Chapter 6 And 7

April 21,2016

The title of Chapter 6 is, " The Ark Brought To Jerusalem." Now that David had united all the tribes of Israel into a single country, he now wanted to unite the country behind God. The Ark had been built by the Jews at the instruction from God as a place where God would come to meet with His people.However the Jews had fallen away from God and had lost the Ark to the enemy ! So, David gathered all the men and people who were with him that totaled about 30,000, to bring back the Ark from the house of Abinadab. They had put the Ark on a cart pulled by an ox and were pulling it. At one point the Ark looked as if it were going to fall and Uzzah reached out to keep it from falling and kept it steady.  God was angry and killed him instantly. David was scared that day and left the Ark at the house of Obed-Edom.

The spiritual lesson here is God's house is a holy place. Weather it is the Ark or heaven !  God makes the rules and failure to obey God's word leads to death. This message is the same for us today !!  If you want to get to heaven, you must do as God says. The same is true if someone comes to your house.... YOU get to decide who comes into your house.

God had blessed Obed-Edom and when David saw this he went back and got the Ark and took it to Jerusalem. As he was bringing it into the city, David's wife Michal, saw David with his shirt off in the street dancing and celebrating the return of the Ark to Jerusalem and the return of God to the Jews !! She chastised David for this display and David put her right in her place. God showed all that David was right because from that moment on Michal never had any children !!!

Chapter 7  starts out that David wants to build a house for the Ark and ends by God blessing David !! David wanted to do the right thing for God and had planned on doing it. However God  steps in through the profit Nathan and reminds David of all that God had done for the Jews and never had a house and never asked for one ! David then prays and gives thanks and prays to God. God answers by making a promise to David that will last forever and still is being work out by God. God makes many promises but one of them was to always have a seed of David on the throne.....Jesus is on the throne in heaven at God's right hand !!!  Also he promises David that David's son will be the most famous and blessed king the world will ever know...the sons name was Solomon !!!  The chapter ends with David in prayer saying to God let it be as you have said !!!  This story has many similarities to the story in the New Testament of when Mary was told of her coming son and the promise of his life !!!