Hi John,
We really enjoyed hearing Chapter 6 tonight with the changes. It just gets better and better. We really appreciate Josiah sending us the link to Justin TV so we could see it. If you all read again and broadcast it, please text us.
I have a question about 2 Samuel 19:21-22 under the section Example #7 Satan and the Sons of Zeruiah. In verse 22 you wrote ..”that you should act like Satan on my behalf today”.
The conversation was in heaven between God and Satan about Job, the trial Zechariah saw about Josiah the high priest was in heaven, and Satan was working with God in heaven to provoke David to number Isreal without any of them knowing God and Satan were having those talks. So, how could David on earth know to use Satan as the example of adversaries in your translation of verse 22.
With what we know today, I think Satan was an excellant choice, but how would David have known to use Satan as a comparison for the sons of Zeruiah, the way you translated that verse?
Randell
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Good question, Brother Randell. Men knew the story of Job, by David’s time. But what we have in the Bible is just a tiny portion of what David and others knew, both from other lost stories and from prophets, besides their own contact with God. David had plenty to go on. He could have said that to Abishai just that way.
jdc