In exactly one day, upon hearing one sentence, David went from reigning king to fugitive. That one sentence was a punch in the gut. And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom. (2 Sam 15:13)
David knew what that meant. How? Remember after his sin with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan delivered God’s message of punishment to David, which David did not forget these years later: Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. (2 Sam 12:10-11a)
Here it came. His son Absalom was on the march with his sword to overthrow him. Absalom had deceived the people and stolen their hearts. David immediately ran away with 600 of his men.
The Bible is a hologram. Pictures of Christ weave in and out. If you have eyes to see and ears to hear, you will get that. The Bible is about God and where He’s been and where He’s going. It’s about His kingdom. He made the Bible a picture book. A pattern. What happened in Bible history repeats itself. It points to either Christ’s first coming, second coming, Jews in the tribulation or all three.
Back to our story. David, a type of Christ, is rejected by his own in 2 Sam 15. Absalom wants to replace him—by killing him if necessary. It was foretold by Nathan the prophet.
With this hint of Christ in the front of your mind now, you can’t read this next verse taken from David’s flight from Absalom without having a lightbulb moment.
And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, (same as Mount of Olives) and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. (2 Sam 15:30)
Compare this with Jesus.
And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him…And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. (Luke 22:39, 44)
Hopefully you see it. And having seen the similarity… the hologram… the picture… let’s go back to the prophet Nathan’s prophesy to David that we looked at earlier:
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; … Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. (2 Sam 12:10a-11a)
The sword never departed from David’s house. Jesus was the ultimate seed that came from David’s household, and in the Luke passage, Judas was on the march to meet Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, located at the foot of the Mount of Olives to betray Him.
This seems a grievous experience. But look. God was in control! Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. This rejection in David’s life was from the hand of God for a purpose that mirrored the rejection in Christ’s life from the hand of God for a purpose. What was that, you ask? For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
By the way, the sword still never departs from David’s house. There’s still the tribulation to come where the sword comes against the Jews. This prophesy from the mouth of Nathan doesn’t end until Christ returns. The whole plan of God is still playing out!
Jody
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