Episode 256 - Positivity Successor (1 SAMUEL 6-7, 7-8)

0:00hey positive people welcome the positivity successor schedule some Monday through Sunday including holidays every season every year clean leap year next to tonight changing podcast God bless amen have a positive day welcome the positivity success of episode 256 to continue on with the Bible let's get into it the arc return to Israel 6 when the arc of the Lord had been in Philistine territory seven months the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said what shall we do with the arc of the Lord tell us how we should send it back to its place they answered if you return the arc of the God a visual do not send it away empty but by all means send a guilt offering to

1:02him then you will be a healed and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you the Philistines asked what guilt offering should we send them they replied five gold tumors and five gold rats according to the number of Philistine rulers because the same plague has struck the both you and your rulers make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country and pay honor to Israel's God perhaps we will lift his hand from you and your gods in your land why do you heart in your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh do did when he treated them harshly did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way now then get a new cart ready but two cows that

2:09have cab and have never been yoked hitch the cows to the cart but take their cabs away and pen them up take the arc of the Lord and put it on the cart and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you're sending back to him as a guilt offering send it on its way but keep watching it if it goes up to its own territory toward Beth Shamesh then the Lord has brought the great this great disaster on us but if it does not then we will know what that it was not his hand that struck us and that it happened to us by chance so they did this they took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their cabs they

3:10placed the arc of the Lord on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats in the model of the tumors then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shamesh keeping on the road and lowing all the way they did not turn to the right or to the left the rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shamesh now the people of Beth Shamesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley and when they looked up and saw the arc they rejoiced at the site the cart came to the field of Joshua a Beth Shamesh and there it stopped beside a large rock the people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows has a burnt offering to the Lord the Levites took down the arc of the

4:13Lord together with the chest containing the gold objects and placed them on the large rock on that day the people of Beth Shamesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord the five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekera these are the gold tumors the Philistines sent has a built offering to the Lord one for each foyer ashtad gaza ash kalan gath and Ekera and the number of gold of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers the fortified towns with their country villages the large rock on which they set the arc of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua a Beth Shamesh but

5:16God struck down some of the men of Beth Shamesh putting 70 of them to death because they had looked into the arc of the Lord the people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them and the men of Beth Shamesh asked who can stand in the presence of the Lord this holy God to whom will go who will whom will the arc go up from here then they sent messengers to the people of Karayat Jura saying the Philistines have returned the arc of the Lord come down and take it up to your place seven so the men of Karayat Jura came and took up the arc of the Lord they took it to Abbanadab's house on the hill and consecrated Elazar his son to guard the arc of the Lord Samuel was subdued to

6:21Philistines at Misbah it was a long time 20 years and all that the arc remained in Karayat at Karayat Jura and all the people of Israel mourned and sought after the Lord and Samuel said to the whole house of Israel if you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the ashto-rets and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines so the Israelites put away their bows and ashto-rets and served the God the Lord only then Samuel said assemble all Israel at Misbah and I will can intercede with the Lord for you when they had assembled at Misbah they drew water and poured it out before the

7:22Lord on that day they fasted and there they confessed we have sinned against the Lord and Samuel was leader of Israel at Misbah when the Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Misbah the rulers of the Philistines came up to attack them and when the Israelites heard of it they were afraid because of the Philistines they said to Samuel do not stop crying out to the Lord our God for us that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines then Samuel took a succulent lamb and offered it up as a burnt up a whole burnt offering to the Lord he cried out to the Lord on Israel's behalf and the Lord answered him while Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering the Philistines drew near the and to engage Israel and battle but that day the Lord thundered with loud

8:28thunder against the Philistines and through them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites the men of Israel rushed out of Misbah and pursued the Philistines slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth car then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Misbah and Shen he named it Abonizer saying thus far has the Lord helped us so the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israelite territory again throughout Samuel's lifetime the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines the towns from Akron to Gath that the Philistines had captured from Israel were restored to her and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the power of the Philistines and

9:29there was peace between Israel and the Emirates Samuel continued as judge over Israel all the days of his life from year to year his he went on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgath to Misbah judging Israel in all those places but he always went back to Rema where his home was and there also he judged Israel and he built an altar there to the Lord that's where we're gonna stop we'll put it back up with Israel as forking eight did you know how did the Israelites defeat the Philistines 714 there's the lights the Israel lights where we're worshiping false gods Samuel told them to worship only the true God when the

10:31Israelites worshiped only God he gave them victory at Misbah as long as Samuel lived and as long as Israel worshiped God the people were safe from the Philistines thanks for turning to an interesting bow right mark to look back at the reflection of yourselves in the mirror tell the beautiful enhancing people out there because you're working progress and we'll get to where you want to like believe that thanks to tune to in our episode of Pository Successor thanks for tuning to the interesting bowie God bless amen tune tomorrow for the next episode of Pository Successor God bless amen have a positive day