The Bible Provocateur
The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: Abigail and David - (PART 1 of 3)
The rich tapestry of Scripture contains countless threads that, when carefully examined, reveal the consistent pattern of God's redemptive plan. In this thought-provoking exploration of 1 Samuel 25, we uncover how the story of David, Nabal, and Abigail serves as a powerful allegory for salvation, divine representation, and the gospel message.
David, a man after God's own heart, sends messengers "in his name" to extend peace and blessing to Nabal—a foolish, churlish man whose very name means "fool." When these emissaries are rejected and insulted, David prepares for judgment, only to be intercepted by Abigail, Nabal's wise and discerning wife who recognizes the authority of the future king and intervenes with humility and wisdom.
This narrative contains striking parallels to our spiritual journey. David represents Christ, sending messengers ahead of him just as God sends His representatives to extend the gospel of peace. Nabal embodies human foolishness and rebellion, rejecting divine authority and blessing through pride and self-sufficiency. Abigail demonstrates the humble posture of repentance necessary for reconciliation, serving as a mediator who prevents judgment through her intervention.
As we examine this passage together, we discover a profound truth: "Everything in the Bible is about salvation. More importantly, everything in the Bible is about Christ." The gospel message doesn't begin in Matthew but weaves through every book of Scripture, revealing God's consistent character and redemptive purpose across generations.
What ancient biblical stories have deepened your understanding of salvation? How might you, as an ambassador sent in the King's name, carry His message of peace to those who can't yet recognize His authority? Join us as we mine for gospel gold in unexpected places and find ourselves transformed by the timeless truths hidden in plain sight.
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In 1 Samuel 25, beginning at verse 1.
Speaker 2:Excellent. Then Samuel died and all Israel assembled and mourned for him and they buried him at his house in Ramah and David set out and went down to the wilderness of Paran. Now there was a man in forgive me with the names, in Maon, whose business was in Carmel, and the man was very rich and he had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats, and it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. Now the man's name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail, and the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings and he was a Calebite. That David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. So David sent 10 young men and David said to the young man go up to Carmel and visit Nabal and greet him with my name. And this is what you shall say have a long life, Peace to you and peace to your house and peace to all that you have.
Speaker 2:Now, then, I have heard that you have shears. Now your shepherds have been with us. We have not harmed them, nor has anything of theirs gone missing all the days they were in Carmel. Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore, let my young men. Find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you find and hand to your servants and to your son, David. When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal and in accordance with all these words in David's name, then they waited, but Nabal answered David's servants and said who is David and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master. Who is David and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master.
Speaker 1:Stop there for a second, Angie. Take it from verse 11.
Speaker 3:11. Okay, verse 11. And I'm going to read from my ESV Is that okay Because? I just studied Bible and I can't pronounce some of those names, that's all right, Just read.
Speaker 1:Sister Go ahead.
Speaker 3:Okay, so where are we?
Speaker 5:Let me get there.
Speaker 3:Hang on, okay, okay, shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give them to men who come from I do not know where? So David's young men turned away and came back and told him all of this, and David said to his men every man strapped on his sword, and every man of them, every man of them, strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword and for, and about 400 men went up after david, while 200 remained in with the baggage. But one of the young men told abigail, nabal's wife behold, david sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them. Yet the men were very good to us and we suffered no harm and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields as long as we went with them. They were at a wall to us both night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. Now, therefore, know this and consider what you do, for, uh, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that cannot speak to him.
Speaker 3:Then abigail made haste and took 200 loaves and two skins of wine and five sheet already prepared five seeds of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and 200 cakes of figs and laid them on donkeys. And she said to her young men, go before me. Behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband nabal, and she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain. Behold, david and his men came down towards her and she met and she met.
Speaker 5:Gotta switch my page this is such a good story.
Speaker 3:Um, she, she met them. Now david had said surely in vain have I guarded all of that that this fellow has in in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him and he was returned to me. Evil for good, god, do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if by morning I leave them so much as one male of all of you who belong to him. Keep going. Where did you finish? You finished on. 23 is the next verse.
Speaker 1:OK, no, I'll start right now. Ok, OK. And when Abigail saw David, she hasted and lighted 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, lord, upon me, let this iniquity be. Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thy audience and hear the words of your handmaid. Let not, my Lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he, nabal is his name and folly is with him.
Speaker 1:But I, your handmaid, saw not the young men of my Lord whom you did sin. Now, therefore, my Lord, as the Lord lives and as I so live, seeing, the Lord has withholden thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging yourself with your own hand. Let not your enemies, let your enemies and those that seek evil to my Lord be as Nabal. And now, this blessing which your handmaid has brought unto my Lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my Lord.
Speaker 1:I pray thee, forgive the trespass of your handmaid, for the Lord will certainly make my Lord a sure house, because my Lord fights the battles of the Lord and evil has not been found in thee all thy days. Yet a man is risen to pursue thee and to seek thy soul. But the soul of my Lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord, thy God, and thy souls of thy enemies, them he shall sling out, and as out of the middle of a sling, and it shall come to pass when the Lord shall have done unto unto, when the Lord shall have done to my Lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning thee and shall have appointed the ruler over all Israel, that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offense of thy heart unto that, unto my Lord, either that you have shed blood causeless, or that my Lord has avenged himself, but when the Lord shall have dwelt well with my Lord, then remember your handmaid. So, lisa, pick up at verse 32.
Speaker 2:Verse 32. Then David said to Abigail blessed be the Lord, God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me, and blessed be your discernment and blessed be you who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand. Nevertheless, as the Lord, God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, there certainly would not have been left to Nabal until morning light as much as one male. So David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said to her Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to you and granted your request, peace, See, I have listened to you and granted your request.
Speaker 2:Then Abigail came to Nabal and behold, he was having a feast in his house, like the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was cheerful within him, for he was very drunk. So she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light. But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things and his heart died within him, so that he became like a stone. About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
Speaker 1:Angie verse 39. Angie verse 39.
Speaker 3:And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said Blessed be the Lord who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head. David sent and spoke to Abigail to take her as his wife. When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife. And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord. And Abigail hurried and arose and mounted a donkey and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives. Saul had given Michael his Michael Mitchell, michael Michael, his daughter, david's wife, to Petali, the son of Laish, who was of Gideon or Gileam.
Speaker 1:Gallop, okay, gallop.
Speaker 3:All right, there's a lot of noise in the background or gilliam.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, all right, somebody has a lot of noise in the background. Let's see.
Speaker 1:Okay, somebody has a lot of noise in the background. Let's see. Okay, they stopped that. Okay, that was candy girl, okay.
Speaker 1:So now I know that this was a long chapter chapter to read, and I also know that people on these platforms have the attention span of a flea, but the word of God must be read and we need to make sense of it. So now what I want to do is I want to take this chapter and to and to solicit from all of you your perspective on how what we read here relates to salvation. Everything in the Bible, everything in the Bible, is about salvation. Everything in the Bible is about salvation. More importantly, everything in the Bible is about Christ, who is the means whereby we are saved. So what I want to sort of elicit from all of you is where we see Christ in these passages. Where we see Christ, where we see the Father, where we see salvation, where we see forgiveness. I'm also going to show where we see how we see the end of the world happening. But what I want to do now is try to dissect this passage and get everyone here to sort of reflect on this those of you who are able to look at it, because I know if you don't have your Bible. It's going to be very difficult to do so, but I want to glean from this passage everything that we can that helps us understand from this passage that the gospel is here, that God the Father is here, that God the Son is here, that the devil is here, that the mediator is here. So what I want to do is I'm going to go through these verses and I'm just going to ask people and go around and get your perspective. Going to ask people and go around and get your perspective. The whole idea will not be to tear anybody down for them not having or saying what I think a certain passage is saying. This is not going to be one of those types of messages. I know that on any social media platforms, people everybody wants to be a teacher and they want something to teach. They want to beat somebody over the head with something. But let's take something out of the word of God instead of taking something out of each other. This is what I want to do Out of each other. This is what I want to do Now.
Speaker 1:It says that Samuel died. In the first verse, samuel died, there was lamentation. And it says there was another man whose possessions were in Carmel, and this man was very great and he was rich. He was a rich man. Verse 3, it tells us that this man's name was Nabal. Now, nabal for those of you who don't know Nabal means fool. He was a fool. That's literally what his name means. He's a fool, he's churlish, he's stingy, he's greedy, he's mean, he's rude. He's oby. He's greedy, he's mean, he's rude, he's obnoxious. He's the kind of person that every one of us has dealt with at some point or another in our lives. But Nabal, his name basically means he is a fool. That's what it is. He's a fool he doesn't think straight. That's what it is. He's a fool, he doesn't think straight and he believes that he can do what he wants to do. But this is a man that just shows no concern or concern, no care or concern for anyone. And this man is Abigail's husband.
Speaker 1:Now, it says here the name of his wife was Abigail, as I just said in verse 3. She, on the other hand, in contradistinction to her husband, was a woman of good understanding. She was beautiful, and it says but the man was churlish and evil in his doings. He's not an honest man either. He's not an honest man either. He's not an honest man, no-transcript.
Speaker 1:So it says in verse four that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal sheared his sheep. David had heard about this man, he had a reputation, it preceded him and David got wind of it. Now, no doubt one of the reasons why David got wind of him is because a lot of Nabal's men for whatever reason that's not outlined here, that some of his, some of Nabal's men were working with David and David's men, and this comes up later, we're going to see this. But it says in verse four that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. This was particularly appealing to David because he would want to go to him and ask for his assistance with his own flock. So in verse five it says David sent out 10 young men and David said unto the young men go up to Carmel and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.
Speaker 1:So now everybody listening. So I know it's been, I know it's been a little bit, so now I'm getting ready to start opening it up to everybody else. So far we have we have Abigail, we have Nabal, who's a fool, and Abigail is a good woman and a good, and a woman of good understanding and intelligence and beautiful. And now we have David. So at the outset, at the outset, what I want people to start doing is, in this particular passage, think about, when it comes to our salvation, where does Nabal fit? Who is he? Where does Abigail fit? Who is she? And where does David fit? And who is he? And I'm talking about in relation to our salvation? I'm asking you to think a little bit more about how you can extrapolate from this Old Testament passage, as we should do in every Old Testament book Look for the Lord Jesus Christ, in every book of the Bible, because he's there Everywhere and this passage is not lacking in overtures as to where we might be able to find Christ in this passage.
Speaker 1:So now it says that David was in the wilderness. He heard about Nabal. He sent 10 of his young men to go to go meet with Nabal and the first thing David says to his men greet Nabal. In verse 5. 1 Samuel 25, verse 5. David tells his 10 young men that he sends to Nabal. He tells those young men to go and greet him Nabal, that is, greet him in my name. So now I'm going to ask the question. The first question is this what does David mean when he says greet him in my name, meet, greet him in my name, mitch. What do you think, brother? What does he mean? Greet him in my name, what does he mean?
Speaker 6:Greet him in my name. I would say I want to greet him in his name because I'm pretty sure he knew of King David. He realized that he is the king when he greet him and to greet him in his name. So that's, that's what I take from it.
Speaker 1:All right, mariah, what do you think?
Speaker 3:what is it what?
Speaker 5:what does this, what does this make you think about when he said when david tells his men to greet nabal in his name I think that it means like kind of like in the setting that you're saying, or you're giving, or illustrating that like Jesus when he tells the disciples to go in his name. That's what I'm gathering, all right.
Speaker 1:I like it. I like it, Angie. What do you think?
Speaker 3:In the same thing. It's like a representation. I'm sending you in my name, greet him in my name. Yeah, a representation. He's representing the king. So also, too, wouldn't that be like the father sending Jesus in his name and him doing God the Father's will?
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, amen, todd, what do you think, brother?
Speaker 4:Um, I was looking at the part where he says have long life, peace to you, peace to your house and peace to all that you have. And to me God is saying that. The Lord is saying that you can have all of that in my name. That's kind of what I read into it. And when you go get the salutation, you're inviting people. When you go witness or go share the word, you're basically witnessing, like that. That's kind of what I'm taking from it.
Speaker 1:But OK, so you're going someplace that I want to go, so take that a little further. So take what you said and infuse that direction that you started with, with David saying to his young man greet Nabal in my name. Right, there's one little extra piece that I want to get at, because I think that the ladies so far nailed it Mariah and Angie, yeah, they did, I totally would agree.
Speaker 4:And so I look at it from the other end too. You know what I mean. They're all kind of combined. I feel like when you present the Lord, this kind of conjures up different kinds of emotions. I'm sorry, but it's kind of like you know, it's not about damnation and hellfire, it's kind of like this is you know, this is the Lord who is saving, who is loving, right, and so like when you go in my name, you're offering a salutation. That's really cool, like peace to your house, blessings to you. You know, I am David. We're representatives of David, the King.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the Lord.
Speaker 1:Okay, brother Mark. What do you think brother Mark you there he might be.
Speaker 2:Lisa, sister, what do you think? So I go along with Angie and Mariah and I was looking at when he said you shall say have long life, peace to you and peace to your house. He's offering what the Lord offers us when we accept him and when we put our faith in him.
Speaker 1:What is he offering us?
Speaker 2:He's offering us life. We're dead in our sin when he said a long life. Jesus offers us life. With him we get peace. We get the peace that surpasses all understanding when it comes with him. If he would, if he would accept, you know he would accept the offer we're. You know, you know right now.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you the question because let me tell you something, I I'm really enjoying these answers here because they're they're all um, they, they are all in my opinion and I'm in agreement with everybody here. But he says David says to greet Nabal in my name, to greet him in my name. In other words, you're representing him and David is saying make sure when you go there, make sure you know whose name you're coming in, make sure he knows that I'm the one, that I'm the one that you are representing Now. So when we so, when we take this part, how do, how do you, how can any of you relate this to us as ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ? What does this suggest to you as a minister of Jesus Christ? What is it that we are supposed to do? What is it from what we're talking about now? How is it that we're supposed to represent? Let's start with Mariah. What do you think, sister?
Speaker 5:Sorry, my earpiece dropped, I mean my AirPod. Can you think, sister? Sorry, my earpiece dropped, I mean my airpod. Can you please repeat?
Speaker 1:Correct. So what I'm saying is that from this passage here, verse five and six, because we got a little hit on six, but that's all right because it was needful. What does this tell us? When David tells his 10 servants to go to Nabal and greet him in my name, when the Lord sends us out, how does this relate to us? What I'm saying is draw a parallel between us and the 10 that David sent out.
Speaker 5:Anybody I'm sorry, I thought I was speaking.
Speaker 1:No, no, go ahead. Are you ready, yeah?
Speaker 5:and thus shall you say to him who lives in prosperity peace be to you, peace be to your house. I think of him being, or saying that he is peace. He is the one that gives rest. But I probably should think about this verse for a second.
Speaker 1:That's no problem. Think about it, it's fine. There's no rush, there's no rush. But here's the issue. Here's what I'm trying to do. What I'm trying to do is frame everyone's attention to where we are in this story. Okay, so what I'm saying is imagine if we are one of the ten men that David sent, that David sent, and he tells us to go to Nabal, who's a fool, a churlish man, an evil man, right, and it says and so what I'm trying to get, what I'm trying to get us to understand, is, and it says and so what I'm trying to get us to understand is how do we relate this passage to us as witnesses, as us being sent by our Lord?
Speaker 3:We're ambassadors to Christ, we're supposed to spread the word. We come in his name, in him, as ambassadors representing him, to spread the word.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. And, mariah, what were you going to say, sister?
Speaker 5:Well, I think of, like people who live in prosperity. They think that they have peace, they think that they have all they think, but they really don't know the truth and peace in their home and all that they truly do have. So I think that they are fools who live in prosperity because they think that they need not have or they need not anything else, but they don't know that they're truly missing peace within their home and peace within all that they do have. So we would go out and when we go out, in his name, we were telling them though you are prosperous or you feel that Peace shall you have and peace shall be in all things that you have, Right, so here's.
Speaker 1:So here's something that I'm seeing, here's something that I'm saying. It's clear that Nabal is a foolish man. It's clear. We see this even in his name.
Speaker 1:David recognizes that this man is well to do and that he could be useful to him. So David sends out 10 of his ambassadors, like Angie said, and he says go to him and greet him in my name. So here's where my mind goes, so that I can help, so that I can try to like shape how people here may respond for the upcoming things. But I see this way. I see nabal as this evil person, this sinner, this ungodly, this ungodly man and dav. David sends out his ambassadors and says greet him in my name. And then in verse six it says and thus shall you say to him that lives in prosperity. Peace be both to you, peace be to your house and peace be to all that you have. So I think that in a lot of ways I can see us in this passage as emissaries for our Lord going to speak to the lost so that they can turn around from their ways, and we present a gospel that brings peace. The gospel is good news and the gospel is the gospel of peace, is it not?
Speaker 7:Can I say something? Sure, go ahead, preacher. So I look at it as a way that David is saying come on into my house. In other words, bring others, and if we want to bring it, you know, 4,000 years forward or thereabouts, we're supposed to bring those who are disaffected, those that are following down the wrong way of life as far as our gospel is telling us, and bring them into the house of God so that they can learn to be abiding within God himself. So David doing that is inviting his enemies pretty much to join with him in a better life that he knows by serving God.
Speaker 1:Right, and I think that's a good perspective. See here's what's happening serving God. Right, and I think that's a good perspective. See, here's what's happening. But the only difference is here David is sending his people to Nabal. Nabal hasn't seen his face yet. David is sending his men ahead of him, right, and he says go to him, greet him in my name and then tell him that he's going to be at peace. Basically, I look at it this way the Lord sends us his people. He sends us to go out and he sends us out before he comes. Everybody with me so far.
Speaker 7:Yeah, it's kind of like I tell people I'm the shepherd, y'all are the sheep, only sheep can make sheep. Shepherds can't make sheep.
Speaker 1:That's true. So David is saying listen, I'm here. I heard about this guy, nabal. He seems to have a good thing going on. I'm interested in having fellowship with him. So go, greet him in my name, tell him that I come and that I mean peace. Basically, I want you to go to him with all of my blessings. Isn't that like what God is doing to us blessings? Isn't that like what God is doing to us? God sent Christ to come and reach us. God didn't reveal himself to us the way that some of us think we want to meet him, but what he did was he sent his son, raped in human flesh, like these servants, to go and address Nabal and say hey look, I'm cool with you, I have no beef with you, there's some things that we can do together. So these are my servants and they come with you with my message, meaning that I mean nothing but good for you. I mean nothing but peace for you. I mean nothing but prosperity for you.
Speaker 7:Isn't there a good parallel in the New Testament in the story that Jesus told about the wedding feast? Now we're going Keep going with it. So the people who were supposed to have come, who thought they were something else you know that their stuff didn't stink they decided they weren't good enough. And so Jesus sends us, tells he's talking about the father, and I may be misquoting here, but he's telling the father is telling his servants to go out into the street and invite everybody that can breathe into the thing to to enjoy the banquet. Amen. So it's kind of a parallel there, don't you think? This just occurred to me, actually, as you were speaking.
Speaker 1:Look, brother, I think it, I think it is, I think it is good. And this, this, this is exactly the kind of stuff I'm fishing for. See, here we are. We are in the gold mine, mining for gold. This is what I want us to do, because this is exactly the type of things I'm looking for Looking for how this passage in the Old Testament, buried in the middle of the Old Testament, how do we see the gospel in it? How do we see christ in it? How do we see sin and salvation in it? And you know, and so many people regard the old testament with, with, with disdain, thinking, well, it's not necessary. Now I'm not part of that covenant anymore, but if you read, you will find out nothing has changed. Nothing has changed.
Speaker 5:Different people, different times, different generations.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, Candy Girl. What were you saying?
Speaker 5:Different people, different times, different generations Same thing. Repeat rerun, let's get her done.
Speaker 7:So now, david, I will say this real quick it should give you a bit of comfort to know that we are as stupid as they were 4,000 years ago. We're worse.
Speaker 1:That's the reason why, Because we have more light than they did.
Speaker 7:Yeah well, there you go. Turn on the light. Turn on the light, there you go.
Speaker 6:But I would say this too, also, john, just to add to it. Okay, I also believe that you know when the law enforcement shows up to your house, they show up in the name of the law and they have the full backing of the state to do whatever they need to do to enforce whatever.
Speaker 6:So when they went out and presented him themselves to him as coming in the name of the king. They also had the same power the king gave unto them to do blessings. Yes, Nathan Nabon, in the same course. Just as you know, believers are sent out, you know that possess the strength of God to bless, that they know we are from him. You know, like in Antioch, when they they, they called him. You know, like in Antioch, when they do, they call them Christian, because they knew they had been with Christ. I learned of him. So it's the same thing. I see the same thing as they being sent out and coming in there, going to him in the name of the king, because that was a specific reason for him to tell him that we're coming in the name of the king, because that represents something.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, isn't that?
Speaker 5:kind of like Jeremiah too, where God tells him to go in his name and basically don't speak. So he puts his hand over his mouth, but when he speaks, it's god speaking through him absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1:But I think I think this is really good, especially because of what, what like. I like what mitch says, because david, david knows who he is, david knows who he is, and so, and he knows that Nabal knows who he is. So, nabal, so David is telling him. I want you to understand something.
Speaker 1:I have a reputation that I don't lose wars, I don't lose battles. David's reputation is that he is a stellar winner. This is a man who the bible said, who the word of god tells us had it was a man after god's own heart. God said it about nobody else but david, nobody else but david. So david was a special person and a good example of who Christ is. And so we see here in this picture, david sends his messengers and he says listen, you guys, go ahead of me, because if I go now it might be too overwhelming. Go to him, let him know that I'm coming, but let him know that I'm coming in peace, and I wish nothing but the best for you, for you, your family and everything that you have. David was blessing this man from a distance and he sent this man, his emissaries, to let him know that I'm coming. But don't worry, don't run, don't be afraid, because I'm coming in peace.
Speaker 5:I want to. What's that, sister?
Speaker 1:Absolutely, they were preparing the way. Now my sister said preparing the way. I like that expression, lisa. What does that harken to in your mind? Preparing the way?
Speaker 2:John the Baptist Amen.
Speaker 1:Ahead of Jesus, amen, amen. And what was John the Baptist telling people?
Speaker 2:Repent for the kingdom is at hand.
Speaker 1:Amen, he was laying, he was preparing the path. See, this is what I'm trying to get us all to start looking at when we see this passage and anywhere in the New Testament, in the Old Testament, pull these things out, all right. Yes, sir, go ahead, brother Mitch.
Speaker 6:I would also say too, you know when you use and repent for the kingdom of heaven at hand. Now, everybody didn't receive that, that's true. It was only for who it was for. So when he sent, and looking at the analogy, when he sent him to Nabal, with the greeting salutations also, it was a test, also because we knew that Nabal is a fool. And how would he receive my men, or would they even have a chance to get to him and tell him what? Thus says the king? If not, then I'm coming with violence. There will be no talk, there will be nothing. I'm going to come and I'm going to take you out, nathan, you and your neighbor, you and your family.
Speaker 6:So if it goes according to plan, like I have said, just as you know, john coming to make the way straight and all this kind of stuff. Well, those that do not accept John's work will be destroyed.
Speaker 1:Well, so you're making a good point, brother, because we're going to find out that what you're saying is exactly what is going to happen.
Speaker 5:Yeah.