Scripture for the Day Nov 29th 2020: How Treason Finds You

After a day of reflection, I’d like to circle back to our recent Devotional “Dealing with Traitors the Biblical Way”. You recall that Adonijah, David's son and Solomon's brother, tried to usurp Solomon's kingship, However, Solomon showed mercy and let his brother live despite his treason. But Adonijah continued his attempt to overthrow Solomon, and the young King finally executed his traitor brother. 1 Kings 1:1 through 1 Kings 2:25.

Some of you may know that Absolom, David's third son, also attempted to overthrow a king, his own father. Absolom later died in battle. But why all this trouble? Was David not a man after God's heart?

1 Samuel 13:14 KJV
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

Yes, David was. But you may also recall David's sin, sleeping with Uriah's beautiful wife Bathsheba, who then became pregnant. Uriah was an officer in the royal army. In order to hide his crime, David tried to get Uriah to sleep with his wife by getting him drunk and peer-pressuring him to go home. The warrior, however, had none of it. Being loyal to his troops, he honorably stayed with them instead of going to his wife. King David could no longer hide his adultery because of Bathsheba’s pregnancy. Adulterous deeds were punishable by death under Jewish law. King David had Uriah killed by sending him to the frontline in battle and withdrawing the troops. After the murder, he married Bathsheba.

Rough stuff, and it got rough for the king, too, thereafter.

No one knew but God and the prophet Nathan, who confronted the king. David repented in honesty and with all his heart and threw himself at God's mercy. But he had to pay a price:

2 Samuel 7-14 (MEV)
7 Then Nathan told David, “You are this man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you as king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
8 I gave to you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms, and I gave to you the house of Israel and Judah. If this were too little, I would have continued to do for you much more.
9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and you took his wife as a wife for yourself. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
10 Now the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
11 “Thus says the Lord: See, I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house. I will take your wives before your eyes and will give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
12 Although you did it secretly, I will do this thing before all of Israel, and under the sun.”
13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan said to David, “Now the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”

Let's look at this again:

David lost his firstborn baby son because of his sins.
Later, he also lost Amnon, his oldest son. Because Amnon had raped his own sister Tamar, David's third son, Absolom, murdered him. Absolom later died trying to overthrow King David. Before Absalom's demise, he slept with all of King David's concubines, publically humiliating the king.

What did God say in response to King David's sin of sleeping with Bathsheba and murdering her husband? "

10 Now the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
11 “Thus says the Lord: See, I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house. I will take your wives before your eyes and will give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
12 Although you did it secretly, I will do this thing before all of Israel, and under the sun.”

The treason we are experiencing now directly results from OUR sin of accepting evil in our midst and letting liberal, ungodly madness rule our lives. We could have saved millions of children from the knives of the liberals. We could have saved the souls and minds of those who survived that assault by defending prayer and bibles in the classroom. We could have prevented treasonous snakes multiplying in our midst by standing up to the enemies demanding our adherence to political correctness.

We could have, we should have, and we must do so now, in the name of Jesus.

As President Trump so aptly recited so many times during his first campaign for POTUS: "You knew I was a snake before you let me in." We are now getting bitten and dealt a death-b l o w. But our rescue still is in Jesus—if we commit to Him.

Let's remember then the remedy that God, in His mercy, has given us: 

2 Chronicles 7:14 NLT
14 Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.

Called by Whose name? Christ's. The LORD calls on us, the Christians. Will you take the time to repent and pray alone and with all your heart to reclaim this nation, to rip the usurped power from the grip of the treasonous Bidens, their minions, and their puppet masters? Will you stand up for righteousness as a true Christian, for God, this country, for your loved ones, and for your own sake?

If so, be and stay blessed! 

Remember,

Proverbs 17:15 NASB1995
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.

In Jesus' name,
AMEN

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