON’T FORGET THE TURAH-PRINCIPLE THAT WE LEART IN LEVITICUS (OBVIOUSLY FORGOTTEN IN DAVID’S DAY AND ESPECIALLY TODAY): SET-APARTNESS IS TRANSFERABLE BY CONTACT (RADIOACTIVE/CONTAGIOUS). SET-APARTNESS AND UNCLEANLINESS ARE TRANSFERRED FROM PEOPLE TO OBJECTS, OBJECTS TO PEOPLE, AND SO ON. THIS ISN'T SUPERSTITION OR AN ABOLISHED PRINCIPLE EITHER. THERE ARE DEFINITE AND WELL-DEFINED LAWS IN THE TURAH ABOUT THE PROHIBITION OF ANYTHING SET-APART COMING INTO CONTACT WITH SOMETHING THAT IS NOT. WE ALSO GET SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR ALLOWING IT. IN NUMBERS 16 IS ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS EVENTS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE WILDERNESS JOURNEY OUT OF EGYPT WHEN A GROUP OF DISGRUNTLED MEN LED BY THE REBEL KORAH DECIDED THAT THEY HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT INSIDE THE TABERNACLE COMPOUND AS DOES YAHUAH’S PRIEST. AND SO THEY BROUGHT THEIR OWN PERSONAL FIRE PANS WITH THEM TO THE TABERNACLE. IT RESULTED IN TWO THINGS: THE FIRE PANS TOUCHED SET-APARTNESS AND SO THEY BECAME SET-APART, AND THE REBELS WERE KILLED.
THERE ARE TWO REMEDIES FOR SOMETHING THAT HAS ACCIDENTALLY BECOME SET-APART BY MEANS OF CONTACT WITH A SET-APART OBJECT: IT IS EITHER CONSECRATED FOR USE BY YAHUAH OR IT IS TO BE DESTROYED. BY TOUCHING THE IMMEASURABLY RADIOACTIVE SET-APART ARK OF YAHUAH, UZZAH INSTANTANEOUSLY CONTRACTED A MEASURE OF SET-APARTNESS FOR WHICH HE (AND NO ONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER) IS AUTHORISED; THEREFORE HE WAS DESTROYED (KILLED). SHOULD UZZAH HAVE ALLOWED THE ARK TO TUMBLE OUT OF THE CART AND ONTO THE GROUND AS AN ALTERNATIVE? THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES !!! (ASSUMING THAT YAHUAH PERMITTED THAT TO ACTUALLY HAPPEN).
THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE PRESUME TO TAKE POWERFUL DIVINE MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS, IN OUR OWN WAY. OUR GOOD INTENTIONS DON'T TRUMP YAHUAH’S PERFECTION - FOR HIS LIGHT WILL NEVER BE SOILED OR COMPROMISED BY ANY DARKNESS. HE WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE BEFORE THAT HAPPENS !!
IT DIDN’T MATTER UZZAH’S INTENTIONS - IF YOU STICK YOUR FINGER IN THE POWERPOINT (BY ACCIDENT OR NOT) YOU'LL BE ZAPPED !!
So don't just think today that because Yahusha died and legally cleansed you of all sin and death that this principle doesn't apply. His cleansing was just to allow Him to come close, open a portal and bridge dimensions again, however your behaviour can stop you from entering in and connecting. And (as we still see) consequences abound for disobedience and sinfulness, so don't be fooled!
And David was angry that Yahuah had `broken through' to strike Uzzah, so the place was named Perez-Uzzah, meaning “Breech against Uzzah,” to remember that act. David was also frightened of Yahuah that day, saying, “How can I be responsible for the Ark of Yahuah?”
UZZAH’S DEATH MADE DAVID “UPSET” (HEBREW: CHARAH- TO BE HOT AND ANGRY). AS WE’VE GOTTEN TO KNOW DAVID, A GOOD WORD WOULD BE “FRUSTRATED”. YAHUAH HAD APPARENTLY THROWN A SPANNER IN `HIS RIGHTEOUS PLAN’ AND HE KNEW HE COULD NOT POSSIBLY RISK BRINGING THE ARK INTO HIS PERSONAL COMPOUND, THE CITY OF DAVID, BECAUSE THE CAUSE OF YAHUAH’S FATAL OUTBURST WAS A TOTAL MYSTERY TO HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD LITTLE TO NO WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF THE TURAH (INSTRUCTIONS OF MOSES). IF DAVID KNEW THE LAW HE WOULD INSTANTLY HAVE KNOWN WHY UZZAH DIED BY TOUCHING THE ARK. AND IF THE LEVITES HAD KNOWN THE LAW THEY COULD HAVE EXPLAINED TO DAVID WHY UZZAH DIED AND THAT THIS NEED NOT REOCCUR. BUT SINCE IGNORANCE WAS RUNNING RAMPANT AT THE MOMENT, AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION WAS THE WISEST COURSE OF ACTION.
So David decided he didn’t want to take the Ark into the `City of David’, and he left it there in the care of Obededom, a man from the Philistine City of Gath. And the Ark of the Blood-Covenant Witness remained there for three months and in that time, Yahuah blessed the household and farms of Obededom the Gittite.
WHY DIDN’T DAVID FIRST BRING THE TABERNACLE TO JERUSALEM SO THAT THE ARK COULD THEN BE REUNITED WITH ITS YAHUAH-ESTABLISHED DWELLING PLACE? BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL TABERNACLE (A GRAND TENT MADE OF CLOTH AND ANIMAL SKINS) HAD LONG AGO WORN OUT. WE KNOW THAT IN ELI’S DAY, WHEN IT WAS LOCATED IN SHILOH, IT HAD BEEN HIGHLY REVAMPED AND ADDED ONTO, BUT SHILOH HAD BEEN BURNED OUT AND THE TABERNACLE LIKELY DESTROYED. IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER OR NOT WHATEVER FORM IT NOW HELD WAS EVEN PORTABLE. BUT THERE WAS ANOTHER AND MORE THORNY PROBLEM INVOLVED: THERE WERE AT THIS TIME (AT THE LEAST) TWO HIGH PRIESTS (REMEMBER THE PRIEST WARS BETWEEN AARON’S SONS) AND SO THERE WERE 2 INDEPENDENT SETS OF PRIESTHOODS, EACH WITH ITS OWN LOYAL FOLLOWING DIVIDED ALONG TRIBAL LINES. DAVID WAS IN PROCESS OF UNIFYING THE 12 TRIBES AND HAD TO FIND A POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION TO DETERMINING WHICH PRIESTHOOD WOULD PRESIDE. EACH SET OF PRIESTHOODS HAD SOME SORT OF SANCTUARY AND FURNISHINGS FOR IT, (SOME OF WHICH WERE UNDOUBTEDLY ORIGINAL AND OTHERS BEING REPLICAS). DAVID’S SOLUTION WAS TO NOT USE THE STALE, DEAD, RELIGIOUS SANCTUARIES (OR THE FURNISHINGS) OF EITHER PRIESTHOOD (AT LEAST NOT FOR NOW) - HE (THROUGH YAHUAH'S INSTRUCTION) WAS GOING TO DO A NEW THING WITH YAHUAH’S DIVINE PRESENCE, BUT HE NEEDED TO DO IT YAHUAH’S WAY, NOT HIS OWN!
So when news was taken to King David that Yahuah had blessed Obededom and all his household because of the Ark of Yahuah, the King went down and brought the Ark from Obededom’s house up to the `City of David’ joyously (WITH INNER REVERENT JOY, NOT A PARTY SPIRIT), SO WHEN WE PICTURE THE PROCESSION WITH THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, THE SINGING, AND THE DANCING, THE ATTITUDE WAS APPROPRIATELY SINCERE AND RIGHTEOUS THIS TIME.
And when the people carrying the Ark of Yahuah had gone six steps, David sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf and he danced before Yahuah with all his might, wearing the linen shoulder-garments (priestly ephod).
SO THIS TIME THE ARK WAS “CARRIED” BY PEOPLE INSTEAD OF AN OXCART AS COMMON CARGO. OBEDEDOM’S HOUSE WAS IN YERUSHALIM, SO THE DISTANCE WOULD HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY SHORT, HOWEVER DAVID WASN’T TAKING ANY CHANCES THIS TIME, SO HE (MOST PROBABLY HIS PRIEST) MADE SACRIFICES EVERY FEW STEPS. SINCE THE ARK WAS IN YERUSHALIM, IT LIKELY WASN’T MORE THAN 600 PACES OR SO, SO IT’S EASILY IMAGINABLE THAT SOMETHING ON THE ORDER OF 100 OXEN AND 100 SHEEP MAY HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED IN THE PROCESS, PROBABLY MORE!
SO DAVID DANCED IN AN EPHOD, AND THERE WAS SHOUTING AT THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET. IT WAS QUITE THE SPECTACLE! BUT JUST FOR THE RECORD, IT WAS NOT A METAL “TRUMPET” THAT WAS BLOWN, BUT A RAM’S HORN (A SHOFAR). FURTHER WHEN WE READ OF THE “SHOUTS” (A POOR TRANSLATION) THE WORD IS `TERUAH' WHICH IS A SPECIFIC KIND OF SHOFAR BLAST (RAPID STUTTERING MACHINE-GUN FIRE). A SHOFAR WAS USED LIKE A BUGLE AND IT WAS THE MEANS OF COMMUNICATING A SIGNAL FROM THE LEADERSHIP TO THE TROOPS. AND THE TERUAH WAS ONE OF THOSE SIGNALS, COMMUNICATING THAT PEOPLE NEEDED TO PAY ATTENTION. SO DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCE, IT COULD BE USED AS A VICTORY SIGNAL OR IT COULD BE USED TO SIGNAL THAT IT WAS TIME TO ASSEMBLE FOR BATTLE. PEOPLE JUST SEND TEXTS OR EMAILS TODAY - BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD BE RIDICULOUS ENOUGH TO BLOW A RAM'S HORN IN THE 21st CENTURY WOULD THEY ??
So David and the house of Yisharal carried the Ark of the Blood-Covenant Witness of Yahuah up to the `City of David’ with shouts and the sounding of the trumpet. And when Michal (the daughter of Saul) looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahuah without thought for how he looked, she hated him in her heart.
FIRST: THERE IS ARGUMENT SAYING THAT DAVID DIDN’T REALLY EXPOSE HIMSELF, BUT MERELY BEHAVED INAPPROPRIATELY AND COMMON (FOR A KING, ANYWAY). UNFORTUNATELY THAT INTERPRETATION DOESN’T HOLD ANY WATER BECAUSE THE HEBREW USED WORD TO DESCRIBE HIS “IMMODESTY” IS GALAH, MEANING TO UNCOVER NAKEDNESS. IT IS A TERM WITH BUILT-IN SEXUAL OVERTONES AND SO TO SAY HIS GENITALS BECAME EXPOSED AT TIMES DURING HIS DANCING IS INESCAPABLE.
SECOND: WHEN MIKHAL SAID HE EXPOSED HIMSELF TO THE SERVANT’S SLAVE GIRLS, THERE ARE TWO THINGS BEING COMMUNICATED. NOTICE THAT THESE SLAVE GIRLS ARE SAID TO BELONG TO THE SERVANTS (A SERVANT’S SERVANT SO TO SPEAK).
SO THESE ARE THE LOWEST CLASS OF PEOPLE POSSIBLE TO SERVE IN THE PALACE. AND THE IDEA IS NOT THAT THESE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO SAW DAVID’S NAKEDNESS, IT’S JUST THAT AS BAD AS IT IS THAT THE TRIBAL ELDERS AND LEADERS MIGHT HAVE SEEN DAVID LIKE THIS, AND THAT SOME OF THE COMMON TOWNS-PEOPLE MIGHT ALSO HAVE HAD A GLIMPSE, NOTHING COULD BE MORE DEMEANING THAN FOR A SERVANT’S SLAVE GIRLS TO ALSO HAVE SUCH A PRIVILEGE THAT, AFTER ALL, SHOULD HAVE ONLY BEEN RESERVED FOR THE EYES OF DAVID’S WIFE.
THIRD: MICHAL WASN’T SO CONCERNED FOR DAVID’S MODESTY AS SHE WAS FOR HERSELF. SHE WAS HUMILIATED BECAUSE SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A KING. NOTICE THE TEXT DOESN’T SAY ‘THE WIFE OF A KING’ (DAVID), BUT THE DAUGHTER OF A KING (SAUL). SHE MORE IDENTIFIED HERSELF WITH HER FATHER (DEAD AND GONE FOR MANY YEARS) THAN WITH HER HUSBAND. AND SCRIPTURALLY SPEAKING THIS IS A SPIRITUALLY WRONG ATTITUDE AND A BREAKING OF THE COMMANDMENT FOR A MARRIED COUPLE TO LEAVE THEIR MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND BE JOINED TOGETHER AS ONE. BUT IT ALSO SHOWS THAT MICHAL HAD RETAINED A CERTAIN ARROGANCE FROM HER FAMILY DYNASTY (THAT MOST TO-DO FAMILY MEMBERS OF A KING HAVE), ONE THAT WE SAW SAUL ESPECIALLY EXHIBIT AT EVERY TURN (HIS DAUGHTER HAD LEARNED WELL). AND THIS COMPARES TO DAVID’S ATTITUDE, WHO AS YISHARAL’S KING (REGARDLESS OF HIS OTHER FAULTS), DID NOT SEEM TO HARBOUR THE USUAL LEVEL OF ENTITLEMENT, PIETY AND ‘HOLIER-THAN-THOU’ ATTITUDE OF ROYALTY.
FOURTH: MICHAL OBVIOUSLY RESENTED BEING PART OF A HAREM. SHE WAS DAVID’S 1st WIFE, GIVEN TO HIM BY KING SAUL. NOT ONLY THAT BUT IF WE WERE TO TAKE THE TIME TO REVISIT THE OCCASION WHEN MICHAL WAS FORCIBLY RETURNED TO DAVID, THERE IS NO HINT THAT MICHAL WAS HAPPY FOR THIS REUNION. THE REALITY IS THAT MANY OF THE GIRLS THAT SHE RESENTED FOR GETTING A VIEW OF DAVID’S JIBLITS (A VIEW SHE THOUGHT WAS FOR HER ALONE) WERE THE MOTHERS OF MANY OF DAVID’S CHILDREN. BUT SHE DIDN’T ACCEPT HER POSITION AS ONE AMONG MANY, SHE SAW HERSELF AS PRIVILEGED, AND ABOVE IT ALL, AND THIS WHOLE DANCING-IN-THE-EPHOD EPISODE REFLECTED BADLY ON HER (AS SHE SAW IT).
Then they carried the Ark to its place inside the tent that David had pitched to house it (NOT A TABERNACLE (MISHKAN), JUST A COMMON EVERYDAY TENT FOR NOW) and the King offered `Ascending-Near’ and ‘Intimate-Peace Offerings to Yahuah. And when he’d finished with the sacrifices he spoke a Priestly Blessing over the people in the Name of Yahuah Tsabauth (Armies) ...
and he gave all of the Yisharalites (every man and woman) a loaf of bread, a date roll, and a raisin-cake. Then they all returned to their homes.
THE MAJORITY OF THE MEAT FROM THESE SACRIFICES COULD BE ENJOYED (LIKE A FESTIVAL) BY ALL THE COMMON-FOLK. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INVOLVED, SO WHERE WOULD ALL THE MEAT HAVE COME FROM TO GIVE TO THEM (SINCE MEAT WAS A PRECIOUS COMMODITY AND NOT AT ALL PART OF THE DAILY DIET)?
ANSWER: FROM THE SACRIFICES! IN FACT THE MAIN REASON FOR THE INTIMATE-PEACE OFFERINGS WAS TO SUPPLY THE MEAT FOR A `HAPPY FEAST' TO CELEBRATE THE ARRIVAL OF THE ARK.
And on David’s return, he wanted to bestow good favor on all his household (harem included) and wish them all well, but his wife Michal (the daughter of Saul) came out to meet him, “DON’T YOU KNOW HOW RIDICULOUS YOU LOOKED OUT THERE TODAY? YOU - AN ESTEEMED KING, FROLICKING AROUND CAREFREE, EXPOSING YOURSELF BEFORE THE MAIDENS LIKE A FILTHY COMMONER WOULD!” she mocked.
“Darling you ain’t seen nothing yet! I danced before Yahuah because He’s so wonderful and He chose me instead of your father Saul and all his descendants, to rule over Yisharal His people. I don’t care how stupid or humbled I look in my own eyes (or yours!) because all the maidens (that you’re so spitefully jealous of) have such high regard and esteem of me, even if you don’t”.
DAVID DIDN’T RESPOND ALL `MEEK AND MILD’ TO MICHAL’S OUTBURST, NO HE PUT HER AND HER BEHAVIOUR BACK IN HER PLACE BY TELLING HER THAT SHE’S NOT INFACT THE DAUGHTER OF A KING, BUT OF A MAN WHO’S KINGSHIP WAS RIPPED FROM HIM BY YAHUAH. IN FACT, YAHUAH TOOK SAUL’S KINGSHIP AND GAVE IT TO DAVID.
BOTTOM LINE: WHATEVER CLAIM TO ROYALTY THAT YOU MAY HAVE, MICHAL, IT IS THROUGH ME (WHO IS CHOSEN BY YAHUAH) NOT THROUGH YOUR THOROUGHLY DISFAVOURED FATHER (WHO WAS ABANDONED BY YAHUAH).
FURTHER DAVID’S GOAL IN HIS DANCING IN THE EPHOD WAS NOT TO SHOW OFF FOR THE PEOPLE, BUT RATHER TO SHOW HIS HUMILITY BEFORE YAHUAH. EVEN IF SOME OF DAVID’S PEOPLE (INCLUDING MICHAL) SAW HIS ANTICS AS COMMON OR BOURGEOISIE, EVEN IF DAVID HIMSELF FELT CONTEMPTIBLE BY HIS OWN ACTIONS, THOSE SIMPLE SLAVE GIRLS WHO HAVE NO SUCH ARROGANCE OR POSITION AMONG MEN WILL HONOUR HIM AS KING OF YISHARAL AND THAT’S SUFFICIENT.
HERE’S THE THING: DAVID TOOK OFF HIS ROYAL CLOTHES AND DONNED AN EPHOD (THE UNDER-GARMENT OF A PRIEST) BEFORE YAHUAH - IT WOULD BE LIKE A KING OR A PRESIDENT DOING `AN UNDIE RUN THROUGH THE STREETS TODAY’. THIS WAS AN OUTWARD DEMONSTRATION OF DAVID’S INNER BEING. A PRIEST IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A SERVANT TO YAHUAH. BY DAVID REFUSING TO WEAR HIS KINGLY CLOTHES, AND PREFERRING INSTEAD THE SIMPLEST OF PRIESTLY GARMENTS, HE SHOWED THAT WHEN YAHUAH IS PRESENT THERE IS ONLY ONE KING THAT MATTERS. YAHUAH IS THE SUPREME KING OF SHAMAYIM AND EARTH AND FOR A MAN TO STAND BEFORE HIM EVEN AS A LIMITED EARTHLY KING IS MOST INAPPROPRIATE (ESPECIALLY FOR THIS OCCASION). SO DAVID PRESENTED HIMSELF AS YAHUAH’S HUMBLE SERVANT AND THEN IN SOME WAYS COMPARED HIS LOWLY POSITION BEFORE YAHUAH AS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO THE SERVANT’S SLAVE GIRL’S POSITION BEFORE DAVID. THE COMPARISON IS THAT THERE IS NO COMPARISON. YAHUAH IS SUPREME AND UNCHALLENGED.
OF COURSE, IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT (FROM A PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE) NOT TO NOTICE THAT DAVID, AS THE PRECURSOR TO MESSIAH, WORE THE MANTEL OF A PRIEST (HOWEVER BRIEFLY) THAT OVERLAID HIS ROLE AS KING, JUST AS YAHUSHA WOULD. AND EVEN MORE, IT MIMICKED THE PERSON OF MELCHIZEDEK, THE MYSTERIOUS KING AND PRIEST OF SHALEM, THE VERY PLACE WHERE DAVID DONNED THE EPHOD AND NOW RULED FROM.
And to her dying day, Michal (the daughter of Saul) was humbled before Yahuah and could not have any children. Therefore no descendant of Saul ever regained the throne of Yisharal. BEING BARREN IS ALWAYS SEEN AS A CURSE FROM YAHUAH.
''YISHARAL"
HEBREW UNDERSTANDING:
Simply put, the word Yisharal means
the Bride/wife of Yahuah.
SCRIPTURE UNDERSTANDING: “I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries . . . because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense” (JER. 3:8-10).
TAKE NOTE WHERE IT SAYS "ISRAEL" TWICE IN THESE SCRIPTURES BECAUSE THE WORD "YISHARAL" SHOULD BE THERE.
As Satan is having a war on the Turah with the re-discovered name of our Father Yahuah and His Son Yahusha (40 years ago), Satan has his carpet-baggers stirring up confusion by putting out differing spellings and pronunciations of Yahuah and Yahusha’s name. This same chaos is happening to the word “Yisharal” also. The whole Scripture is translated as “Israel" being “Yisharal” MAKING EVERYONE THINK THAT THE NATION OF ISRAEL ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, WHICH COULDN’T BE FURTHER THAN THE TRUTH.
Nehemiah re-built Jerusalem before Yahusha Messiah appeared, the Jews declared repentance and obedience, (which didn’t last long) and they fell back into their old ways of disobedience and arguing. They were in a deplorable state when Yahusha appeared and called for repentance, but some did and were blessed with new life.
Yahusha came with a New Covenant that makes our bodies the Temple, from where He communicates and guides us (He has no need for man-made traditions or their worship). We have been cleansed by the blood of Yahusha and delivered from the power of sin, so we walk in a New and Living way.
Those who enter the New Covenant are called THE NEW WIFE OF YAHUSHA “YISHARAL,” so don’t be deceived brothers and sisters YISHARAL IS NOT THE NATION OF ISRAEL. They are two separate entities differing greatly in their behaviour.
When Yahusha appeared the Jews were still arguing about who is the right ruling Tribe, and Yahusha completed His mission on earth, did all those glorious things, and entered back into heaven in victory over Satan, and the Jews were still arguing as they are today.
The Messiah has been and gone and they missed Him. As they say `Nero fiddled while Rome was burning', the Jews will be arguing even at His return.
SOUND FAMILIAR? - WHO WAS DAVID THE SHADOW OF ?
