Brian Luke – I Have Set My Affection To The House Of My God – Class 6 – The Great Congregation

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I’d now like to call on our
brother Brian to give the sixth

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session In dealing with the
overall subject, I have set my

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affection to the House of my
God.

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He’s entitled this session.
The great congregation, Brother

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Brian.
All looking very bright and

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healthy.
After a.

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Long day yesterday.
You may remember that we

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actually didn’t look at chapter
24.

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So I’m picking up chapter 24 and
chapter 27 this morning and

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hopefully a little bit of
chapter 28 before memorial

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meeting now in chapter 23, just
to get our bearings again.

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In chapter 23 it told us about
the Levites, the 38,000 of them.

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And in verse 13, among the
Levites, of course, was the sons

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of Aaron.
So verse 13 of chapter 23 said

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the sons of Amram, Moses and
Aaron’s father, and Aaron was

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separated, that he should
sanctify the most holy things.

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That’s point #1 to to burn
incense before the Lord #3 to

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minister unto him, and #4 to
bless in his name forever.

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So the blessing that was placed
upon Israel like in number six

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that we that we use at the time
of baptism, that blessing was by

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Aaron.
If you look back in #6 you’ll

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see that that was the case.
And then there’s the the list of

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all of the other Levites and of
their particular duties, verses

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24 down to verse 32.
And we looked.

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Briefly at those yesterday, but
in chapter. 24 we have the

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division of the Sons of Aaron.
So it’s picking that section up

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and bringing it through to
chapter 24.

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And the next chapter will be
about the singers.

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So you can see it’s quite an
ordered construction, isn’t it?

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It’s really reorganizing all the
main events of the Levites and

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the the National events of that
nation.

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He he’s reorganizing it and
putting on a sound foundation.

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As we saw yesterday, that plan
is going to continue through

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then for hundreds of years.
So these were very significant

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chapters for the Israelites.
Now these are the divisions of

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the sons of Aaron.
He had four sons, Nadeb and a

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Bayou, Eliezer and Ithema.
But then it explains that they

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were suddenly produced, but
Native and Abiahu died before

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their father and had no
children.

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Therefore Eliezer and Iphemiah
executed the priest’s office.

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That is a pretty remarkable
thing to read, isn’t it, that

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the high priest had four sons
and lost 50% of them?

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And we know the record it’s
given in Leviticus chapter 10.

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It really shows that God is no
respecter of persons, doesn’t

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it?
The high priest suddenly lost

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two of his sons.
Record is in Leviticus chapter

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10.
So when you read this chapter

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next time in Leviticus chapter
10, make a little note for it

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that Native and Abiahu are
really the first and second

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sons.
The high priesthood would have

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come to native.
It’s his name means willing by

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you means he is my father.
They were given names that the

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that Aaron would have liked to
have thought were Speaking of

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their their good attitudes
towards the things of God.

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That he lost both those boys.
And the occasion is recorded

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this way.
And native and Abiahu the sons

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of Aaron, took either of them
his sensor, and put fire

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therein, and put incense
thereon, and offered strange

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fire before Yahweh, which he
commanded them not.

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Now the command was, that if
they put the coals upon the

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incense, that those coals should
come in the altar of burnt

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offering.
So that prayer that was offered

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up unto God, and this was the
idea of it should come from a

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willing path, the burnt offering
was to offer oneself unto God.

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Prayer that is not like that is
not acceptable to God.

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But they must have taken the
coals from somewhere else.

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Perhaps there were kitchen fires
or home fires and they thought,

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oh, well, you know, that’s
convenient, that’s easier to get

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to.
So they took some coals from

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there, which is here described
as strange fire.

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It wasn’t a dedicated fire to
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That’s instructive, isn’t it?
Very instructive.

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There’s sometimes when our
prayers may seem very domestic,

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very tired, perhaps because
we’re finding it difficult to

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concentrate like last night.
But but God wants us when we

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lift our voice up unto him.
And if we speak to him, he wants

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us to be all there, to be
offering a burnt offering.

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Our heart is going toward him
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It’s a real challenge now it
says in verse 2.

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And there went out far from the
Lord and devoured them, and they

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died before the Lord.
If you just pass your eye out

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the column, you’ll see in verse
24 that verse that we looked at,

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in fact yesterday, didn’t we?
There came a fire out from

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before the Lord and consumed
upon the altar the burnt

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offering and the fat which when
all the people saw, they shouted

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and fell on their faces.
That was God’s acceptance. 2

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verses down, it’s God’s
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So God can be either for
acceptance or for our

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condemnation.
And that dramatically

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illustrates that fact.
Now Moses always clear minded,

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saw the point of that.
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This

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is it, that Yahweh spake,
saying, I will be sanctified in

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them, that come nigh me, and
before all the people I will be

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glorified.
And Aaron held his peace.

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What if you can imagine what a
tragic name?

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What for?
Yeah, his first and 2nd borders

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set to be the high priest in
turn were now struck dead before

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his presence.
He had to hold his faces.

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Remember the law said that he
wasn’t in fact to be involved

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with their their death.
He wasn’t to mourn it with their

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death.
How could a father not mourn at

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the death of his two sons, but
because the work he was involved

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in was sanctified before God and
of extreme importance, therefore

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he had to keep his mind upon
that service, even though before

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him were these two borns who
were dead.

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And it seems that the reason for
that was that they were

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inebriated with strong drink.
Because out of that event it

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says in verse 8, Yahweh spoke
unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink

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wine, nor strong drink thou, nor
thy sons with thee, when you go

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into the Tabernacle of the
congregation, lest ye die, bless

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ye die.
It shall be a statute forever

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throughout your generations.
And that ye may put difference

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between holy and unholy, between
unclean and clean, and that ye

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may teach the children of Israel
all the statues which Yahweh had

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spoken unto them by the hand of
Moses.

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And Moses has spoken to Aaron,
and unto Elie Isa, and unto

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Idema his sons.
That’s the other two boys.

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See, take the meat offering that
remaineth, and so on.

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So those two boys now take over
where their older brothers had

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in fact perished.
What a terrible story, that one.

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Well, very well to read it,
isn’t it?

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But it was a terrible story, you
know, that laid the foundations

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for atonement, the principle of
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This father.
There it turned out to Leviticus

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chapter 16 is what it seems at
first a peculiar heading to this

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the legislation in Leviticus 16
of the Day of Atonement.

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And there it says in verse one.
And the Lord spake unto Moses,

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after the death of the two sons
of Aaron, when they offered

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before Yahweh, and die.
And Yahweh said unto Moses,

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Speak unto Aaron thy brother,
that he come not at all times

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into the holy place, within the
veil before the mercy seat,

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which is upon the ark, that he
die not, For I will appear in

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the cloud upon the mercy.
Seat.

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What was the principle of that
occasion?

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Principle was as Moses picked it
up in verse 3 of chapter 10.

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I will be sanctified in them
that come nine me and before all

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the people I will be glorified.
That’s a very interesting thing

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because if you would be asked
what’s the the principle

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principle as given in the New
Testament concerning the

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atonement, you would say that it
declares the righteousness of

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God.
That’s what you’d say and you’d

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be right.
Romans 3/25/26 is false.

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Coming to the crux of the
matter, and that’s what he said

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to declare, I say at this time
repeating it, His righteousness

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or the forgiveness of sins of
the past.

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And that’s exactly the same
thought that verse 3 is exactly

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when we declare his
righteousness, we sanctify him

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and that’s what God wants.
And that becomes the rider to

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the Day of Atonement in
Leviticus 16.

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Not one set of rules for
atonement, the old another set

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of rules that atonement you.
It’s obviously the same

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principle.
That’s very interesting.

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Well, that’s why back in
Chronicles now, Native and

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Abayahu are commented as having
died before their father.

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And they must have been
relatively young men because it

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then says they had no children,
so there was no future

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generation in their life.
That meant their two younger

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brothers had to come up and take
their place.

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Now the first of these was
Eliezer and the second was

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Ithema.
Now they’re not living of course

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in the day, but David when this
is written, they were back in

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Moses time, but they had each
their line, the Eliezer line and

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the Ithema line that had come
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And David distributed them both
the Zadok of the sons of

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Eliezer, verse 3, and a Himelec
of the sons of Ithema, according

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to their offices in their
service.

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So obviously the eldest son in
the line of Eliezer was now a

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man called Zadok, which means
righteousness.

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And in the line of Ithema, the
man who was the eldest in that

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family at this time of David’s
life was Ahimelech.

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So Zadok and Ahimelech were the
modern day representatives in

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David’s life of those two lines
of the sons of error, it says.

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And there were more chief men
found of the sons of Elijah than

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of the sons of Ithmah.
And thus were they divided among

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the sons of Elijah.
There were 16 chief men of the

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House of their fathers, and
eight among the sons of Ithmah.

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How many does 16 + 8 make?
So these are 24.

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Again.
That’s pretty consistent, isn’t

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it?
You see in the next chapter

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there’s 24 groups of singers.
The very real logic of that

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would be that as a group of
priests are going in on their

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course, I don’t know how, how
often it was, but there’s 12

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months.
And if there were 24 orders, I

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suppose it’s reasonable to say
they, their term would come each

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year for a fortnight of that, of
that period.

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And so as they went in, there
would be a company of of new

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singers, players on the
instruments that would have come

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from him.
So the offerings were given with

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song and praise.
It was a beautiful concept.

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And undoubtedly that’s the kind
of thing that’s going to prevail

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in the future.
The temple is going to be a

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place of prayer for all nations,
but people want to come because

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it will be a lovely atmosphere
in that place.

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And thus were they divided by
lot.

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It says in verse 51 sort with
another for the governors of the

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sanctuary and governors of the
House of God.

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The word governors is the word
for Princess.

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It’s the word SAR SAR.
You’ve got it in the word

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Israel, a Prince with God and
it’s a very general earth.

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You look across to chapter 28.
You see, it’s used all through

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this verse.
Chapter 28, verse one David

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assembled.
All.

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The Princess of Israel, the
Princess of the tribes, the

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Princess of the cap of the
company.

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The verse is actually translated
differently. the AV has

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translated differently as you go
down, but it’s actually the same

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word that ministered to the king
by corpse and the captains.

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That’s the same word.
The Tsar over the thousands,

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Captain Tsar over the Hundreds
and the stewards Tsar.

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Over all the substance.
Possession of the king.

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Their sons would be officers.
And that’s the same word again

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with the mighty men and all the
the valiant men hunt Jerusalem.

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So it’s a very general word to
speak of those who were in high

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office in positions of great
respect.

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So if we could bring that back
to chapter 24, verse 5, you will

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see that the priests were not
just not just priests, they were

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Princess.
They were highly recognized

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people, they were king priests.
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governorship about them.
And so that also of course shows

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it’s it’s own way to the future,
doesn’t it?

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If we just at this point come
through to Revelation Chapter 5,

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you’ll see that I’ve referred to
this obliquely a couple of

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times, but just see how clearly
all these things are brought

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together.
In Revelation chapter 5, I

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beheld and lo, in the midst of
the throne, verse 6 and of the

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four beasts, and in the midst of
the elders stood a lamb as it

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had been slain, having 7 horns
and seven eyes, which are the

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seven spirits of God sent forth
into all the earth.

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And he came and took the book
out of the right hand of him

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that sat upon the throne.
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the four beasts and the four and
20 elders, a person who read

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that would have immediately,
surely from the first time it

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was read, would have thought of
the 24 that goes all through

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those chapters and chronicles.
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They fell down before the Lamb,
having every one of them harps

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and golden vials full of odors,
which are the prayers of Saints.

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So there’s the office of the of
the priest in the offering of

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incense, which is the prayers of
Saints interpreted.

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And they sung a new song, so
that the singers and the players

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and instruments, this is a new
song that’s never been sung.

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With immortal liberty.
Thou art worthy to take the book

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and to open the seals thereof.
For thou wast slain, and has

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redeemed us to God by thy blood,
and of every kindred and tongue

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and people and nation.
So there’s 24 because they were

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taken from not just Israel of
old, but from the new Israel

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from all nations of every
kindred and tongue and people

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and nation.
This made us unto our God, kings

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and priests, and we shall reign
on the earth.

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So all of these officers are
combined together in a new order

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of 24 elders, symbolically
expressed.

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That’s.
Beautiful, isn’t it?

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Though we can see that these
things clearly are a prototype

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of things to come.
So if we come back to First

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Chronicles 24.
Again, you notice here that

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David knows about protocol.
He knows the wisdom of of wise

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protocol.
I just mentioned again, in

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earthly life, don’t be
apprehensive about having some

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protocols, not something that’s
stiff and rigid about something

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that’s warm and godly and
sanctifies God’s name in our

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assembly.
That’s a good thing.

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And David could see the the
virtue of that.

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You know, I’ve never really seen
anything that’s LAX and

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lackadaisical.
I’ve never seen that grow.

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I’ve never, ever seen something
that’s casual and indifferent

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growth.
I have seen something where the

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zeal and enthusiasm, desire to
keep things up, I’ve seen that

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grow.
I’ve never seen the other

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growth.
Have you?

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It just dissipates.
Children come along and sell

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them.
Well, that’s all.

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That’s been the reason.
Oh, well, I’ve gone off the gang

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of baseball.
Let’s do that.

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But where there’s a zeal and
enthusiasm to keep something up

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and a sanctity, then that is
what seems to grow.

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It’s a great lesson in our
present world.

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In First Chronicles 24, verse 6,
it says and Shemaya, the son of

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Nephenille the scribe, one of
the Levites, wrote them before

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the king.
Now isn’t that interesting?

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He wrote them before the king.
See how David was?

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He’s a clever.
Man, wasn’t he?

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This wasn’t going to be
inaugurated in, you know, some

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back backroom where there was
just these men present.

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It would be done properly in
front of people that that those

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young men would really be
affected by how important their

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office office was and how
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So he wrote the.
Before the and the Princess, and

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Zadok the priest, the high
Prince and a hymbal his

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companion.
The son of A by that’s the two

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that are mentioned in verse 3
and before the chief of the

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fathers of the priests and
Levites, the older man 1

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principal household being taken
for Eliezer and one taken for

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Hippamah.
And it was decided by not the

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first lot came forth to Jehoiah
River, the second to Jedi Iah.

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Now some of these were from the
House of Eliezer originally, and

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some from the House of Ithema.
And eight of them were from

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Ithema, and 16 from the House of
Eliezer.

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And so their names are given
from verse 7 down to verse 18.

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These were the orderings of them
in their service, verse 19, to

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come into the House of the Lord,
according to their manner under

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Aaron their father.
As the Lord God of Israel had

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commanded, so God perpetuates
therefore the lion of fear.

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And it says, And the rest of the
sons of Levi were these of the

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sons of Amram, and so on.
And it gives her a description

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of all of these people.
And you think, well.

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Why has this been?
Put on on the end, there’s some

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that have come from of Amram
verse 20 and he’s the oldest son

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of Kohabis.
And in verse 22 of the

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Israelites.
Well, that was Kohad’s second

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child and R.E.M., Isha, Aziel
and Hebron, those four children.

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So Hebron’s mentioned in verse
23 and Aziel’s mentioned in

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verse 20. 4.
So again, there’s order in it,

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but we left out the other parts
of the Levites know.

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Verse 26.
The sons of Murali were Mali and

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Mushi and so on.
The Sons of Murali by Jezia.

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Verse 27.
So they’re all brought into the

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picture.
Then it says why he’s mentioned

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these names.
These were obviously principal

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people of the Levites.
Well, verse 31 says these

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likewise casts lots over against
their brethren, the sons of

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Aaron in the presence of the
same people that are mentioned

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in verse 6.
They cast lots over against

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their brethren, the sons of
Aaron in the presence of David

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the king.
Verse 6, David the king, and

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Zadok and Himilek verse 6, Zadok
and Himilek.

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And the chief of the fathers of
the priests and Levites is verse

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6 again, even the principal
fathers over against the younger

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brethren.
Isn’t that interesting?

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That really is interesting.
So here we’ve got all these

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heads of the other Levites.
They were the ones that cast

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lots.
You might say, well, why don’t

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you just get one man to cast
lots?

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That’d be good enough, wouldn’t
a couple of lovely little

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proverbs about about the lots.
Proverbs 18, verse 18.

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The lot causes contentions to
cease and part it between the

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mighty.
Chapter 16, Verse 33 The lot is

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cast into the lap, but the whole
disposing thereof is of the

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Lord.
The lot is cast into the lap,

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but the whole disposing thereof
is of the Lord.

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And so contentions were to cease
on that basis.

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And the way it was done was He
was the king and he was the high

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priest and his companion were
both main families.

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And then there were the chief of
the fathers of the priests and

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the Levites, older men and these
other men here that were chosen

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from the other branches of Levi
versus 2030.

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They were the ones that cast
them off.

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So I guess that what that means
is that not one individual did

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all of that.
You know what casting the lot

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is?
You take the various names into

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into the lap and the lap is is
shaken and then somebody comes

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and takes a name from that.
What do you think God did it

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like that?
Doesn’t really say why he did it

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except.
That it made contentions to

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cease.
But I suppose there would be

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always a sort of jockeying, you
know, where are you in the line?

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Oh, I’m first or on 28th.
Oh, but I’m a lot better off.

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You’re 24th down the line, but
if it was done by the lot,

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nobody could argue could that
and remember that down the line.

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This became a very contentious
thing because the priesthood was

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a, was a a.
Prize in the days of Jesus and

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the Sadducees had bought that,
hadn’t they Remember how that

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that they had actually bought
that because a wealthy group of

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people.
And because they had the

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priesthood, they therefore had
the power.

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But this way it was all done in
the open.

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There was the king, 2 main
branches of the Levites and

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other people came along and they
exercised the lot in front of

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these principal people.
So when you think about this

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very wise thing, wasn’t it?
There’s all those names, you

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think, well, why are they
mentioned?

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But verse 31 is the key.
Like they likewise cast lots

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over against their breath.
So it was brethren casting lots

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about their breath, so that
although they were going to be

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not priests, these others from
Merari and from Amram and so on,

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although they were not going to
be priests, yet nevertheless

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they were involved in the very
selection of the priesthood

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because God was working through
them through the lot.

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And wasn’t that a wise thing?
Who could therefore call in

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question the matter?
Or those who weren’t priests,

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could they call in question the
matter?

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No, they were involved in the
process by which the priests

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were put into their particular
order.

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It was a very wise thing, wasn’t
it?

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Extremely wise, the way that was
all put together.

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And so these younger men were
inducted into their office with

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general accord of all the
Levites.

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There was a participating role
of all the Levites that were

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represented in that choice.
And the order wasn’t gone that.

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Was a very wonderful thing.
All right, let’s come over to

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the chapter that we read this
morning.

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Chapter 27.
Passover, the singers and the

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porters, as we know Bill
Keepers, and we come now to the

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the children of Israel after
their number, to which the chief

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fathers and captains of
thousands of hundreds and their

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officers that serve the King in
any matter of the courses.

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Which came in and went out month
by month throughout all the

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months of the year of every
course were 20 and 4000.

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Now there’s twelve of these
mentioned, and they go from

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verse 2 to verse 15, verse 15,
the 12th cup to.

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The 12th month was still down
so.

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They’re on a monthly routine.
It’s a course of one month.

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Just keep your hand there.
Samuel had told them about this

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in First Samuel Chapter 8 when
they had requested a king.

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He saw very clearly what this
would mean.

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In First Samuel chapter 8.
You can’t have a Kingdom unless

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you’re going to have a lot of
personnel involved.

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A Kingdom is a great thing, but
it requires a great deal of

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public service.
In chapter 8 verse 10, when they

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had cried for king, God had
said, give them one.

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Samuel told all the words of the
Lord unto the people that asked

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of him a king, and he said, This
will be the manner of the king

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that shall reign over you.
Get it straight, he said.

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You want a man over you, but
this is what it means.

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It doesn’t mean just choosing
one man.

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You know he lives in his own
salary.

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When you have a king, you’re
going to have to keep that

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royalty up.
He will take your sons and

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appoint them for himself, for
his Chariots, to be his

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horseman, and some shall run
before his Chariots.

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Which is exactly, of course,
what Absalom did and a donager

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did when they usurped the
Kingdom.

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Those very phrases are used 50
million to run before them.

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He will appoint him captains
over thousands and captains over

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50s and will set them to ear his
ground and to reap his harvest.

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Oh yes, he’s going to have his
own grounds.

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He’s going to have very big
kitchens.

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He’s got to have a whole lot of
people cooking in those

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kitchens.
He’s got to have food.

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So he’s going to have to point
people over, over the

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territories which he will take
to himself.

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So some of your grounds going to
have to go to him to ear his

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ground and to reap his harvest
and to make his instruments of

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war and instruments of his
challenge.

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00:28:55,440 –> 00:28:57,960
And he’ll take your daughters to
be confectionaries and be cooks

434
00:28:57,960 –> 00:29:00,200
and to be bakers.
And he’ll take your foods and

435
00:29:00,200 –> 00:29:01,640
your vineyards and your olive
yards.

436
00:29:01,880 –> 00:29:03,120
Even the best of them, of
course, the king.

437
00:29:03,120 –> 00:29:04,560
‘S going to have the best he’s
going to have second.

438
00:29:04,760 –> 00:29:07,680
Second best and give them to his
servants.

439
00:29:08,600 –> 00:29:11,280
Take the 10th of your seed and
of your vineyards, and give to

440
00:29:11,280 –> 00:29:15,200
his servants.
He’ll take your men servants and

441
00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:17,200
your maidservants and your
goodliest young men.

442
00:29:18,040 –> 00:29:21,040
There’s someone around him
that’s got a broken leg or a bad

443
00:29:21,040 –> 00:29:22,840
foot or something.
He’s going to have a young man

444
00:29:22,840 –> 00:29:25,880
and all his health and strength
and your ass and put them to his

445
00:29:25,880 –> 00:29:28,000
word.
Take the tent of your sheep and

446
00:29:28,680 –> 00:29:32,120
he shall be his servant.
That’s true.

447
00:29:33,240 –> 00:29:36,160
Can’t have a Kingdom unless
you’re going to keep it up.

448
00:29:36,800 –> 00:29:46,040
So in Chapter 27, we have the
means by which in David’s day

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00:29:46,240 –> 00:29:48,880
that was going to be kept up and
he had it organized.

450
00:29:48,880 –> 00:29:50,160
And this is an interesting
thing.

451
00:29:50,600 –> 00:29:53,560
He had it organized on a monthly
basis.

452
00:29:54,160 –> 00:29:56,800
And the question that comes to
you is then, well, what about

453
00:29:56,800 –> 00:30:01,160
the other eleven months when
they weren’t in the King’s

454
00:30:01,160 –> 00:30:04,760
service?
Well, they were back on their

455
00:30:04,760 –> 00:30:08,200
own properties.
That’s interesting because we

456
00:30:08,200 –> 00:30:12,760
have a public service that have
grown used to the fact that one

457
00:30:12,760 –> 00:30:16,040
of the endless discussions of
government is how big the public

458
00:30:16,040 –> 00:30:18,440
service.
One party comes in and cuts it

459
00:30:18,440 –> 00:30:21,600
down, the other party comes in
and builds it up again, and so

460
00:30:21,600 –> 00:30:22,880
it goes on.
Much the same in the US.

461
00:30:22,880 –> 00:30:25,680
It’s been a phenomenon in our
lives.

462
00:30:26,080 –> 00:30:28,080
But see the wisdom of this.
There was no.

463
00:30:28,280 –> 00:30:31,440
Permanent public service man for
11 months.

464
00:30:31,480 –> 00:30:35,480
He stood on his own feet.
He came in in a privileged

465
00:30:35,560 –> 00:30:40,400
position about the King’s
service month by month.

466
00:30:40,600 –> 00:30:43,400
Verse one of all the months of
the year.

467
00:30:44,360 –> 00:30:48,240
But he wasn’t permanent as a
Leech on the whole.

468
00:30:48,440 –> 00:30:51,960
Rest of the society, which is
the great gripe we find in our

469
00:30:51,960 –> 00:30:56,840
communities.
Public service grows yawns with

470
00:30:56,840 –> 00:31:00,840
the ineptitude, and so it draws
the resources of the of the.

471
00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:04,000
Society to itself, until
eventually society said look,

472
00:31:04,000 –> 00:31:06,640
get that, get that down.
It’s far too big a problem on

473
00:31:06,640 –> 00:31:08,960
our backs.
David didn’t have that.

474
00:31:09,960 –> 00:31:13,000
Very wise, wasn’t it?
How do you think things are

475
00:31:13,000 –> 00:31:15,480
going to be in the Kingdom?
People and sisters, we were

476
00:31:15,480 –> 00:31:18,360
going to learn that principle to
stand on their own feet and yet

477
00:31:18,360 –> 00:31:22,080
to give service to the central
administration.

478
00:31:22,800 –> 00:31:26,120
I’m sure this is a feature
that’s going to be corrected in

479
00:31:26,120 –> 00:31:27,520
the future in the Kingdom of
God.

480
00:31:28,320 –> 00:31:31,960
Very interesting.
Now it says in verse 2.

481
00:31:32,120 –> 00:31:34,600
Over the first course, for the
first month, who was?

482
00:31:35,360 –> 00:31:40,960
Joshua Bean, the son of Zabiel,
and in his course were 20 and

483
00:31:40,960 –> 00:31:44,960
4000.
So each one of them had 24,000

484
00:31:44,960 –> 00:31:48,600
men in his group.
It’s a fair number of men,

485
00:31:50,440 –> 00:31:52,720
24,000.
It’s nothing like the the

486
00:31:52,720 –> 00:31:55,680
enormous numbers of public
service that we have in our

487
00:31:55,680 –> 00:31:57,480
society, isn’t it?
But represent a very large

488
00:31:57,480 –> 00:32:00,560
percent actually of the whole
community.

489
00:32:01,800 –> 00:32:09,160
It was 24 each month.
And you know, most of these that

490
00:32:09,160 –> 00:32:14,160
are mentioned were chief men in
David’s mighty.

491
00:32:15,240 –> 00:32:18,360
For example, if you look up see
it says Joshua.

492
00:32:18,800 –> 00:32:24,280
And if you notice in your margin
it says Chapter 11 verse 11 or

493
00:32:24,280 –> 00:32:28,800
Second Samuel 23 verse 8.
Doesn’t say that in your margin,

494
00:32:28,800 –> 00:32:32,160
but I’ve written that in Second
Samuel 23 verse 8.

495
00:32:34,360 –> 00:32:37,440
But can you remember?
What Second Samuel 23 was about

496
00:32:40,280 –> 00:32:44,960
David’s mighty men.
So these were all men of the

497
00:32:45,080 –> 00:32:47,840
army?
Not all, but most of the men of

498
00:32:47,840 –> 00:32:51,280
the army.
So the army too wasn’t a

499
00:32:51,280 –> 00:32:55,680
standing army too.
So you didn’t have a defence

500
00:32:55,680 –> 00:32:57,120
department.
You had to keep up with the

501
00:32:57,120 –> 00:33:03,120
massive amounts of money.
These that were the men of the

502
00:33:03,160 –> 00:33:08,920
army were also involved in the
the district in the general

503
00:33:09,000 –> 00:33:13,600
running of the Kingdom.
It says in verse one that served

504
00:33:13,600 –> 00:33:18,520
the king in any matter of the
courses which came in and went

505
00:33:18,520 –> 00:33:23,840
out month by month.
So aren’t just army men.

506
00:33:24,600 –> 00:33:29,000
They served the king in all
aspects of his royal

507
00:33:29,000 –> 00:33:32,920
administration.
So there’s things to be done up

508
00:33:32,920 –> 00:33:36,480
in the North and there was
concerns then the men that

509
00:33:36,480 –> 00:33:39,760
24,000 they would have to be
sent by the king or portion of

510
00:33:39,760 –> 00:33:41,880
them.
They’d be sent by him to look

511
00:33:41,880 –> 00:33:43,720
after that matter, see what was
going on.

512
00:33:44,560 –> 00:33:47,920
If there was further stores
needed for whatever it might be

513
00:33:47,920 –> 00:33:50,720
and some organization was
required, then it’d be those men

514
00:33:50,720 –> 00:33:53,360
who were on that month, they had
to go and look after that event.

515
00:33:54,480 –> 00:33:59,680
So a lot of the a lot of the
people and from every tribe

516
00:34:00,080 –> 00:34:03,000
became involved in that central
administration.

517
00:34:03,880 –> 00:34:05,960
Nor could they say it’s mine
alone.

518
00:34:06,440 –> 00:34:10,159
Corruption would be very little
because whilst you were doing it

519
00:34:10,159 –> 00:34:11,840
this month, somebody else did it
the next.

520
00:34:12,679 –> 00:34:14,600
Time, and so it got passed on
down the line.

521
00:34:14,600 –> 00:34:17,159
Very different to the day where
public servants.

522
00:34:17,159 –> 00:34:20,679
Often are the government.
We have this, it’s another gripe

523
00:34:20,679 –> 00:34:22,960
of society, isn’t it?
But you know, a minister comes

524
00:34:22,960 –> 00:34:26,800
into his office, but really he’s
not really government place

525
00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:28,320
because he’s he doesn’t know
anything about it.

526
00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:30,360
He wasn’t in Washington to do it
a month ago.

527
00:34:30,719 –> 00:34:33,159
And now he’s running this big
department and all the heads of

528
00:34:33,159 –> 00:34:35,159
that department, they just get
on top of him and tell me what

529
00:34:35,159 –> 00:34:37,639
he’s doing.
And that’s what happens.

530
00:34:37,639 –> 00:34:40,760
In Australia, it’s the same.
They often say the government’s

531
00:34:40,760 –> 00:34:44,440
really the permanent principles
of the public service.

532
00:34:44,639 –> 00:34:49,080
Well, not so here.
These men were therefore

533
00:34:49,120 –> 00:34:51,719
unknown.
And then somebody else came and

534
00:34:51,719 –> 00:34:53,639
did the job.
You know, the whole thing is

535
00:34:53,639 –> 00:34:57,360
wise, isn’t it?
And it kept down the the

536
00:34:57,400 –> 00:35:01,840
permanent burden upon the feet,
kept taxation down, which is of

537
00:35:01,840 –> 00:35:04,640
course, a resentment in any
community.

538
00:35:06,240 –> 00:35:08,440
All right, look at verse 4 then.
Here’s the next one.

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00:35:09,160 –> 00:35:13,680
And over the course of the
second month was Dodei and Ahoa

540
00:35:13,680 –> 00:35:16,840
height.
I don’t like the marginal.

541
00:35:16,840 –> 00:35:27,400
Rendition of his name for.
You I think we’ll go with Dodei.

542
00:35:28,600 –> 00:35:31,080
Otherwise it it might be a bit
of a drew.

543
00:35:32,640 –> 00:35:40,960
No, that’s the Hebrew SO.
But it says and of his course

544
00:35:40,960 –> 00:35:46,320
was Mclaugh also the ruler in
his course likewise was 24,000.

545
00:35:46,880 –> 00:35:50,680
Well, to make the point that it
it was from among the great men

546
00:35:50,680 –> 00:35:52,120
of David.
Look at verse 5.

547
00:35:53,120 –> 00:35:54,720
You’ll remember his name, won’t
you?

548
00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:58,960
The third captain of the host of
the third month was Benaiah, the

549
00:35:58,960 –> 00:36:04,720
son of Jehovah, a chief priest.
And then his course were 20 and

550
00:36:04,720 –> 00:36:06,560
4000.
Now that’s an interesting thing.

551
00:36:07,120 –> 00:36:12,600
He’s a chief priest.
He’s a captain of the host,

552
00:36:13,040 –> 00:36:16,800
Jarab Abishai Benaiah.
In fact, he was the most

553
00:36:17,120 –> 00:36:19,440
faithful.
Of the three of them when Jarab.

554
00:36:19,440 –> 00:36:23,560
Finally turned to sight who was
loyal for the IT was Benaiah.

555
00:36:24,440 –> 00:36:28,640
So he was a mighty man in the
army, but he was also one of the

556
00:36:29,240 –> 00:36:32,840
12 appointed to this month 3
service of the king.

557
00:36:33,600 –> 00:36:37,320
So it just helps you to see how
the whole thing worked and so

558
00:36:37,320 –> 00:36:39,160
on.
It goes right through to the

559
00:36:39,160 –> 00:36:44,600
12th captain in verse 15.
He was held AI the the tophotite

560
00:36:44,640 –> 00:36:46,880
of Octane.
But again.

561
00:36:48,080 –> 00:36:50,920
If you look across in your
margin for where it says held

562
00:36:50,960 –> 00:36:53,800
AI, there’s a little 3 in my
Bible.

563
00:36:54,360 –> 00:36:57,280
It may have a different letter
takes you across to the margin

564
00:36:57,280 –> 00:37:01,360
and it says or helled.
Chapter 11, verse 34, Second

565
00:37:01,360 –> 00:37:06,000
Samuel 23, verse 29.
So again, he was a he was one of

566
00:37:06,000 –> 00:37:10,360
David’s money.
So they weren’t just big Tufts

567
00:37:10,360 –> 00:37:14,520
of the army.
They were responsible officers

568
00:37:14,520 –> 00:37:20,960
of the realm and therefore were
able to conduct their affairs

569
00:37:20,960 –> 00:37:25,240
properly and to keep these
24,000 men.

570
00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:27,760
That would come into Jerusalem
that month.

571
00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:30,240
Can you imagine?
That’d be a very busy, very busy

572
00:37:30,240 –> 00:37:32,240
event.
The end of each month there was

573
00:37:32,280 –> 00:37:36,240
24,000 men coming in from their
homes, leaving their wives,

574
00:37:36,240 –> 00:37:39,200
their children and so on in the
service of the king.

575
00:37:40,280 –> 00:37:41,720
And he would then have to pick
them up.

576
00:37:41,720 –> 00:37:45,640
There must be a place where
they, they’ve registered and the

577
00:37:45,640 –> 00:37:47,800
others left and took their
belongings with them.

578
00:37:48,080 –> 00:37:50,680
And these 24,000 then came into
their barracks.

579
00:37:50,680 –> 00:37:53,440
I suppose it was at the
register.

580
00:37:53,480 –> 00:37:55,120
Had to be there on time.
They were there then.

581
00:37:55,480 –> 00:37:57,520
For the next month.
Isn’t that interesting?

582
00:37:58,400 –> 00:38:01,520
Really interesting thing.
It’s quite unique, isn’t it?

583
00:38:01,520 –> 00:38:04,000
I can’t think of anything else
you might say.

584
00:38:04,000 –> 00:38:05,720
Well, you know, if they were
there all the time, they’d have,

585
00:38:06,280 –> 00:38:09,200
they’d have more idea of how
things were done.

586
00:38:09,480 –> 00:38:11,920
But if they were there more all
the time, there’d be a lot more

587
00:38:12,080 –> 00:38:15,440
corruption and self-serving, as
we well know.

588
00:38:16,000 –> 00:38:18,440
So in this administration, it
was kept down.

589
00:38:19,520 –> 00:38:22,520
Samuel was right when he said it
would if they would take their

590
00:38:22,520 –> 00:38:24,680
sons.
But the way David organized it

591
00:38:25,160 –> 00:38:30,360
limited that considerably.
What about the tribes?

592
00:38:30,360 –> 00:38:33,080
Because that’s that supra tribe,
isn’t it?

593
00:38:33,120 –> 00:38:38,320
That’s not on a tribal basis.
It’s gone beyond the tribes.

594
00:38:38,440 –> 00:38:42,440
And that’s what Solomon had.
He had an organization that was

595
00:38:42,440 –> 00:38:47,200
beyond the tribes so that they
lost that sense of just being.

596
00:38:47,640 –> 00:38:53,200
In their own little tribe, they
had an overall concept of their

597
00:38:53,200 –> 00:38:55,880
nation.
But there were leaders of the

598
00:38:55,880 –> 00:39:01,360
tribes, it says in verse 16.
Furthermore, over the tribes of

599
00:39:01,400 –> 00:39:08,000
Israel, the ruler of the
revenites was Eliza, the son of

600
00:39:08,000 –> 00:39:12,520
Sikrim of the Semenites,
shepherd Tyre, the son of

601
00:39:12,520 –> 00:39:15,440
Maiatha.
Now who in the future is going

602
00:39:15,440 –> 00:39:21,040
to be the ruler of the tribes?
Reminds you, doesn’t it, of the

603
00:39:21,040 –> 00:39:24,960
words of the Lord Jesus.
In Matthew chapter 19.

604
00:39:34,420 –> 00:39:38,740
This is the office which in the
future will be held by none less

605
00:39:38,740 –> 00:39:45,980
than the apostles themselves.
So Matthew 19 verse 28 Jesus

606
00:39:45,980 –> 00:39:48,740
said unto them, Verily I say
unto you, that ye which have

607
00:39:48,740 –> 00:39:54,260
followed me in the regeneration,
when the Son of Man shall sit in

608
00:39:54,260 –> 00:39:59,680
the throne of His glory, he also
shall sit upon 12 Thrones,

609
00:40:00,600 –> 00:40:08,320
judging the 12 tribes of Israel.
So that would seem, wouldn’t it

610
00:40:08,320 –> 00:40:13,480
to be the same kind of office
which this 12 people are

611
00:40:13,760 –> 00:40:17,640
mentioned in First Chronicles 27
enjoyed in years gone by.

612
00:40:18,360 –> 00:40:19,960
You know there’s another little
background to that.

613
00:40:19,960 –> 00:40:23,560
Not interested to notice this.
Come to Psalm 122.

614
00:40:24,200 –> 00:40:27,760
The Lord’s words were not sort
of out of the blue so much as

615
00:40:27,760 –> 00:40:33,480
what we might think.
In Psalm 122 there was an

616
00:40:33,520 –> 00:40:37,720
earlier reference to something
very akin to that very

617
00:40:37,720 –> 00:40:46,320
interesting little reference.
I was glad when they said unto

618
00:40:46,320 –> 00:40:48,040
me, Let us go into the House of
the Lord.

619
00:40:48,040 –> 00:40:51,000
Our feet shall stand within thy
gates, O Jerusalem.

620
00:40:51,360 –> 00:40:55,880
Jerusalem is billed as a city
that’s compact together, whither

621
00:40:55,880 –> 00:41:01,920
the tribes go up, the tribes of
the Lord unto the testimony of

622
00:41:01,920 –> 00:41:04,200
Israel to give thanks unto the
name of the Lord.

623
00:41:04,440 –> 00:41:09,040
For there are set Thrones of
judgment, the Thrones of the

624
00:41:09,040 –> 00:41:14,760
House of David.
The tribes go up and there are

625
00:41:14,760 –> 00:41:19,320
Thrones of judgment, the Thrones
of the House of David.

626
00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:25,360
Jesus says he shall sit upon 12
Thrones, judging the 12 tribes

627
00:41:25,360 –> 00:41:28,880
of Israel.
That’s has its overtures in

628
00:41:28,880 –> 00:41:33,320
verse four and five.
Now notice that those Thrones

629
00:41:33,320 –> 00:41:37,400
are not through the different
tribes as Ezekiel depicts them

630
00:41:37,480 –> 00:41:41,240
in their cantons in the future,
those those Thrones are in

631
00:41:41,240 –> 00:41:44,400
Jerusalem, for there are set
Thrones of judgement.

632
00:41:45,320 –> 00:41:49,240
There might be Israel in their
cantons, but their Thrones of

633
00:41:49,240 –> 00:41:51,760
judgement will be in Jerusalem,
as the Lord has said.

634
00:41:52,760 –> 00:41:54,800
That’s interesting when you just
put one passage.

635
00:41:54,840 –> 00:41:56,360
I’m sure that he would have had
that in mind.

636
00:41:56,360 –> 00:41:59,280
Sure of it.
Put the passages together, they

637
00:41:59,520 –> 00:42:05,040
they dovetail in.
Well in David’s day, verses 16

638
00:42:05,360 –> 00:42:09,640
to 22 we have mentioned of the
names of those who were over the

639
00:42:09,640 –> 00:42:13,400
12 tribes.
I just want to pick up one

640
00:42:13,400 –> 00:42:16,400
that’s very interesting.
It’s in verse 18.

641
00:42:17,160 –> 00:42:18,840
Who do you think was put over
Judah?

642
00:42:20,960 –> 00:42:29,120
It says Elijah, and again your
margin says Eliab, and that’s

643
00:42:29,120 –> 00:42:35,800
what the revised version says.
So also just the Septuagint of

644
00:42:35,800 –> 00:42:41,240
Judah Eliab.
And it says that because the

645
00:42:41,240 –> 00:42:44,200
next little phrase is one of the
brethren of David.

646
00:42:45,240 –> 00:42:46,920
Now that’s a really lovely
little touch.

647
00:42:47,600 –> 00:42:51,360
Who was alive?
What do we know about Eliab?

648
00:42:52,680 –> 00:42:55,160
We know about two incidents.
Don’t worry about Eliab.

649
00:42:55,680 –> 00:42:59,800
The first is in verse Samuel
chapter 16 and the other in

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chapter 17 and in the first one
he comes before Samuel and when

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Samuel sees him he says why?
What a dashing.

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Youth upstanding, tall and good
looking board.

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Surely he says, the Lord’s
anointed this performance, and

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God told him, as he said of the
next two brothers as well, or

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all of the other brothers.
Look not on His statue, nor on

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the height of His countenance,
for I have refused him.

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I’d be statue in all of this
count, but I have refused.

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The Lord looketh not upon the
outward appearance, but the Lord

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looketh upon the heart.
A liar would have really felt

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that.
Wouldn’t he would have to go to

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the side of the room and wait?
Until the other little.

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Boy was brought in from the
sheep, the young mandate, and he

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did feel that, as perhaps he had
felt resentment towards David’s

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spirituality many times.
Because there they are now in

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the next scene in first Samuel
17, and David comes with the

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cheeses and other things to his
brothers, and he speaks to the

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king and he can’t, he can’t for
the life of him understand why

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Israel is standing there.
Why?

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Why?
Why Goliath and denigrates the

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glory of the God of Israel and
of the people.

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Of Israel.
And so in First Samuel 17 verse

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28, Eliab said this.
His eldest brother he heard when

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he spake unto the men what David
was saying.

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You know what shall be done to
the man that killeth the

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Philistine.
But who is this uncircumcised

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Philistine that he should defy
the armies of the living God?

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His older brother heard this,
you know, this chirp coming from

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his little brother as he as he
looked upon him, and he felt

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embarrassed by all of this.
You know who’s he think he is,

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But you know inwardly you must
have known.

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That if there was a person that
could do anything about that

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circumstance, it was his younger
brother.

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But because it was his younger
brother, he resented the fact of

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his intrusion.
You couldn’t have a boy like

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David in your family.
Except you would know that he is

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exceptional.
You just think about that.

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If in your family, your own
personal family, there had been

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one of the members of that
family who was like David, you

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wouldn’t know it, wouldn’t you?
When anything came up about the

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things of God, he was hot, he
was king.

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He was perceptive in mind, he
was engaging in heart, he was

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responsive to his father.
Whatever duties were there, he

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was king and enthusiastic.
He was first of all a man of

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God.
You would know that that that

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young brother or that son was an
exceptional person in your

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opinion.
You’d know that, wouldn’t you?

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You couldn’t help it when he
came and told the story about

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the lion and the bear.
Did you believe it or not?

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Burst through the door, as it
were.

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Dad, do you know what happened
today?

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I mean, he would have said that,
wouldn’t he?

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He’s only a young boy and you
would have had to look at him in

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the eye and think.
Now does he?

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Really mean that or not.
And you’d know that he really,

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he really meant it.
He really meant it.

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And how could you doubt the same
as Saul when Saul listened to

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him?
I’m sure Saul believed that what

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that young man was telling him
was right.

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You look in his eye and it was
dead king, sincere, as though it

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was a deep world.
That boy meant what he said.

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The lion came and the bear came,
and he stripped them and had the

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evidence to prove it.
Well, imagine if one of your

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brothers came and he said that
to you.

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He wouldn’t doubt him, would
you, that you know, the foolish

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thing was that they resented
him.

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That was a tragic.
I’ve become a stranger unto my

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mother’s children, it says in
Psalm 69.

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And an alien in his own family.
And that’s why they left him

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out.
When you think about this

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record, it’s an incredible
record.

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What Samuel came with it with a
horn of oil to anoint one to be

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king.
Everyone in that family knew who

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was the boy who should be king,
who was the godly boy in the

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family who had the ability with
men, who was God fearing.

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That’s him.
They all knew that.

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They had to know that Jesse
couldn’t have not known.

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But the brothers said nothing,
and the father did nothing and

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left him out there in the
wilderness.

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Until then, they’re shamed.
They had to wait, standing there

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waiting for hours until somebody
found him out with the sheep

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holding him into that assembler.
And then he came, unwashed,

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unclean.
As it were.

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Straight out of the field, but
God said this is the one.

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I think if we had a boy like.
That in our family we would know

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well look at a lion.
Verse 28 His eldest father heard

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when he spake unto the men and
their lives.

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Anger was kindled against David.
He said, White King, was thou

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down hit her?
And with whom hast thou left

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those few sheep in the
wilderness?

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Probably saying it loud so
everybody could hear.

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This is no worry.
It’s just a kid that looks after

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a few sheep.
I know thy pride and the

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naughtiness of thine heart
without come down, that thou

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mightest see the back.
Never did a brother make a worse

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assessment than a lion made of
his youngest brother.

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The naughtiness of thine heart.
What did God say?

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A man after mine own heart.
Chapter 13.

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Verse 14.
You know, beautiful.

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That was his.
Brother’s assessment.

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God’s assessment.
Absolute opposite.

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Because he judged according to
the outward appearance and not

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according to the heart.
So that’s interesting because

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when we turn over to chronicles
that 27th chapter again, David

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again is shown to be one who
doesn’t.

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He doesn’t hold gripes and I’ll
feeling he gets over and overdue

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that it is able to spark.
Isn’t that a beautiful thing?

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But a plenty of other men
undoubtedly in Judah that were

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outstanding.
But he appointed his own star.

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That’s a beautiful little note
part.

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All the history is gone.
And that’s if he appoints all

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right now in verse 25 through to
verse 34.

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It also had an interesting
record, didn’t you think?

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Remember the words of Samuel,
how he said the king would have

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all these different areas of
responsibility and interests?

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Well, there they were, all
listed for us in verse 25.

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To 34.
And as you build it all up in

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your mind, see Jerusalem there’s
the King beautiful House of

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cedar and he’s levelling the
ground.

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Is he not already to to prepare
for the the temple and he’s gone

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00:49:54,320 –> 00:49:58,320
over it when he’s walking stick.
I’m sure many many times seeing

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it all in his mind.
He saw it the very first time.

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God said to me that this, when
the fire came down, he said this

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is the House of the Lord God.
So that’s going to be soon on

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the horizon.
And yet already all these other

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things have been built up from
David’s. 40.

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Years over the treasures was as
mobile and over the storehouses

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00:50:22,200 –> 00:50:27,200
in the fields, in the cities and
in the villages and in the

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castles.
So he built castles, he had

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00:50:31,840 –> 00:50:36,040
storehouses in the various
fields and in the cities of

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00:50:36,120 –> 00:50:40,960
Israel there was abundance of
food, a tight season, but they

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00:50:40,960 –> 00:50:46,600
still had enough food wise
provision, wise provision, and

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00:50:46,600 –> 00:50:50,000
over them that did the work of
the field for tillage of the

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00:50:50,000 –> 00:50:52,000
ground with Esri, the son of
Chello.

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So all that, So what cultural
side of his life required for

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00:50:56,960 –> 00:51:01,560
the public service, for those
who were about the palace, the

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vineyards?
Verse 27.

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And then over the wine.
Cellars.

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There was the Zampa, the
Shipmark, Shipmark and the olive

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00:51:13,040 –> 00:51:18,000
trees and the Sycamore trees
that grow in the in the South.

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And they still do.
If you go down there and you’ll

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00:51:19,400 –> 00:51:22,240
find Sycamore trees on the
plains of the Philistines.

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And then there was the Cellars
of oil.

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And then there was this purge in
verse 29 in Sharon, that lovely

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00:51:30,840 –> 00:51:33,960
plain along the coast.
Can you get a picture of my dear

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friends?
This is all these areas of

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00:51:36,240 –> 00:51:38,840
interest and activity that all
had to be maintained.

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00:51:39,720 –> 00:51:44,080
The herds that were in the
valleys, cattle upon 1000 hills.

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00:51:44,400 –> 00:51:48,880
They like the slopes don’t
there’s 29 over the camels.

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There’s the the asses, beasts of
verdict and over the flops with

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00:51:55,880 –> 00:51:58,400
a table of the King.
And for offerings.

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00:51:59,640 –> 00:52:02,560
All these were the rulers of the
substance, which was King

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00:52:02,560 –> 00:52:07,120
David’s, and so his other
principal officers are

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00:52:07,120 –> 00:52:12,000
mentioned.
That’s all the organization at

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00:52:12,000 –> 00:52:16,040
the end of the chapter 27.
In chapter 28, then, he brings

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00:52:16,040 –> 00:52:20,200
that to a grand finale in what
we might call the closing scene

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of his life, and our exhortation
will take up that next picture.