2 Samuel 6:1-11

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July 16, 2023

Biblical Home (pt3) Masters and Slaves

00:00: Good morning.
00:01: If Mr.
00:02: Berry, will you open us up with a word of prayer? Yes, sir.
00:05: Heavenly Father, thank you that we can come before you this morning and study your word.
00:09: And I want to just ask that you would make our hearts receptive to it, that you would get us to be excited about your word, excited about studying it and learning and hearing how you've been taught to us.
00:18: I pray that you would bless Brother Mike as he's prepared and done a lot of work to be able to teach it to us.
00:24: So I ask that you be receptive and that you bless our worship today and use his name.
00:28: Amen.
00:29: Alright, let's go to 2 Samuel chapter 6.
00:49: Now David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000, and David arose and he went with all the people who were with him from Baal Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name, the very name of the Lord of hosts, who is enthroned above the cherubim.
01:08: They placed the ark of God on a new cart that they might bring it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were leading the new cart.
01:21: So they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, and Ahio was walking ahead of the ark.
01:30: Meanwhile, David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with all kinds of instruments made of firwood, with lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
01:42: But when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen nearly upset it, and the anger of the Lord then burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence, and he died there by the ark of God.
02:01: And David became very angry because of the Lord's outburst against Uzzah, and where the place now is called Perez Uzzah up to this day.
02:12: So David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, how can the ark of the Lord come to me? And David was unwilling to move the ark of the Lord into the city of David with him, but David took it aside to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
02:28: Thus, the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all of his household.
02:38: Now it was told that King David, saying that the Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him on account of the ark, and David went, and he brought the ark of God up from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David, and he brought it with gladness.
02:54: And so it was that when the bears of the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling, and David was dancing before the Lord with all of his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod, so David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouting and the sounds of the trumpet.
03:19: Then it happened that as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David that Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out of the window, and she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she was displeased in her heart at him.
03:34: So they brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent which David had pitched for it, and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord, and when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts, and further, he distributed to all the people and all the multitude of Israel, both of the men and the women, a cake of bread and some of the dates and one of the raisins to each one, and all the people departed, each one to his house.
04:04: But when David returned to bless his household, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said, how the king of Israel distinguished himself today.
04:15: He uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants and his servants' maids as one of the foolish ones, shamelessly uncovering himself.
04:24: So David said to Michal, it was before the Lord who chose me above your father and above all of his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel.
04:34: Therefore, I will celebrate before the Lord and I will be more likely esteemed than this and will be humbled in my own eyes, but with the maids of whom you have spoken with them, I will be distinguished.
04:48: And Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no children to the day of her death.
04:54: So last week, we finally got the king, King David in his city.
04:59: He had the major two battles, which would, that was the last major battle where the Philistines would onslaught David ever again.
05:10: Now we do have some indication of they have little skirmishes here and there, but they never tried to attack David again.
05:15: David's enemies are under his footstool at this point.
05:19: And we're gonna see in the next chapter that he even says that the Lord had given him peace among all of his enemies, which brings us to David now wanting to bring the Ark of the Covenant back into the city.
05:30: Now, if you remember back in 1 Samuel, you remember the last time we saw it.
05:35: Did we, last week, we briefly spoke.
05:37: When's the last time we saw the Ark? Not we actually saw it, but heard about it.
05:45: It went to Kiriath Gerium.
05:48: And some of y'all says, Baal Judah? Who, anybody saw Kiriath Gerium? Anybody, anybody? All right, Baal Judah and Kiriath Gerium is the same place.
05:58: Okay, so, we'll just say Baal Judah because everybody says it.
06:06: All right, this is where it's at now and whose house is it at? Abinadab, Abinadab on the hill.
06:22: This is significant because when you're trying to find out where it's been for 67 years, you notice it said, I think it said three times.
06:30: Abinadab's house up on the hill.
06:33: When they brought it, remember when it was playing hot potato, when they brought it to Beth Shemesh.
06:40: You remember what happened there? And them fools looked inside of it and it struck 70 men dead.
06:47: And some of them said 70,000 was a, there was a textual variant, but we'll say 70.
06:53: They killed 70,000 people.
06:55: So then they said, hey, we'll send it to Abinadab's house up on the hill.
07:00: Then if you remember when I was doing 1 Samuel, we got to the city of Nob and it says they were before the Lord.
07:08: And I said, hey, this is how we know it probably was not the ark there.
07:12: It was probably just men doing their duties before the Lord and an ephod because it never moves from here.
07:20: It never moves from this one.
07:22: 60, I'm saying it's this long.
07:28: Could be more.
07:29: I think it's more, but I'm doing, the reason why I'm saying this is because I know factual by the numbers we have in scripture, this is where it would have been.
07:38: If you go back when it was first came in, I think it's around chapter five or six of 1 Samuel.
07:45: It says the ark had been 20 years.
07:48: Okay, then you have 40 years of Saul's reign, right? So where are we at? And then now we're at, we're going to low ball it and say we're at seven and a half years of David's reign before he went from Hebron to Jerusalem.
08:02: That's where I come up with it.
08:03: So we're at bare minimum, it's been 67 years and the ark's not been in the presence of God's people.
08:08: It's been in the presence of Obed-Edom.
08:11: So it says that David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000.
08:17: So look, man, David's going from here, okay? And he's going to go to, he's in Jerusalem and he's going to go, where am I at? He's going to go here with 30,000, Kiriathirium's right here.
08:36: And he's going to go with 30,000 people to go get this ark.
08:40: And when he gets there, it says that David, and Rosing went with those people, they went to Baal-Judah to bring the ark of God, which is called by his name to the very name of the Lord of hosts who was enthroned above the cherubim.
08:52: But what was this ark? What was it? The dwelling place of the Lord.
08:57: It was considered the dwelling place of God, but what was in it? Aaron's rod.
09:03: At this point, you're right, Aaron's rod.
09:05: Most importantly, what's in it? The ark.
09:08: The two tablets.
09:10: Yeah, now the, it did have Aaron's bud at this time.
09:13: We'll see later on, I think when Solomon dedicates the temple, it's not spoken of being in there anymore.
09:19: The, it had manna and it had the Aaron's rod and it had the ark.
09:26: Well, why would, what was so distinguishing about those three pieces in there? Well, one was how God made a covenant, you know, he gave the law to his people on the tablets.
09:38: Yeah, there would be, there was no debate as of what God required.
09:43: Right.
09:43: Here it is, and it's in the midst of the people.
09:46: They knew exactly what they were supposed to do.
09:48: What about the manna? What was significant about it being in there? Showing God's providence? God's, yeah, provision.
09:55: Yeah, yeah, his provision that he provided for his people from the time that they came out.
09:59: Actually, before they even went up and they got the actual tablets, God was already providing for his people stuff to eat.
10:05: And then later on, he gave them quail and they complained.
10:08: Always tickles me about the quail.
10:09: He gave them enough quail to make them vomit out their nose.
10:12: Anyway, it's like, okay, you want meat? I'll give you meat.
10:15: So then what was significant about the rod? Yeah, but specifically it was to show that, hey, you had other people thinking that they could take over Aaron's position, and he said, hey, whoever's rod buds in the morning, that's gonna show you who my man is, okay? So those were the reason why those were there.
10:38: We'll talk about Aaron in a minute because it was his descendants that were only supposed to touch the ark.
10:45: It was his descendants that only could actually come up and actually place something on it.
10:50: So it says that they placed the ark of God on a new cart that they had, I'm sorry, they placed the ark on a new cart that they might bring the ark from the house of Obed, I mean, of Binadab, which was up on the hill, and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Binadab, were leading the new cart.
11:12: Okay, first and foremost, this little box, chest, we'll say those are angels, don't laugh at my drawing, those are the cherubim.
11:25: This looks like wings to me.
11:26: It was.
11:37: They put it on a cart.
11:41: Well, they're supposed to put it on a cart.
11:42: Supposed to have staves running through it.
11:44: Supposed to have poles running through it.
11:46: If you go back and you wanna read, you can read in Numbers, chapters four and chapter seven, tells you how that was supposed to be moved.
11:55: Makes me wonder if they were trying to bar the Philistine because the Philistines could have put it on a cart and taken it around.
12:01: I thought that, okay, are they mimicking that? Was there some fear of touching it? I say yes, okay? I say yes, but if you remember correctly, the Philistines put it on a cart and just let it go, and the cows were like, maybe poke the cow and let him keep on going.
12:18: Well, in this case, it was put on there in a procession to get this where it needed to go.
12:25: But it's important that we look at this for just a second.
12:32: You had Levi, and then you had, this would have been Coab, this would have been, these were the three descendants of the tribe, the first three descendants of the tribe of Levi.
13:03: These, each one of these were given specific instructions on what they were supposed to do, okay? So, this guy had four kids, Amram, Hebron, and Uziel, and Ishkar, those were the three.
13:38: Remember, this was gonna be the Levitical priesthood.
13:44: These, the Colophytes handled all the implements of the ark.
13:50: These guys handled all the curtains, screens, and all the, basically, the surroundings of the tent.
14:03: This guy was given the post, the, basically, the shiplap, that's how I'm gonna say it, because that's kind of what it was, and the sockets.
14:16: And poles.
14:21: Each one of those were said that they could carry.
14:23: This guy was given a cart, this guy was given a cart, and carried with post.
14:40: So, who was the descendant of Amram? Important people.
14:52: Aaron.
14:53: Aaron, who else? A-A-Ron.
14:57: A-A-Ron.
14:58: Aaron.
15:01: Jake Wellen.
15:04: Dionysus.
15:06: Okay, you had Aaron, and then you had? Moses.
15:12: And then you had Miriam.
15:17: Out of Aaron, you had who? Two dead guys.
15:26: Nadab.
15:29: Abihu.
15:29: Who? Is Eliezer a friend of ours? Eliezer.
15:33: He's one.
15:34: It actually would be this way, because these guys get wiped out.
15:40: So out of Aaron came Eliezer, and Hemethar.
15:52: That would have been the four.
15:55: Two of them wiped out.
15:56: So who out of, now remember, of Kohathite handled all of...
16:03: And this is where it can be confusing, and this is why I put it up here.
16:07: The Kohathites handled the Ark.
16:10: All the details of the Ark.
16:12: But who actually could go into the Holy of Holies and sprinkle stuff on the Ark? Who actually came face-to-face with the Shekinah glory of God once a year? These guys that descended from Him.
16:29: Now did Moses actually see the presence of God? Yes, but he was not given instructions.
16:35: These men were going to be the actual priests of God.
16:38: Every descendant from Him would be the priest of God.
16:41: If you remember back in Judges, you had Gershon, and then Jonathan were these descendants.
16:52: This guy wound up being a very bad priest, and all the Micah's idolatry and all that back in Judges.
16:58: I don't know if y'all remember, but anyway.
17:02: These guys were able to touch the things pertaining to the Ark.
17:09: Inside the Holy of Holies, or in the first Holy place, what else would have been there? Showbread.
17:17: Showbread, okay.
17:18: So inside there, these guys, the Kohathites, would have handled the moving of the Ark.
17:22: They would have handled all the holy implements.
17:29: Candlestick.
17:30: Yep, implements.
17:31: Yep.
17:31: They'd have handled all the holy implements.
17:34: That's why if you say, if you go back and you read, you can do it on your own time, if you have time to do it, Numbers 4 and Numbers 7, and it talks about how they're supposed to be handled and all of that.
17:45: If you remember last week, we said, hey man, I wonder, because I've always wondered, go in and look around.
17:52: Specifically says, now we know these men, when they went in once a year, they had to look.
17:58: But even when they did that, what did he have to do before he went into the presence of the Lord? Offer his own sin offering.
18:03: Well, before he even, yeah, that's true, but before he went in there, he didn't just walk in and be like, oh wow, check it out, there's the Ark.
18:10: He had to fill it with incense.
18:12: So there was still that cloud and smoke in between that and the Ark.
18:19: But it says, when the Kohathites go in, because it was come time to move, these were the guys that had to go in and get all this stuff ready.
18:27: When they go in, they take the big curtain, undo the curtain, and let's just say this was the Ark.
18:34: They undo the curtain, walk forward, not even looking at it, throw it over top of it.
18:42: And it specifically says in the Numbers passages 4 and 7, don't look around in there, or you'll die.
18:51: Don't look around, and don't touch it.
18:54: Now, they were then supposed to put the poles and stuff through, and then, I don't know if y'all remember this guy, but then, anybody remember Korah's rebellion? You remember what Korah's problem was? He wanted to be like Aaron and Moses.
19:16: And Moses says, do you not know that, man, you get to do what none of these other dudes get to do.
19:22: You get to tow this guy with poles, man.
19:26: You're actually not having to deal with the sockets and the poles and all that, man.
19:29: You're actually moving the presence of God.
19:32: And that wasn't enough.
19:34: He said, no, I want to be like you.
19:35: And God said, all right, in the morning, we'll see what happens, and goodbye.
19:40: Him and all his family get swallowed up.
19:42: Bye.
19:42: Okay.
19:43: So now we can understand who's supposed to be touching the Ark and who ain't.
19:50: How was it supposed to be transported? By hand.
19:56: Who were the only people given a cart with ox? The ones that carried the curtains and the screens and the tabernacle coverings and the guys that actually put up the, I don't know if you've ever seen how they constructed it.
20:11: If you read it, it's like shiplap.
20:13: That's how they did it, put it together, and then all the poles and all the sockets and all that.
20:16: Those guys got carts.
20:17: They didn't have to tow all that.
20:19: They actually had, it was so big and so elaborate that they couldn't carry that stuff on their back.
20:25: Okay.
20:26: Well, these dudes carried it.
20:28: Now, now it's going to get those.
20:31: So they bring this and they get it on the way to Jerusalem.
20:37: And it says in verse five, verse four, so they brought it with the Ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, and Ahioah was walking ahead of the Ark.
20:50: Meanwhile, David and all of the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with all kinds of instruments made of fur and lyres and harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.
21:03: Now absolute parade, pomp and circumstance, and was it rightfully so? You better believe it.
21:13: What had not happened, family tree that y'all can barely read my writing.
21:24: I was impressed that you had that all by memory.
21:26: Huh? He's got it written on his hand.
21:31: All right.
21:32: Last week we briefly spoke, not, what is this not? The Big Bang Theory.
21:39: This is Let There Be Light.
21:44: Straight line.
21:45: That goes on into somewhere else.
21:49: You had the Garden of Eden at the beginning, right? What did the Garden of Eden represent? Presence of God.
21:58: Presence of God, right here.
22:00: And what did God do in the Garden of Eden? He communed, what's that? He dwelt with his two people.
22:10: He dwelt with his two people.
22:12: And what was Adam? Adam was his vice regent.
22:19: He was basically king of the garden.
22:23: So you've got, in the Garden of Eden, you've got the dwelling place of God, with his vice regent, and for making a point, we're going to say king, okay? In the garden you had the dwelling place of God, God's vice regent, and perfect communion.
22:44: But what happens? Imagine this.
22:51: Creator and his two creatures.
22:54: Perfect harmony.
22:56: Perfect.
22:57: Naked and unashamed.
23:01: But what happens? Fall.
23:04: What happens to this? It goes away.
23:13: What happens to the Garden of Eden? They're banned from it.
23:17: Yeah, there becomes a man with a sword.
23:20: Look at my sword.
23:21: Look at that.
23:23: There becomes a cherubim with a sword there.
23:25: I said, you can't come here no more.
23:27: You're sinful.
23:29: So, we go on for however many years with a dwelling place of God unapproachable.
23:36: Right? Anybody ever go back to the Garden of Eden? Never again.
23:41: You go on.
23:43: When does the dwelling place of God develop once again? Whenever they're getting ready to leave.
23:52: When they actually get into the Sinai Peninsula.
23:57: And what does he say? You're going to make me a tabernacle.
24:00: That's how long.
24:01: I would...
24:04: My calculations from the time of creation to the time of Abraham is probably around 2,000 years.
24:21: Would you agree somewhere around there? He's smarter than me.
24:23: That's why I ask him.
24:25: If he throws something at me, it's I'm wrong.
24:27: So, around 2,000 years.
24:29: And then you have the time from Abraham to the time of Moses, the Exodus.
24:35: Okay? So, think about how long that is.
24:38: All that time, no dwelling place of God.
24:41: No place where God's people will meet.
24:43: And then you get to the Exodus.
24:47: And the dwelling place of God appears.
24:54: He's going to dwell with his people.
24:56: So, now we have in redemptive history...
24:58: We're having redemptive history unfolding of what God's doing.
25:04: All this time, nobody can come in God's presence.
25:06: Oh, wait a minute.
25:07: Now, God says, I'm going to make a covenant with these jokers who were lost.
25:11: I'm going to dwell with them.
25:13: And I'm going to give them a covenant.
25:14: But I'm going to be in the middle.
25:15: But who can come? Can anybody come? They can come to...
25:22: Last week we drew it.
25:24: Let's say this is the...
25:27: Yeah.
25:27: Yeah.
25:27: And then you had where they could come through.
25:29: This is where that screen was we were talking about.
25:31: And then you had the...
25:33: That would be where the brazen altar was.
25:36: And you'd probably have some slaughter tables here and there.
25:39: And then you had there and here.
25:44: And the showbread.
25:45: And then you had this guy.
25:47: And then you had this.
25:48: But as you came through here...
25:50: Who could even come through there? Only Israelites.
25:54: So even on this outer perimeter here, you had the court of the Gentiles.
25:58: Remember, even at the time of the Exodus, they still had out here...
26:02: Remember, they got proselytes.
26:05: Okay? But they couldn't go here.
26:07: Only Israelites could come in here.
26:09: Okay? And when they came in here, how far could they go? About right here.
26:18: How do we know that? Because they actually took part in the slaughtering of their animal.
26:24: There were times when they actually had to cut it.
26:29: Butcher it.
26:30: Which would make it seem a little bit more intimate.
26:33: Instead of going, Alright, here, check this out, dude.
26:35: I'm going to let you handle that.
26:36: And I'm going to go back to sinning outside this gate.
26:38: No.
26:39: And you actually have to kill and slaughter that which you cared for.
26:42: Bought with your money.
26:44: But once you got past here, where could you go? Who could go? Just the priest.
26:50: The priest? And then once you got here, the Levitical priesthood.
26:57: But once you got here, who could go through that gate? Who could go through that screen? No, no.
27:03: Coethites.
27:03: Part of that.
27:04: Yeah, that's why when we talk about being confusing with Samuel, was Samuel a descendant of Aaron? He was not.
27:12: He was not a descendant of Aaron.
27:14: That's why, if you remember, as a boy, he would come in here and it said he would trim the lamps, and he would do the showbread.
27:21: He could go here, but he couldn't go here.
27:25: So it stops here with the Coethites.
27:28: Remember, so now we're narrowing it down.
27:31: And who could come through there? Aaron's descendants.
27:35: Aaron's descendants.
27:37: All year.
27:38: Only one time a year.
27:40: So you see that.
27:41: So once again, God's made a dwelling place, but not everybody could come.
27:45: Not everybody could come and touch it, see it.
27:49: But they knew that this is where God was going to be.
27:52: He was going to dwell among His people.
27:52: He was going to be their God.
27:53: They were going to be His people and be in the midst of them.
27:56: Okay? Now, that gets us to, well, what's David trying to do? David's actually trying to get what was lost back here in 1 Samuel where God was actually dwelling with His people.
28:11: Was that a good thing to do? Was it a good thing to do? Yeah, man! Yes! I mean, look, you've got God's man.
28:26: I know we confused some people when we did 1 Samuel out of, you know, a man after God's own heart.
28:35: And it really should be understood as a man according to God's own heart.
28:38: David didn't have a heart of God.
28:40: Let's just be honest.
28:41: He was a sinner.
28:43: Was there anything in David that caused God to choose David? No.
28:47: He was a man after God's own choosing.
28:49: So, David, God's man, or I'll say king, in Jerusalem, which would be Zion.
29:08: And what did Zion represent? Remember? Spiritual.
29:13: It was a theological and spiritual place.
29:15: This was the city of God.
29:23: Well, from David's perspective, and we're drawing an inference, okay? Alright, man, we've got God's king in God's city.
29:31: No dwelling place of God.
29:34: So what's David making a rational, logical conclusion? We've got to go to Abinadab's house.
29:44: We're pretty much done doing all this.
29:47: Let's get here, and let's go get the dwelling place of God so that all three of those can be together.
30:02: Man, that'd be awesome.
30:05: That's the point.
30:07: And I do believe his motives were sincere.
30:10: I believe what he was doing was right.
30:13: But what do we see that David did not do here that he did before he went to battle with the Philistines? That's exactly what he should have done.
30:23: That's exactly what he should have done, and he did not.
30:28: Now, we should not assume that David knew the Levitical law.
30:33: We should not assume.
30:34: Was he a Levite? No.
30:36: He knew that, hey man, we've got to get this back, and it needs to come back the safest way possible.
30:42: And I think the safest way possible from David's perspective is, man, if we put it on a cart, it'll come safely here.
30:48: It got there on a cart, right? Yeah.
30:49: Last time it was hauled off.
30:51: Yeah.
30:51: Okay, so let's give David the benefit of the doubt that he was not intentionally, willfully disobeying the command of God.
31:02: But was he? Yes.
31:05: Yeah.
31:06: Hey, man, even if it's in ignorance, and you sin, it's punishable by death.
31:11: You say something? Isn't when you get to Chronicles category, he actually this time consults the Levites? I was going to, if we get to that part, if we get that far today, I was going to, yeah, because after that three-month period, David even says, hey man, I basically, and I might call your translation, I screwed up.
31:29: I screwed up royally.
31:31: So let me talk to the Lord, and we'll bring this back the way it was intended.
31:35: That is correct.
31:35: He does that in Chronicles.
31:36: If you remember, I think it was last week or the week before, y'all should try to look in Chronicles, because now we're starting to get, where we can get a tidbit more information from Chronicles that we could not before in David's life.
31:48: So that is true.
31:50: So they're partying, cymbals, tambourines, dancing, and when they come to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the Ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled, upset, well, when it slipped, anybody's got anything other? Shook it.
32:06: Shook it.
32:07: In other words, as Uzzah was following it, he saw that the oxen's foot either slipped, tripped, he didn't want it to come off the cart and fall on the ground, and Uzzah, in an act of reverence, from his perspective, I'm going to keep this thing from hitting the ground.
32:28: Was that a logical thought? Yes.
32:34: Yes.
32:35: What's the problem with that? God could have kept it off the ground if he wanted to.
32:40: Well, one, the dirt's not sinful.
32:42: Right.
32:43: And this is the holiest object on the earth.
32:48: Is Uzzah a sinner? Sure.
32:51: Yeah.
32:53: So, Uzzah, thinking his hands were holier than the dirt, and God strikes him dead.
32:59: Hey, I don't care who you are, if you don't read this passage, and it not bother you, something's wrong.
33:07: All right.
33:07: Let's just be honest.
33:09: I mean, if you don't read Nadab and Abihu, okay, and go, that's tough.
33:18: And then what does he tell Aaron after he zaps Nadab and Abihu? You better not cry.
33:25: You cry, I'll do the same thing to you.
33:28: You go dust off them clothes and you give them to somebody else.
33:30: Hey, imagine that.
33:31: Hey, these guys have been incinerated.
33:33: We're going to haul them outside and take off their tunics and kind of pop them and go, all right.
33:38: Next.
33:38: All right, Eliezer.
33:40: I mean, that's a little weird, man.
33:42: And then God said, don't you cry.
33:44: Don't you grieve over them.
33:45: I'm holy.
33:47: Okay.
33:48: That's basically what we have here.
33:50: In Nadab and Abihu's case, they knew what they did was wrong.
33:55: Okay.
33:56: Will we all agree that Nadab and Abihu knew what they did was wrong? They offered strange fire and knew they shouldn't have.
34:02: And we could say were they drinking and all that or had they been drinking wine based on what happened to Leviticus 10 and all that.
34:08: Could we say that? Yeah, all right.
34:09: That's another discussion for another time.
34:12: But we know this.
34:13: They knew what they did was wrong.
34:14: And God torched them.
34:17: In this case, I think Uzzah, in good sincerity, is trying to keep that which was holy from being desecrated.
34:26: And that didn't work.
34:28: God says that's not going to work for me.
34:30: And he struck him dead.
34:34: So, in verse 7, in the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, he struck him down.
34:39: And there, for his irreverence, he died there right there by the ark of God.
34:45: And then in verse 8, David became angry because the Lord's outburst against Uzzah.
34:51: And the place is called there, Paris meaning outbreak, Uzzah to this day.
34:56: Why was David angry? And why was David angry and was his anger legitimate? He's angry because he was just trying to do what he thought was right.
35:16: Yeah.
35:17: David thought what he was doing was correct.
35:20: And he thought that what Uzzah did was correct.
35:23: But it was all wrong.
35:25: All wrong from the beginning.
35:26: How they were bringing it, everything.
35:29: Let's just say this.
35:31: Had it not had stayed on the cart and entered the city, Uzzah had died.
35:38: No.
35:39: Does anybody say error there? Uzzah's error? It's interesting that they don't use the word sin.
35:49: Did you ever say sin? Anybody? Error.
35:52: And it's interesting that they don't use the word for sin there.
35:55: They use the word error.
35:57: Now, ultimately, this was a huge error.
36:00: Okay? Huge.
36:03: But there's a distinction trying to be made that this was not a willful act of rebellion knowingly.
36:10: Was it out of ignorance? I believe so.
36:12: But even in an act of ignorance, you can still be punished for your crime.
36:16: And God punished him.
36:17: And God punished him severely.
36:19: Now, the other question is, does this, was Uzzah condemned to hell? Well, I say no.
36:25: Okay? I say no.
36:27: Nadab and Abihu? I vacillate on that.
36:31: In this case, I say no.
36:33: But this is showing the utter holiness of God that He's unapproachable.
36:39: What does it say in Lamentations? It says, If it were not for the mercies of God, we would all be consumed.
36:49: And who can stand before the mighty presence of God? Really, nobody.
36:54: So what Uzzah got was rightful.
36:58: It was exactly what he should have gotten based on the Mosaic legislation, who was supposed to touch it and all that.
37:03: Uzzah got what he deserved.
37:06: But does that make David's anger legitimate? Do we ever, do we, as creatures, ever have the right to be angry? I don't care what's happened to you.
37:20: I don't care what goes on in your life.
37:22: I don't care what kind of troubles you go through.
37:24: I don't care what kind of losses you have.
37:26: Do we ever have the right to be angry with God? Never.
37:31: That's a jagged pill to swallow.
37:33: Okay? I'm going to be honest.
37:35: But we don't.
37:37: Jonah, two times, two times men say they were angry with God.
37:42: And look at the two distinctions.
37:44: Jonah saw a whole city saved.
37:47: And what did God say to him when he was angry with him? You got a right to be angry with me? Who are you? Okay, in this case, we don't see God respond to David.
37:59: But does David have a right to be angry with God? And the answer is without question, no.
38:07: He does not.
38:09: Does God owe David an explanation? No.
38:13: What should David have done the first time? He should have inquired of the Lord.
38:18: He should have inquired of the Lord.
38:20: Only two times in Scripture that's explicit.
38:23: Okay? Now we talk about Jeremiah and him lamenting and being angry about the situation, but two times in all Scripture where it says that person was angry with God.
38:31: Jonah and David.
38:32: And it's interesting that two are totally opposite.
38:35: One being condemned justly for what he did, Uzzah, and then the other one's being saved by the mercy of God.
38:43: And this is just interesting to me.
38:44: It's just like, man, two men, two prophets.
38:47: Jonah was a prophet and so was David.
38:49: And they're both angry with God for doing that which was right.
38:55: So, that brings us to verse 9.
38:59: So David was afraid of the Lord that day.
39:02: Should he have been afraid? You better believe it.
39:05: Yeah.
39:06: Did David have the right? Did David have the right to be angry? No.
39:09: Did he have the right to be scared? Yep.
39:12: Remember, two times.
39:14: David, all of his life, two times he's been scared.
39:18: Anybody remember the first time? Achish.
39:23: Went to Achish.
39:24: Remember when he ran? He was running from Saul.
39:26: He got there and he was foaming at the mouth, scratching at the door, acting like a raven maniac.
39:30: Said he was scared.
39:31: He was afraid of Achish.
39:33: And then this time, he was afraid of God.
39:35: Only two times in all Scripture says David was afraid.
39:37: Even when we get to Absalom's rebellion and all of that nonsense, we'll see that when he leaves the city, it's because he doesn't want to wind up having his son killed, nor does he want to see the bloodshed of the people.
39:51: It never says because David's afraid.
39:52: Matter of fact, the prophet even says, hey, don't you know your dad's heart is like that of a lion? And he will strike down anybody? He said, so you better watch what you're doing, Absalom.
40:02: But David leaves for not wanting to see the people slaughtered because Absalom certainly would have killed the people in the city.
40:09: So that gets us to verse 9.
40:14: I'm sorry, in verse 10.
40:16: And David was unwilling to move the ark of the Lord into the city of David with him, but David took aside it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
40:25: Okay, why was he unwilling to move the ark any further? He needed to go back and rethink his plans.
40:30: Man, no doubt.
40:31: Hey, let's just say, if this thing fell off, we don't know.
40:37: Okay, we don't know.
40:38: We don't know.
40:38: Did this thing end up on the ground? Or is this thing kind of cattywampus? Somebody's got to straighten it up.
40:45: And David's like, look, we ain't going no further.
40:47: Let's figure out what we got to do to get this squared away.
40:51: Now, however it gets to Obed-Edom's house, does the drug on one leg? We have no idea.
40:56: But they get it there.
41:00: And the Gittites were that of Gideon, which was not too far from there.
41:04: And it says that David took it aside at Obed-Edom's house, the Gittite, and thus the ark of the Lord remained, the house of Obed-Edom, the Gittite, three months.
41:14: And the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all of his household.
41:17: We don't know much about Obed-Edom.
41:20: All we know is this is where it went.
41:23: And then he got blessed.
41:24: He got blessed, too.
41:25: And also, if you go back, they blessed Abinadab's house because they were the men that took care of that.
41:31: Now, I think it was back in 1 Samuel, I think Abinadab's house on the hill, his son Eleazar, I think, was the one that ministered.
41:42: I'd have to go back and look.
41:43: But I think that's what, yes, sir? So was Obed-Edom, I'm kind of going to show my knowledge here, was he of the covenant? I have no idea.
41:53: Okay, I just don't know who the Gittites were.
41:55: They were part of Gideon, which was some conquered land down here.
42:00: But I have no idea, was he a priest? Was he a part of the Levitical priests? I didn't find anything in extra-biblical writing.
42:07: Bert, do you know? I haven't come across anything.
42:10: Yes, I mean, everything would be conjecture.
42:13: I can say this.
42:15: We can assume, okay, even like Abinadab and Eleazar, because they ministered before the Lord, we can assume that Abinadab and Eleazar were part of the Levitical line.
42:30: Okay, not priests.
42:31: You know, there's a difference.
42:32: Okay, difference between a Levite and being a Levitical priest.
42:35: Different.
42:36: He must have known enough not to go peeking around and touching it.
42:39: Yeah, maybe at that point they knew, hey man, there's a tarp over that.
42:44: Don't touch it.
42:45: Don't touch it.
42:46: Don't touch it.
42:47: Now I do wonder, at this point, all this stuff being moved, we know that Shiloh was destroyed.
42:53: What happened to the candlestick? What happened to the showbread? What happened to all those implements and the basins and the censors and all of that? All we see coming back here is the Ark.
43:04: Because you'll see Solomon recreate all those things in the temple.
43:07: He'll pour gold for the new this, the new candlestick.
43:10: Yeah, but we've got 40 years of what's going on.
43:13: Yeah, because David's going to reign for, well, 33.
43:15: 33 years what goes on in that time.
43:18: And just another thing of history, once the Ark is taken from, when the destruction of 586, you know, we don't see the Ark.
43:29: It's like seen in Scripture.
43:33: We have allusions to it, but we never, I mean, they're obviously, whatever they were doing, they were going to the Holy of Holies.
43:41: My opinion, I think that is not the same Ark that was in the temple, for a heritage temple.
43:48: That's my opinion.
43:50: We don't see it again.
43:52: Now we have extra biblical writing with Jeremiah that it's taken to and hidden on the way to Egypt and all of that, but we don't see it again.
44:02: Once the temple's ransacked in 586, we don't see anything of it again.
44:06: We don't see it coming back with Zerubbabel, which I think is very significant.
44:10: Remember, Zerubbabel comes back.
44:12: They're going to start building the, they set up the brazen altar at the foundations of the temple.
44:18: They set up the brazen altar, sacrifice, they start laying the foundations, and even after they get the temple built again, you know what we don't see? We don't see the Ark coming back.
44:28: And it's just, it's significant of, you know, in silence, what is it saying? Had it been destroyed in the ransack from Nebuchadnezzar? We don't know.
44:40: We just know it never says it comes back.
44:43: So.
44:44: And you'll see them to like New Testament, so with John's father, when he goes in there, that Holy of Holies would not have included the Ark, presumably.
44:56: Like Zechariah.
44:57: I would say yes.
44:58: But it wasn't the one that was in Solomon's Temple.
45:02: Remember, Solomon's Temple was the one that was destroyed.
45:03: Zerubbabel comes back.
45:05: We know that all of the implements and stuff go to Nebuchadnezzar, but we don't ever see it come back.
45:10: And even when they were dedicating Zerubbabel's Temple and all of that, it's just to me, I'm reading that, I'm going, man, that's very significant.
45:18: Man, we're not seeing this.
45:19: Did it have to be? I mean, they had the dimensions.
45:21: They could redo it.
45:22: And they could recommission it.
45:25: But even when something had happened, even at the time of Solomon's, and I'll have to go back and make sure, but even in Solomon's, I don't think the manna nor the rod is there.
45:39: It just says that the tablets were there.
45:42: So something even happens in that time frame.
45:44: Why didn't he? Why weren't those implements still in there? All right.
45:49: Any questions, comments? Outburst of anger.
45:52: Letter to the editor.
45:53: Ride demonstration.
45:56: All right, Mike, you'll close us in prayer.
46:00: Lord, we thank You for Your Word.
46:03: And we pray, Lord, that as we consider our own lives and our own propensities to bow up under Your authority, that we can trust that You are good, You are good all the time, and that You are right, and You are right all the time, because You are righteous and holy God.
46:23: We pray, Lord, that we would be found to be more like You.
46:25: We pray that You would be with Brother Keith as he brings Your Word.
46:28: We pray that You would be with us as we receive it.
46:30: We pray that You would be glorified in all that's said and done.
46:32: We pray this in Christ's name.
46:34: Amen.
46:34: Amen.