Uriah the Hittite Pt.2
II SAMUEL 7:12
12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
Uriah the Hittite Pt.2
II SAMUEL 7:12-17
12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
(This is Nathan the prophet prophesying the word of the Lord to David concerning his future son Solomon. This prophecy was pronounced by God before the adultery event between David and Bathsheba took place 4 chapters later – so God could not then change his mind about His word because of David’s sin with Bathsheba 4 chapters later. When God speaks, He has to make a way for His word to come to pass, and nothing will stop it, not even man’s sin)
13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. (If David and Bathsheba had been put to death for their adulterous act according to the law of God in Leviticus 20:10, then this prophecy of Solomon being born and his seed continuing would have failed, but we know that it is impossible for bible prophecy to fail, so then when we get to 2nd Samuel 11 of David’ sin with Bathsheba, God had to make a way for David by his mercy, but yet still meet the demand of His own law, and so the life of the son of David (a type of Christ) was taken in the place of the life of David and Bathsheba, but then Solomon in type was the resurrection of that same son again – this is showing Christ’s death and resurrection as the son of David. And so there has also been a prophecy spoken over us in this hour by a prophet, and nothing will stop that either)
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son (He is speaking of Solomon, who we know is a type of Christ in the millennium). If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: (in other words, if he makes mistakes along the way, he will reap the consequences in this life just like any other person, but it will not stop God’s mercy concerning Him. We are also on the same basis in that we will pay for our mistakes in this life like David paid for his sin with Bathsheba, but there is nothing that can change the prophecy of God concerning our eternal position in the eternal kingdom of what has already be spoken over us concerning the end time bride of Christ)
15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
That was chapter 7, but then when we get to chapter 11, it seems like the devil was going to mess up everything.
II SAMUEL 11:1-11
1 ¶ And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle (Joab had spent the rainy season of that winter at Jerusalem waiting for the spring of which the ground was better fit for marching soldiers, and for the beasts of burden to be able to transport their provisions), that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel (This word "servant" in Oriental courts was used to designate those of high rank that were associated near the king's person); and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house (A resurrection of a king at evening time - notice how the bible specifically mentions that it was evening time, because at the evening time in this day the bible says in Zechariah 14:7 “it shall be light- at the evening time” - the resurrection of an end time revelation of truth – the rising of the SON. So God had these specific details place in the bible and in this story to show us a prophecy for this evening time age now, because we find here an event of a woman of which her first husband dies and then she becomes married to a second husband of what Paul writes about in Romans CH.7, and this is the scripture Brother Branham opens with in the message Invisible Union, and then what follows from David raising up at evening time is an invisible union, and that is what has also taken place at this evening time between Christ and His Bride. This is why we have to be able to see Christ is every verse of the bible, because He is): and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
**A washed woman at evening time, in a season of her being receptive to seed, and a man (a king) risen up at that same evening time – God knows how to time everything just right. All these events are coming together and showing us a mystery of this end time hour.
And then we find that David sends an invitation to Bathsheba through his messengers, and then the two coming together in an invisible union of where seed is passed and received.
*All these details are purposely placed in the bible because there is a hidden revelation that God has hidden beneath these stories – who would ever think that God would be able to write such an accurate prophecy of this hour and hide it underneath the event of a man’s worst sin of adultery and murder.
This story is not about marriage and divorce as it would seem, just as Brother Branham tells us that Romans 7 isn’t about marriage and divorce either, but it is an end time prophecy.
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23 Now in Romans 7. Trusting that you have your Bibles open, everywhere now, across the country. We want to read closely now. This--this Message out of here, it seems like it's on marriage and divorce, but it really isn't. To me, it's a prophecy for the Church in the last day.
*So David and Bathsheba is not about marriage and divorce either, it’s about God writing a prophecy in David’s life for this last age of a washed and satisfied woman in this hour who has also received seed, and of whom her old husband nature is to be destroyed by the same one of whom she received seed by – who arranged for Uriah’s death? David did, and so who is to see to the death of your first husband’s nature in this hour, Christ will, as long as we have received His seed by an invisible union in this day, then it is up to Christ to deal with arranging the death of our first husband’s nature of unbelief. This is why we are not to try and work it out about the death of our old nature, if you have heard the invitation from the messenger of this hour, and you have responded with your consent to that invitation, and you have gone on to received seed by an invisible union with Christ in this day, then He will see to the arrangements of the death of your old husband nature – that is what we are being shown here, and this is why we may find ourselves at times being put in the heat of the battle – God has to have that old nature killed.
3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent messengers (David knew that she was already married to her first husband, but he still sent his messengers – and you were born into this world with a fallen nature that you were married to also, and God knew that, but He still sent you an end time prophet messenger inviting you to come into an invisible union with the king, and then to have your old husband nature put to death so that you could be married to a new nature that has the ability to believe every word of God for your age), and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
(The entire scene was set at a time of war and struggle of which our story is backgrounded in verse 1 – a time of trouble and war and death – it’s a reflection of this age.
Samuel 11 begins with the sin of adultery and ends with a marriage at the end of the chapter in verse 27 – and Genesis also begin with adultery and ends with a marriage in Revelation at the end of the bible – so this 11th chapter of second Samuel is showing us a hidden mystery of a story of redemption from Genesis to Revelation of Christ redeeming His Church of what began in adultery in Genesis, but ends in a marriage in the book of Revelation.)
6 ¶ And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet (wash thy feet is a euphemism for going to bed). And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
It has been suggested that there was a code of honor among Uriah’s fellow warriors in that while they were at war and in battle they chose to abstain themselves from marital relationships as a practice of discipline – it was like a tradition among them.
We must understand that there was no scripture in support of this being a commandment of God, so this was just a rule that had arisen from among man’s ideas like how the Catholics have put certain rules of celibacy onto their priests, and look at some of the troubles that that has caused in the world because it has the tendency to “bend” them out of shape. So these are things that as humans we form as traditions of man of which we will find that Uriah placed that tradition above the commandment of the king.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. (Notice Uriah’s direct disobedience to what the king had commanded him to do. Many people think that Uriah was being gallant by doing this, but I don’t think so. He was directly commanded by the king to do a certain thing, and yet he chose to disobey and put his own traditional ideas above the king’s word.
In Uriah’s thinking, he actually thought that he had a better idea to that of the commandment of the king, and this was his opportunity to display his self-discipline of what a good person he thought he was, and so there was an element of a pride-based motivation behind his thinking, and he didn’t realize that that very thing would be the cause his own death.
Human pride is responsible for many unnecessary deaths and disasters, God hates it and so should we.
*We see this also in Genesis with Cain. Cain was also told by God what to do, and it wasn’t a hard thing that God had asked, but Cain refused to obey because of his own self-righteous and religious thinking, and then the next thing that happens in the story is that someone is murdered – Abel is murdered. This is why that when we put our own works and pride-motivated ideas of pleasing God above obedience to the simple instruction of His word, then trouble and death follows that, because there is a way that seems right to a man, but it is the ways of death. Brother Branham says that Uriah will be on the other side, so we know that God is only showing us a picture here in this story)
10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
**He wanted to like prove to the king of how that he was such a worthy person – “I can do it better than what the king commands me to do” “I know that my way is better than God’s way”, and this is why to many it looks like that Uriah was a better man than David because what Uriah is doing seems right to human way of thinking, but not so, the bible tells us that it was David who had a heart like the heart of God and not Uriah.
*Look closely at what Uriah is actually saying, “I have purposed in my mind not to obey you because I am actually convinced that I have a better idea about this than what you have. I am convinced that my way is better, and so I have decided to disobey you and do it my way.”
*This is also the same Idea that Cain had, and so this is showing us of the fallen nature of mankind of which all the evils and sufferings of the world have been lived out as a result of man doing things his own way opposed to the will and word of God.
*All the wars, all the murders, all the pain, all the sorrow and death and destruction for the past 6000 years have all been a result of this problem right here of man’s fallen nature.
Uriah wanted to prove by the display of his own self-discipline and self-sacrifice that he was such a great and loyal subject among the kingdom of men – this is what our first husband nature looks like, and this is why so many are impressed by this, of what they think is a display of macho. Uriah wanted David to come into agreement with his ideas instead of Uriah coming into agreement and obedience to the commandment of the king.
**But the bible says that obedience is better than sacrifice.
In this message THE.PATRIARCH.ABRAHAM_ BAKF.CA V-22 N-7 FRIDAY_ 64-0207 Brother Branham is referring to Abraham of how he obeyed the voice of God of being willing to slay his only son Isaac against his better judgement
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou bast obeyed my voice. (Genesis 22:18)
2 What a promise, because of obedience! Obedience is what God wants. It was once said, "Obedience is better than sacrifice." To obey the Lord is better than any sacrifice that you could do.
* Uriah thought that by the display of the sacrifice of his own self-denial, that that was a greater thing than being obedient to the kings commandment, and to him, it was greater, just like people esteem their own will and way and their understanding of their denominational tradition above the vindicated thought and word of God – and so this is showing us a characteristic of our first husband nature of our human spirit that respects its own ideas as being greater than the word of God. What man calls great, God calls foolish.
*But God wants is for us to put His word first, and to believe and to obey His word – that’s what the new nature looks like, because life comes by obedience to the word, and the bible is showing us in type that if Uriah had obeyed the king’s word, then life would have come to him also.
II SAMUEL 11:12-17
12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
14 ¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
God will make sure that your old husband dies in battle – that is why he has to put some of us through tough battles – He has arranged our lives for the purpose of bringing your old husband nature to its death.
Remember that you will struggle with the “stickiness” of certain aspects of the remnant of that old nature all your life because of the fallen body that we are living in – “when I would do good, evil is present” said Paul.
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213 That's the reason you have to be born again. You have to separate; you have to die to that first husband. You can't live with it. You just can't say, "Well, I'll divorce him, and hang him up here till occasion." No, sir. No writing of divorcement! He dies. The nature of the world has to die. Every speck of him has to die. You have to be reunited, again, with another Nature.
A nature of faith and obedience.