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Speaker 2: Pair Cheney for twenty twenty three. Why were four of
your top donors Indian people not living in Frisco or
even Colin County and donating five thousand dollars to you?
Speaker 3: If religion is built from worlds, then AI will take
over religion.
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Free America. Here's the Emerald City, Xie Todd Herman.
Speaker 1: Today is today the Lord has made, and these are
the times through which God has decided we shall live.
You may think you're watching protests in Minnesota. They are
not protests. This is a very well organized attempt to
create an insurrection in the United States of America. Not
like January sixth, which is a bunch of people who
got out of hand. This is mechanical, it's systematic, it's
well done. In any and All of my friends who've
been in special forces tell me this is how it's done.
We've done insurrections in other countries. It starts small and
it builds up big. Right now, it's about countering law enforcement,
federal law enforcement, but the tactics and tools they're using
are training a group of people how to topple a government.
It's about what they call tiny infantatus. De Arresting a
person is a tiny little infantada, and it's eventually the
big infantada of topping the United States government. If we
cannot name our enemy, we cannot counter our enemy. And
there's people on bould sides. Incidentally, I want to see
the United States toppled and rebuilt. Just before he went
out and got into the tussle that ended his life
with law enforcement, Alex Pretty done some other things. What
are the signs that we're seeing here is taking people
like this and linizing them like MSNBC did with tweaking
his photo so we looked more handsome and had biceps,
or CNN ignoring this until they were forced to report it.
Alex Pretty was not dealing for the first time with
federal law enforcements.
Speaker 5: And it is learning that Alex Pretty had a physical
encounter with federal agents about a week before he was
shot and killed by law enforcement. Sources tell CNN that
Pretty broke a rib when a group of federal officers
tackled him while he was protesting now.
Speaker 6: In this earlier incident, he stopped his car after observing
ice agents chasing what he described as a family on foot,
and began shouting and blowing his whistle. Pretty later told
one of these sources that five agents tackled him and
one leaned pat on his back, appearing to leave him
with a broken rib. According to this source, and I'm
quoting here that said quote that day, he thought he
was going to die now preddie was later given medication
that is consistent with treating a broken rib, according to
records were viewed by CNN's versus also say that he
was known to federal law enforcement, though it's unclear whether
it was this incident or as lone.
Speaker 1: As aggressive to federal law enforcements. He should have been
known because he joined a signal chat with people who
are teaching the tools of an insurrection. It is how
to operate secretly, how to have encrypted channels, how to
team up in cells, so they're difficult to discover the
leadership of how to armed oneself to go out and
create chaos. The whistles, those things are not just about
warning neighbors that there's ice in the area. It's about
affecting the prefrontal cortex of the people trying to affect
a law enforcement arrest. It makes it more difficult to
make decisionsens the stress, it makes things seem more dangerous,
and it affects the prefrontal cortexas of all the people there,
causing them to make bad decisions, like, for instance, walking
up to shove a federal agent away from affecting an
arrest or, as Alex Perty did, getting out in the
middle of the street and appointing yourself traffics are and
directing traffic. It's incredibly sad this guy's dead. It's incredibly
sad to see a young man lose his life or
give his life to a cause like this, which was
in fact defending people who were legally bound for deportation,
many of them very very dangerous people. I'll show you
what Andy No found out because he got into this
signal chat. He's one of a few people who got
into this. He credits as well. One of his colleagues
and independent journalists, Cam Higbee, will show you this in
a second. One of the people you could talk to
about this if you ever want to, is go talk
to Tim Krukchenk, founder and CEO Bone Frog Coffee. He
was a Navy seal. He did three deployments on our
behalf as a seal in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
And before the seals go in, we send in teams
of people to prep atn environment to create an insurrection
against Saddam Hussin or against the Taliban, to give them
tools like encrypted comms, to teach them how to disrupt
the government. We've done it there, now it's being done here.
Ask Tim about it. He has a view on this
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off subscription coffee. So Andy No is one of the
people who got inside the training documents used by these extremists,
and what he saw inside is paranoia. He saw inside
their encrypted chatrooms in organizing mass mobilization against the US government.
Did you hear that last part, mobilizing mass organization against
the United States government. If you look into the training
document and you see the steps it suggests for people,
it's about this things like this without good reason. Do
not use your full name as signal name. Create a
relatively unique alias, not just alias instead of John Smith
used JS eight six y two meter or dog person
or just John. If you absolutely must turn off phone number,
look up. It's illegal to risk. It's a legal risk
to have it turned on. Tap on the three disks
to go through all the directions on this. Do not
share private identifiable information, legal name addresses in signal groups.
Do not put anything in signal you not want to
be read back to you by a lawyer. Only share
signal links and this sheet on signal. Then they go
through this signal structure and then they go through what
they're looking for. Rapid responses, alerts only, organizational discussions. These
are the things that should happen there. Ice Watch. Many
ICE related signal groups are built around this non violent
taxing for responding to ICE actions. Currently, events typically unfold
in this way. When ICE or EO R or CPB spotted,
some people follow to monitor and others allow to know
where ICE is going. They're taking license plate numbers, they're
taking identities, they're taking numbers. They're doing troop counts, troop locations,
troop capabilities. They're feeding back in the sort of intel
you would want if you were going to go launch
an actual physical attack. There's more than this. Where are
they staying at night, who are they with? How can
we identify them on the spot. They're building facial recognition databases,
they're building automobile recognition databases, and according to cam Higbee
and others like James O'Keefe. They have spotters in hotels
and probably in government and in police departments and in
the mayor's office. Insurrections are not just about disruption. It's
about planting people in positions to be able to help
you with this disruption. Here's this anti ice watch training video.
Cam Higbee got a hold of this. This is them
training people how to go do more of this. This
is organized, top down, leading people into a bigger insurrection,
just starting on a small basis.
Speaker 7: Now, listen not to the noise, not to the spin,
not to the comment sections. Listen to your body. That
tightness in your chest, the heat behind your eyes, the
tremble in your hands, that is not weakness. That is
your conscience still working. When I say they, I am
not speaking in code today, I mean the Trump Administration's
Immigration Enforcement Apparatus ICE, DHS Border Patrol, and the political
leadership directing and rewarding these tactics. We are here today
because something has gone wrong, and has gone wrong on purpose.
Speaker 1: So this guy's an organizer. What is he doing. He's
helping people organize their minds. He's helping them to think
of their bodies in a different way. Think of the
panic response in a different way. We'll go back to
him here in a second, because he's going to ask
you to harness this. He's there to be the papa,
the daddy. This is the leader. This is the cult type.
We're working for him. And look how calm and cool
he is, and he's helping us be common cool. He correct,
He continues for about a minute.
Speaker 7: Here in Minneapolis, in places you reside, in places you
can name, and in places you cannot. And before I
say anything else, I need to say this plainly, the
people of Minneapolis are not the problem. The courage people
have shown, the discipline, people have practiced, the way neighbors, educators, organizers,
and every day folks have refused to look away. That
is what leadership looks like. Renee Goods should be alive,
Alex Bretti should be alive, and the people who have
died in DHS custody and at the hands of Ice
and Border patrol across the country should be alive.
Speaker 1: He is reaffirming your decision to join the resistance, because
look at what you are preventing, and look what they
intend to do to you. So they gather troop numbers,
troop locations, troop capabilities, what equipment do they have, what
do their faces look like? What are their license plate numbers?
They practice doing this through encrypted apps, so it can
be redone on a city by city basis. When they
launch something like this for real, it will come after
a couple of terrorist attacks. And I've talked about this
countless times, all these techniques they've used to stop traffic,
getting out of their cars and waving signs. Eventually, this
is what I would do if I were them. Eventually
some of those cars in front have IEDs in them
and they blow up, and some of the cars behind
have IEDs in them and they blow up. And then
they start doing the going around and unliving people. Seems
like a movie plot, seems like an obvious tactic they
could take. Now, as Christians, we have to not lose
the spiritual battle. It's easy to hate people who want
to take down your country. We can't do that. In fact,
we have to pray for them and love them. That's
the hardest thing to do. But we also need to
remember that much of this is spiritual. We may not
be able to prevent all the physical harm. We almost
certainly cannot, but we can prevent ourselves from being spiritually harmed.
This comes out of Frisco, Texas, and it's a pretty
cool question. And people can listen to this and say, oh,
it's a racist question. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no
no no. Listen to the end. Listen to the end.
Speaker 2: A four hundred and fifty percent increase in donations above
one thousand dollars from people with Indian last names. That
seems like a flagged to me. Now, let me ask
a few questions to the mayor and city council that
I don't expect you guys to answer, but I'm gonna
ask them anyway. Mayor Cheney for twenty twenty three, why
were four of your top donors Indian people, not living
in Frisco or even Collin County and donating five thousand
dollars to you. I don't understand why someone would donate
to a mayor that doesn't represent them, unless that mayor
represents business interests that make them money. I'm sure it's
just a coincidence that all of you are in real
estate business and those four donors have over one hundred
and fifty eight businesses registered in their name.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting alignment. A whole bunch of people who
happened to be Indian, some of them presumably Indian American
donating to a mayoral campaign for a guy who's in
real estate and apparently the boards in real estate and
they have all these businesses. And then people donating outside
of their districts. Was USCID a one way thing. Was
just our money being laundered through USID and going out
of the country. Oh no, it wasn't. It helped bring
organizations into our country. Those organizations have turned into lobbing
machines in our country. It's a two way deal. So
much of what we're seeing is being based upon financial fraud,
which brings us back to the control methodologies. You know
that central bank digital currency guys. That would make it
really really difficult for the Somali fraud series to get
away with what they're doing. Really difficult because after all,
with the central bank digital currency, you couldn't spend money
by sending it to Samoia because we just stop it
at the source. This is an effort to control you.
And there's a test run here, and there's going to
be a test run on the Republican side that already
happened in a vote, so let's start with James O'Keefe.
He writes urgent update. I've never experienced anything quite like
today in my life. I've interacted with the cartel, and
I've witnessed some crazy things in the desert in twenty
four But what strikes me is how organized these agitators
in Minneapolis are. They have spotterers everywhere in the city
and suburbs, on street corners, even thirty minutes away from downtown.
They have people at hotels that work with them and
signal to them, which made it difficult for us to
lose our tails once our cover was blown. Usually I
lose the tail, not this time. We switched locations three times.
I recorded and posted this while leaving Weizada, and they
were still surveilling. We all agreed we must make the
threats public asap, even if we still had people in
the field with hidden cams. Around noon, while at cam
Higbee released his report on the signal threads, I was
inside what appeared to be a fully autonomous zone, no
police presence. The police were told to leave. I identified
myself as Press, and they said they will kill Press
and not let me leave. My skin was fully covered
because it was so cold, but because they couldn't verify
who I was, they screamed and started throwing ice bottled us.
One hit one of his colleagues and marine who was
still with me. They patted him down like they were
the authorities, attempting to confiscate any weapons if they were
set to destroy a vehicle before we even got into it.
I will have a full video report shortly, but the
bigger picture here is more important. I'm angry not the agitators.
I find myself angry at the people who won't understand
we're dealing with what we're dealing with, and we'll do
nothing about it. When I got to the suburbs, I
felt like I was in a simulation. I believe the
American people need to wake up. The moment is a
warning about where we're headed. Fear pushes people to care
only about their money and their families. I get it.
But when fear turns inward, when self preservation and greed
replace moral outrage or moral courage, evil goes unchallenged, and
history shows that we ignore that today, it will come
for us tomorrow. Ironically and incredibly, I see the communists
do not fear death in the same way most good
people seem to. The only thing communist fear is exposure itself.
And what's good news is because it's our only option.
I'm dead serious about investigating the prosecutors themselves as they
don't hold these Minnesota and fraudsters and violent mobsters accountable
for what they're doing. Stay tuned for the videos. He's
described the sort of surveillance that was in Seattle during
the so called Summer of Love, and it has grown
in capability and scope. Of course it has because these
people are not sitting still. Surveillance, well, we don't want
any of that. We can't have any of that, but
we do have that. We have it coming out of Congress.
We have it coming in the form of bills for us.
We have it in the form of people who are
mobbed up working with the government on their tech coming
out and saying things like this, this is a CEO
of a company called Flock, and yes it's the ACLU
that's putting this out. But the ACOU can be right sometimes,
just like a broken clock, Flock CEO goes ballistic on critics.
Is more Americans question mass drivers surveillance CEO attacks motives
of people who care about privacy, says they're trying to
normalize lawlessness and let murderers go free. Yep, because murderers
might go free. I want my every movement tracked. That
makes sense because Minnesota has been purposely turned into an
absolute center of the color Revolution. I want, I want
my vehicle struck. Why do they choose Minneapolis because it's
a small population base, because it's relatively easy to import
a voter base that now controls a voting block. That's
how you end up with Keith Ellison, the so called
Age of Minnesota, admitting that his entire political career at
this point is due to the fact that Muslims came
in and voted for him. In the live chat on Rumble,
Rareber asks, heaa up, maybe it is jiu Jitsu Easel.
Got my flock program open right now? Okay, So if
you're on the flock program Jiu Jitsu Easel, and I
know who you are, maybe you could talk about this
from a law importance, in an enforcement perspective. You can
join us in the Rumble chat when you are as
subscriber to our subset. Go to the Toddhermiciow dot substack
dot com. See when we saw this in Seattle, they
were using it to identify cops Antifa was and they
were building a database. Now apparently they've got it. So
the Flock CEO wants us US concertors to look at
his company as a savior company. That's why he's going
to the law and order perspective. On the other end
of this is Jack Dorsey. Jack Dorsey is a leftist
and he is a herd mentality globalist, and Jack Dorsey's
a genius. He's come up with an app that doesn't
need Wi Fi, it doesn't need cell service in situations
like Minnesota. It actually bounces signals phone to phone through
quick tiny little Bluetooth connections that the governments will have
very very very difficult time discovering. I might start using that.
It might be time for us to start using completely
locked out phones, locked out from any surveillance because Flock
CEO is playing the political game, and it's going to
work because there are Republicans who are joining into the
mass surveillance plan and understand this. Minnesota helps you know.
I have friends of mine who've gone from businesses of
all sorts. So my friend Steve Anderson is the managing
partner at Renew Healthcare. He's gone from businesses of all sorts.
He is a quant mathematician, made a fair bit of
money on Wall Street, a really large amount, and he's
done some things that are meaningful to him. He is
big into affordable housing and good decent housing for people
and helping them get out of cycles of poverty. And
he makes money at that. God bless him. He's got
some wineries, he's got some tech businesses, but his heart
is at Renew Renew Healthcare in Mexico because he benefited
from this. Steve was told he was done, he was
going to be debilitated and probably die, and then he
was able to go to the Mid East Middle East
and get stem cell treatment, and he began to investigate, well,
come we I can't do this in the United States
because the right form of stem cell treatment that doesn't
come in the form of frozen stem cells from whomever
and whatever health conditions can only be done outside this country.
So right now, as I'm speaking, there's a guy that
I've been down to Renew with, Chris. He's down there
right now. He and his wife are down there. They're
getting treatment for a second time. I've had it three times.
As you age, your joints get bad, ten thens get bad.
And this is a way to forestall surgery and to
avoid altogether or in my case, go from a deadlift
weight that used to make my back click at one
to two reps. I did sixty reps at that the
other day. No pain, no clicking, and that was from
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n ue dot Healthcare. Here's an example of one of
the videos I found. This is a woman who said
that she fell for the boss. Babe, I lie. And
when she talks about this, then I got to thinking
about the political because there's a huge political time to this,
and I found a really scholarly article written about this
that I think is very very interesting. So listen and
watch this, lady. Man.
Speaker 6: I feel live to live to buy.
Speaker 8: The culture, but I'm going to take full responsibility there.
Speaker 7: Man, I fell for it.
Speaker 8: I fell for the boss the like I could do
everything by myself.
Speaker 7: The hyper independent, and.
Speaker 1: I'm thirty one now and I still don't have kids.
Speaker 7: I still don't have a family.
Speaker 1: So Chicus on the live stream. It's at rumble dot com.
If you're a substack subscriber, you get access to that.
That's the Todd Hermer Show dot subtact dot com. Chicus's
heartbreak in the live chat yep, buying it, falling for it.
So God had this plan, you had the plan for
human beings. Is not good that man is alone, and
you can extend that into it's not good that woman
is a lot. So late stage feminism is bumping up
against something that's been put into the hearts of most
of us. There are some people who are blessed to
be single, and for them it is to be a blessing.
I know that sounds weird if you want to have
a husband or a wife and you say, what do
you mean blessed to be single? There's some people that
if you listen into and lean into why God is
having you be single, there's a blessing there. There are
people who find that to be a blessing because God
always acts on our best behalf. God's plan is a
family unit. For most people, a family unit where you
get to act as close to God as possible, starting
with the act of conceiving a child. God created all
of us in his image, in his image. He created
us male and female. He created us in his image.
The fact that man and woman can work together to
allow God to create life through them, I don't know
that it gets more miraculous than that. And we go
through all the stages, all the steps of why this
is so miraculous. My favorite example of this is do
you know when the woman's body kicks into labor. Do
you know how that happens? The baby tells the mom
it's time to come out a substance. Substance leaves the
baby's brain, travels through the umbilical cord into the mother's brain.
It's time to come out. That's unbelievably beautiful. It's time
to be born. Let there'd be lights when the sperm
and the egg join. Another great example. So it wasn't
hard to go find more examples of this. And what
I'd like to know is what was the metal lie? Yeah,
you can have it all, you can be the boss lady.
What was the metal ie? No, I don't want to
get hooked up with the dude, I've got my career
and that first video we play to that girl now
going back and saying this young girl really a kid,
going back and saying, I regret it. I want to
take it all back. I'm done. I don't want this anymore.
What is the meta lie? The narrative lie, the narrative lies.
I don't need no stinking man. Now. I think it's
because of sex drive that is less likely for men
to say I don't need no stinking women. Maybe that's
God's plan. I mean, it's certainly happening, and God's allowing
it to happen. But now you have. And I was
talking to my wife about this because you get into
some of the causes for this in a second and
why it's happening. And my wife says, look, you can't
do this show if you don't talk about hook up culture.
She's right, what are the big lies? Is hookup culture?
Swipe right, swipe left, telling young women, hey, you know what,
you don't need commitment, you know, just go get some
strange you know FWB. Isn't that what they call it?
Friends with benefits? Go get that. That'll fulfill you. Crazy
thing is how God has built into designs of our
bodies and our psyches and our hormones. Things like this
that when a woman joins in sexual union with a man,
something called oxytocin is released, which is a bonding hormone.
When you look into the eyes of your partner during
sexual union, it becomes imprinted upon you. They become the
meaning of sexual pleasure. All of the things excluded, they
become that. In a porn culture, you have men doing
that and sometimes women. In a hookup culture, more and
more women are taught, look, just make it temporary. Just
go get the benefits. You don't need to have the
chain around your neck. You don't need some man telling
you what to do. This is one more video. Then
we're going to get into the causes of some of
this and some of the political aspects of thish.
Speaker 8: You guys know the feeling, but you know when you're
thirty years old and your single and you'really trying to
put yourself out there and your friends are all married
and they're like, oh, let's go to the Dbacks game,
and you're like sick, and then you think like it's
going to be a night out, and then they're like
seventh inning in and They're like, yeah, that's my ice
cream as it is, And I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, oh, we.
Speaker 8: Have really different vibes of like what then I is
going to look like?
Speaker 1: Right, she's still in the party stage, her friends are
in the grown up raising a family stage. Yeah, you
have really different views of this. Which one is going
to bring you lasting happiness? Which one is going to
bring you eternal connection? If all, narral Harari came out
and said something about God's word, which puts him in
direct opposition to God, Which is why I can say
he's not relevant enough, he's not big enough, he's not
smart enough. He's talking about AI and the Bible.
Speaker 3: Do you know, as far as putting words in order
is concerned, AI already thinks better than many of us. Therefore,
anything made of words will be.
Speaker 9: Taken over by AI.
Speaker 10: If flows are made of words, then AI will take
over the legal system. If books are just combinations of words,
then AI will take over books. If religion is built
from words, then AI will take over religion.
Speaker 3: This is particularly true or religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity,
or Judaism. Judaism called itself the religion of the book,
and it grants ultimate authority not to humans, but to
words in books. Humans have authority in Judaism not because
of our experiences, but only because we learn words in books.
No human can read and remember all the words in all.
Speaker 9: The Jewish books, but Ai can easily do that. What
happens to a religion of the book when the greatest
expert on the Holy Book is an ai?
Speaker 1: Ais are expert in nothing, as are fancy algorithms. Yep,
some of them are not controllable. Some of them have
gone off the original servers and embedded themselves in the
dark web. In other words, they can't be shut down.
They can't be found because they pieced themselves out. That's
a mistake of human hubris and pride. We don't know
what those things are going to become. We will not
control these things. That's true. But none of it surprises God.
See he didn't mention the Christian faith there, because in
the Christian faith we don't have a book. We have
the Word. In the beginning, the word was with God,
the word was God. The word is Jesus. Our Bible,
the Old Testament that comes from some of the Jewish
religious texts, a bulk of them, The New Testament, is
simply a Rabbi Jesus teaching what it is to be
the Messiah of God, the Son of God, how he acts,
how he interacted with others in his three year ministry,
and what he expects of us now in the era
of the Church, where salvation is available to those of
us who accept the Lord Jesus. Mentally, he is the
son of God. Verbally, we confess him with our mouths,
and then we confess, repent of our sins, confess that
we have them, ask Him to save us except from
His Lord and Savior, and abide. We're abiding with the word.
We're walking with the word. The Bible is not simply
a book of words arranged in a certain order of
which AI can become an expert, because AI can't know Jesus.
AI can repeat words about Jesus, AI can reorder words,
AI can fake and tell diligence, and maybe one day
it will become satiate and self aware. If that's the case,
there's going to be huge problems, and nearly every science
fiction writer has experimented with that, huge problems for everybody.
But God, See, we can't shut down these Ais who
self distributed across the dark web, but God can. The
Bible's structural perfection. The Bible is, in fact the word
of God's men inspired to write it. It's perfect, and
it is brilliant, and it has structural perfection, which to
me just underlines the fact that it's created through God's inspiration. Example,
you know, King Saul was so king. Saul was a
guy that God selected to be a king because the
people wanted a king. So the Jewish people said, we
need to have a king because all the other countries
have kings. And God used a prophet named Samuel, who
had been proven to be never wrong. And Samuel said
he said to Samuel warned the people about what will
happen if they have a human king. He will come
and he'll take your vineyards for himself. He'll take your
daughters for his concubines. He'll take his sons, your sons
for his armies. He'll take your lands and make him
his lands. He'll take taxes from you, and he's going
to rule over you. Or you could have me God
is your king, in which case you pay me tithing voluntarily.
If you don't, I'm tracking that, and I ask you
to trust men these things to test me on tithing,
but I'm not going to make you do it. We'll
find out what happens when you die if you don't,
but I'm not going to make you do it. I'm
not going to take the lands they gave you. Oh,
I'm going to sometimes let other people take them. I'm
a little wars come and go, but I'm not going
to be coming and taking your daughters and putting them
into my concubines because I'm God and I don't have concubines.
What happens that this is what the Jewish people wanted.
They wanted a king. Samuel warned them they got a king.
And God's very clear about how he chose Saul. He
was tall, full stop. Saul was a tall cat. He
was particularly smart dude. His dad sent him out to
look for some donkeys that got lost, and Saul walked
three days away. If you've ever been around donkeys, they're
kind of lazy. They don't walk three days away. They
know where the food and water sources are. But in
walking three days away, he encountered Samuel because this is
God's plan. And God told him, Hey, guess what fancy
thing for you? You get to be king of Israel. So
Saul became king. And when Saul became king, when he
knew this the first time, the people came to him
because there was a battle to be fought. You know
what Saul was doing, He was out tending the oxen
and tending the cattle. He was, in other words, a
humble servant, still out doing that. That went away, and
Saul became a person filled with himself, and eventually Saul
decided that he had better plans than God. God gave
him direct orders and what to do in a battle,
Saw thought. Saul thought, now I'll do my own thing. Saul,
in fact, tried to take Samuel's place. Saul tried to
run religious practices, and that was Saul's job as the prophet,
probably Samon's job, not Saul's job. That was what Samuels
to do. But Saul decided to take this over. At
one point, Saul was right up next to ending his
son's life because his son put his staff in honey
and licked it. Because Saul made a stupid decision, Hey,
we're not gonna let any of the people eat, any
of the soldiers eat until we completely wipe these people out.
He gave a ridiculous order. The people have to step
in and say no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, Saul,
You're not gonna utterlive your kid. He didn't even know
you made this stupid decision to not let us eat.
So Saul became filled with himself and started to rebel
against God. But instead of getting to his knees and saying, oh,
dear Lord, I've gone wrong. I've tried to take Samuel's place.
I've ignored your orders. Please forgive me, please put me
on the right path, he went to Samuel and said, hey,
come and bless me. Come and bless the things I do.
Come and put some Samuel sauce on it, some special
God sauce on it, and all be okay. And Samuel said, no,
I can't do that. Incidentally, the kingchip's been taken from you.
It's no longer yours. And God allowed an evil spirit
to inhabit Saul. So when this happened, of course Saul's
behavior started to change. And now we get to the
structural perfection of the Bible. So there came along a
guy named David. This was a king God chose not
because of how he looked, because who he was the
day that David was to become king, Samuel had looked
at all his brothers. Samuel liked the way they looked, thought, oh,
this guy's tall, this guy's got big biceps, great big chest,
looks like a warrior. Got to know none of these,
And so David came. But David had been out tending sheep,
you know, like Saul at one point had been humble.
But David was a shepherd. And you know how often
the Bibles filled with shepherd reimagery. So it was because
David came along at that last minute, and God said, look,
I know this doesn't look like a king to you,
but regard no one in the flesh, for I'm looking
at the inside. David became part of Saul's inner circle.
This happened because Saul, being tortured by the demon, wanted
someone to play music for him. Some of his advisors
and suggested, Hey, there's this guy, David. He plays a harp.
So David came along and did that. David was also
told by his father to go deliver cheese to Saul
during a battle against Goliath, this huge giant that no
one was willing to go out in battle, and to
take his brothers some lesser foods than the cheese. The
cheese is for the king. And David arrived and saw
that no one would challenge this giant. So David, a
smaller dude, had just a slingshot in some rocks. He
went out to battle Goliath because he thought he was
tougher than Goliath. Wait stop, edit that. David went out
because this guy was trying to disrespect the living God.
He was mocking the living God. And David said, of
who is this uncircumcised philistine, this giant to mock the
living God. He went into battle not because he thought
he could win, because he knew God was completely his side.
David became a man after God's own heart, proving that
God had looked at the insides of David, not the
way he appeared physically. And yes, of course, as you know,
David defeated the giant, and the people rose up and
they loved David, women saying a song, Saul has killed
his hundreds or thousands, David his tens of thousands, and
Saul began to fear David because he was more popular.
Here's the perfection. Saul conducted and concocted a plan to
send David into battle to be killed. And this is
in First Samuel eighteen through nineteen. He started, He started
to send David into all these battles, but David kept performing.
He even told them to go out and gather four
skins of the Philistines to be able to marry one
of his daughters. And David ultimately did marry her, but
to gather four skins and to bring them back to Saul.
That's dangerous, right, because he was hoping that David would
be unalived in battle. That didn't happen. David lived fast forward.
David had become king of Israel and man after God's
own the heart. And then David fell to one of
the things. It's all too common that the devil uses.
David was on his rooftop. He saw a woman sunbathing,
and his flesh said, I want that. I want that. Yes,
I'm using that on purpose because it's dehumanizing, because David
had dehumanized her. I don't want to know her. Secondly,
I'm married. She's married. He sent for her and they
had sex. She got pregnant, and David concocted a plan
to send her husband into battle. And this comes from
eleven for Samuel eleven, verses fourteen through seventeen. In the morning,
David wrote a letter to Jail and sent it with
your Riet in it. He wrote, put Uryah out in
front where the fighting his fiercest, then withdraw from him,
so he was struck down and die. So a Job
had the city under siege. He put Uryah out a
place where he knew the strongest defenders were. When the
men of the city came out and fought against Job,
some of the men in David's army fell. Moreover, Uriah,
the Hittites did die. David did to Uriyah what Saul
tried to do to him. Now, one of David's advisors
came to him and he told him a story after this,
because he was outrage able what happened. And he told
him the story about a man, a poor man who
had but one sheep, or probably one lamb, just said
one lamb. And some important people came to the town,
and a rich man had many, many, many sheep, many lambs.
But he went to the poor man and said, no,
you sacrifice your lamb for the table. And this guy
loved the lamb. It was more of a pet than
it was a food source. But he was forced to
do that because of his station in life. And David
heard that tale and heard what happened that. He said, well,
that man, that rich man, must surely die. And his
advisers said, no, no, no, you're the rich man. You have
many wives. Look at what you did to Yourriah. You
took his wife, and you took his life. David went
into a process of mourning, and it was a very
very public mark. He in fact wrote psalms about this,
and he paid a huge cost. He and Bathsheba did
have a baby. She conceived and the baby died, and
David punished himself. He would not eat, he would not
take nourishments. He sat and he prayed in lamentations, and
God exacted accountability. David had chosen a sin. He could
not choose his accountability. David's family was forever fractured. Now
he never wiped out David from the earth. He had
made a promise I coveted with David. He would never
do that. But David's family became destroyed. His son fought
against him. He had his son seeking his death the
way Saul had sought his death. That wasn't a king
coming after him. It was his own son. Saul had
viewed David partly as a son. Saul had pledged on
the Living God that David would not be put to
death First Kings nineteen, verses one through six. More on
the absolutely beautiful full circle moments in the Bible. So
he made this pledge. Now, remember he was inhabited by
a demon. Sometimes he was himself, sometimes he was not.
Sometimes he was gentle. Sometimes he was going out throwing
spears at his own son's head. Jonathan's his son's name.
But he made this promise. Saul told his son Jonathan
and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had
taken a great liking to David and warned him, my father,
Saul was looking for a chance to kill you, being
your guard. Tomorrow morning, go into hiding and stay there.
I will go out and stand with my father in
the field where you are. I'll speak to him about
you and tell you what I find out. Jonathan spoke
well of David to Saul, his father, and said to him,
let not the king do wrong to his servant David,
for he's not wronged you, and what he has done
has greatly benefited you. He took his life in his
hands when he killed the Philistine. The Lord won a
great victory for all Israel, and you saw it and
were glad. Why then, would you do wrong to an
innocent man like David by killing him for no reason?
Saul listened to Jonathan and took his oath. As surely
as the Lord lives, David will not be put to death. Fascinating.
He made a promise. Did he keep it? Well, he didn't,
but God did. And God loves full circle moments. Remember
the Bible begins in a garden, the Bible ends in
a garden, full circle moment. A little bit later in
that same chapter, Saul, who was not predue, given the
gift of prophecy. Sometimes he had been temporarily. Oh, he
was given the gift of prophecy. And he was stripped
naked and laid down on the ground, rolling around with
the prophets in this very very unkingly pose. And I
read this this way. God said, remember that thing you said,
David will not be put to death. You were prophesying,
and he thought you were being deceptive. Guess what, you're
a prophet. He's not going to be put to death.
Because I won't allow it. The Bible is the living
word of God. It was given to men to write
through Godly inspiration, and it is structurally perfect, including full
circle moment after full circle moment. If you ever read
the Bible, step back and look at how many times
God tells you what's coming but you cannot see it
until you get three chapters in, and to realize, Oh,
he knows all things. Because God in fact knows all things.
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