JESUS and CHRIST = DAVID and ABIGAIL
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God is Thought. The brightness
of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid
one upon
another, ascending into the mind of Christ.
(1Sam
25:1-3) And Samuel [a prophet] died; and all the
Israelites
were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house
at Ramah.
And David arose [Heb: loving /// beloved] [the
anointed but as yet unseated King of Israel then being hotly persued by
King
Saul], and went down to the wilderness [wild-erness]
[i.e., the secular world] of Paran. And there was a
man in
Maon [“a very rich man” Amplif.], whose possessions
were in
Carmel; and the man was very great [wealthy] [“the love
of money
is the root of all evil” 1 Tim 6:10 (money is power)], and he
had three
thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing
[Heb:
to cut off] [the hair (wool) of] his sheep in Carmel.
Now the
name of the man was Nabal [a type and shadow of all
unsaved men]
[1]; and the name of his wife Abigail [a
type and
shadow of the Holy Spirit] [2]: and she was a
woman of good
understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man
was churlish
[Heb: severe: cruel, grievous, hard-hearted, heavy, + impudent,
obstinate, rough, sore, stiff-necked, stubborn /// dense] and
evil
[Heb: bad: adversity, affliction, calamity, distress, harm,
hurt,
misery, trouble, vex, wicked, wretchedness, wrong] in his
doings;
and he was of the house of Caleb.
1.
Nabal = Heb: dolt /// stupid;
wicked (especially impious): foolish, vile person. /// a fool,
senseless.
2.
Abigail = Heb: father (that is,
source) of joy.
(1
Sam 25:4-9) And David [Heb: loving /// beloved] [a type and
shadow of
Jesus Christ] heard in the wilderness that Nabal
did shear his sheep [alike harvesting the
wheat;
completion was a time of celebration]. And David sent out ten
young
men [symbolically, the Ten Commandments “the word spoken by angels”
Heb 2:2], and David said unto the young men, Get you up to
Carmel, and
go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: And thus shall ye say to
him that
liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace
be to
thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. And now I
have heard
that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we
hurt them not, neither was there ought [anything]
missing
unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. Ask thy young
men,
and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the [ten] young
men find
favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day [at
celebration
time]: give [i.e., sacrifice, of your bountiful
goods],
I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand [i.e.,
whatsoever
you think according to your moral standards that is right and fair]
unto
thy servants, and to thy son David [thereby
declaring David’s
respect unto Nabal]. And when David's young men came, they spake
to
Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and
ceased.
(1
Sam 25:10-12) And Nabal answered David's [Heb: loving ///
beloved]
servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of
Jesse? [(creating
a distance between them, of what significance are this David and Jesse
to me?)
This said after David’s men had freely guarded Nabal’s flocks
at the
risk of their own lives] there be many servants [(persons
of low stature)] now a days that break away [implying
lawlessness] every man from his master [a ref.
to King
Saul (who had lost the anointing), thereby denigrating (Dict: to
blacken,
disparage) the character of David – an
insult]. Shall I then take my bread, and my water,
and
my flesh that I have killed for my shearers [strongly
messaging ownership (me, me, me, me), extreme self-centered egoism],
and
give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be [where
(to whom)
they belong, those lowly vagabond persons under no authority]?
So David's
young men turned their way [being refused and rejected],
and went
again, and came and told him all those sayings.
(1
Sam 25:13-17) And David [Heb: loving /// beloved]
said unto
his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on
every man
his sword; and David also girded on his sword [i.e.,
David would personally
fight]: and there went up after [following] David
about four
hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff [i.e.,
the
camp]. But one of the [Nabal’s] young men told
Abigail, Nabal's
wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers [angels]
out of
the wilderness to salute [Heb: kneel: congratulate,
praise,
thank] our master; and he railed [Heb:
swooped down
upon] [Dict: to speak bitterly or reproachfully; complained violently] on
them. But the men were very good unto us, and we were not
hurt,
neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant
[Heb:
walked, traveled] with them, when we were in the fields:
They
were a wall [Heb: a wall
of protection]
unto us both by night and day [i.e., 24 hours],
all the while
we were with them keeping [Heb: tending] the
sheep.
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is
determined
against our master [Nabal], and against all his
household [against
you his wife and we his servants]: for he is such a son of
Belial
[Heb: worthlessness; destruction, wickedness: evil, ungodly, wicked],
that
a man cannot speak to [reason with] him.
(1
Sam 25:18-20) Then Abigail [Heb: father (that is,
source) of
joy] made haste [Heb: to be liquid or flow
easily] [a type
and shadow of the Holy Spirit], and took two hundred loaves, and
two
bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of
parched
corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of
figs, and
laid them on asses [donkeys]. And she said unto her
servants [angels],
Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not
her
husband Nabal. And it was so, as she [the Holy
Spirit in
type] rode on [was made one with] the
ass [Heb:
a male ass] [an early type and shadow of Jesus Christ],
that
she came down [humbled herself] by the covert
[Heb:
covering, hiding place] of the hill [Heb:
mountain] [of
Nabal’s pride], and, behold, David [(now shifted into
his natural
soulical state)] and his men [who shared their leader
David’s
natural soulical state and attitude] came down against her;
and
she met them.
(1
Sam 25:21,22) Now [soulical] David had said
[rationalized], Surely in vain have I kept [Heb:
hedged
about, protected] all that this fellow hath in the
wilderness, so
that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he
hath requited
[Heb: returned (to)] me evil for good. So and
more also do
God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by
the
morning light any that pisseth against the wall [i.e.,
an Old
Testament oath returning “eye for eye” pertaining to “any” males and
(perhaps)
probably all males, for his hot
anger (rage) did not specify either men, youths, or babes. An alike
deed did
evil King Herod “who slew all the children (Gk: males) that were in
Bethlehem”
(Matt 2:16)].
(1
Sam 25:23-26) And when Abigail saw David, she hasted [Heb:
to
be liquid or flow easily] [a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit],
and lighted
[Heb: descended downward] off the ass, and fell
before
David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, And fell
at
his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this
iniquity
[Heb: perversity; evil: fault, sin] be [a type
and shadow
of Jesus Christ who carried our sin]: and let thine handmaid, I
pray
thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine
handmaid. Let
not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial
[Heb:
worthlessness; destruction, wickedness: evil, ungodly, wicked],
even Nabal:
for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly
[Heb:
foolishness, (morally) wickedness; a crime; punishment: villany]
is
with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my
lord,
whom thou didst send [for had I seen them, I would have averted
(avoided, deterred, prevented) Naval’s folly]. Now therefore, my
lord,
as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath
withholden
thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging
thyself
with thine own hand [for “Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the
Lord” Rom 12:19 & Deut 32:35], [AND A CURSE:] now
let
thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
ABIGAIL’S BLESSING
(1
Sam 25:27-31) And now this blessing which thine handmaid
hath brought
unto my lord [of food (natural) and God’s word (supernatural);
feed my
sheep and win souls to Christ], let it even be given unto the
young men that
follow my lord. I pray thee, forgive the trespass [Heb:
rebellion, sin] of thine handmaid [she burdened
herself
with Nabal’s faults (sins)]: for the LORD will certainly make my
lord a
sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD,
and
evil hath not been found in thee all thy days [i.e.,
You are
forgiven, always]. Yet a man [King Saul] is risen
to
pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: [PROPHECY:]
but
the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD
thy God;
and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out
of the
middle of a sling. And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have
done to
my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken
concerning thee,
and shall have appointed thee ruler [as “kings and
priests” Rev
1:6; 5:10] over Israel; That this shall be no grief
unto thee,
nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed
blood
causeless, or that my lord [David] hath avenged
himself:
but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember
thine handmaid.
DAVID’S BLESSINGS
(1
Sam 25:32-35) And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God
of
Israel which sent thee this day to meet me: And blessed be thy
advice,
and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to
shed
blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. For in
very
deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back
from
hurting thee, [and] except thou hadst hasted [Heb:
to be liquid or flow easily] and come to meet me [“Draw
nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you” James 4:8], surely
there had not
been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth
against the
wall. So David received of her hand that which she had brought him,
and
said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have
hearkened
to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
(1
Sam 25:36-38) And Abigail came [please note that she
did not
“flow”] to Nabal; and, behold, he held a
feast in
his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was
merry
within him, for he was very drunken [like drunken King
Belshazzar’s feast (Dan 5:1-31) wherein the fingers of a man’s hand
appeared
upon the wall and prophesied his doom]: wherefore she told him nothing,
less or more, until the morning light. But it came to pass in the
morning, when
the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him
these
things, that his heart died within him [a paralyzing
heart
stroke], and he became as a stone [as hard
naturally as he
was hard supernaturally] [also, like Lot’s wife who “became a pillar of
salt”
Gen 19:26]. And it came to pass about ten days after
[of
extreme suffering, internally raging, “eye for eye” “upon his own head”
(next
verse 39)], that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
(1
Sam 25:39-44) And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he
said, Blessed
be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the
hand of
Nabal , and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD
hath
returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent [His
angels] and communed [an act deeper and much
more intimate
than “spoke”] with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
And when
the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto
her,
saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
And she
arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said,
Behold, let
thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my
lord [“with
the washing of water by the word” Eph 5:26, as did Jesus to His
disciples in
John 13:5-11]. And Abigail hasted [Heb: to be
liquid or
flow easily] [a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit], and arose,
and rode
upon an ass [a type and shadow of Jesus Christ],
with
five damsels of hers that went after her [a type and shadow
of the
Hand Ministry of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher (Eph
4:11), each
“damsel” having the fullness of the Holy Spirit]; and she
went after
the messengers [angels] of David [also
a type
and shadow of Jesus Christ], and became his wife [i.e.,
and David became One with Abigail His Wife]. David also
took Ahinoam
of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. But [King]
Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife [i.e.,
a single
spirit is composed of many spirits: “My name is Legion: for we are
many” Mark
5:9. Look to your own soul/spirit (thoughts), how many people have
influenced (affected)
your life? Everyone that you have ever interacted with
throughout your
entire life is really a part of the composite you], to
Phalti the
son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
Amen