Summary
➡ In this story, David, a shepherd, is sent by his father to bring food to his brothers who are in Saul’s army, facing the Philistines. The Philistines’ champion, Goliath, challenges the Israelites to send out a warrior to fight him. Despite his brothers’ mockery and the fear of the Israelites, David volunteers to fight Goliath, showing his faith in God and his courage. The story emphasizes the power of faith and the importance of standing up to fears and challenges.
➡ David, a young and inexperienced man, faced a giant named Goliath with only a slingshot and five smooth stones. Despite being mocked and underestimated, David’s faith and courage led him to defeat Goliath with a single well-placed stone. This story serves as a reminder that with faith and the right mindset, we can overcome our own ‘giants’ or challenges in life. The author encourages us to face our problems with the same faith and determination as David, assuring us that we can overcome them.
➡ This text talks about the need for courage and change in a world where mistakes are repeatedly made. It suggests that the current powers are blind and weak, and calls for the rise of a hidden force to help overcome a ruling beast. It ends with a reflection on the fear and uncertainty that accompanies both birth and death in this world.
Transcript
And of course, Jacob, Danielle, and Ethan, we walk into this one tent, and. And one of the artists is like, Jacob. And he knew who I was, and I was just. I was so. I was so excited, you know, because it’s always wonderful to see the Israelites. And he is an artist known as Manuel Guzman, which I said. I said, now I gotta buy something from you, right? He was a really talented digital artist. He made this, actually, for his dad. This is a picture of David. And Ethan really loved this one. It’s going up in his room after the show.
But there you see the picture of David holding victoriously, you know, Goliath’s head after he chopped it off and he saved the Israelites from the Philistines army. They were in a. They were in, like, a little bit of a stalemate, because the armies of God, that’s in scripture were scared of the philistine army, especially because of this one gigantic man named Goliath, whose name literally means splendor or, like, pomp. It’s like a picture of, like, I’m the best, right? I don’t need God. I got my weird gods that I believe in. He’s from gath, which means wine press.
The winepress is where the grapes, they’re really. That’s what. That’s. That’s not a fun place to be for a grape. And it’s not a fun place to be when God has you in the winepresse, a giant named Goliath, who has six fingers and six toes. It’s a symbol of the carnal man. But this story of David and Goliath, many people have heard, and it’s been told many different ways, but there is a hidden meaning, because, of course, words have meanings. So, you know, if you look at certain stories in scripture, like, I’ve many times explained to you, how Jesus, who called himself the way, the truth, and the life, the way to truly live your life, if you put it together, was put to death, literally, at a place called Golgotha.
Which in Hebrew means the skull. So here we see a literal story which can be interpreted for us as the way to truly live our life was put to death in our thinking, in our thoughts. The name Joseph, Mary and Jesus. Joseph means God is at it. Mary means man’s rebellion. Jesus means God is salvation from Nazareth. God has added to man’s rebellion salvation and separated them from the world. So there is more to this story. So let me give you a little bit of background about David. What happened in the land was, you know, Israel.
After they were set free from Egypt and everything else, they kind of started following after all the pagan gods. And they wanted. They wanted a king, just like the other countries had kings. They’re like, give us a king to rule over us. See, God wanted to rule. Rule them. God didn’t want his children to be under the thumb of one single ruler. He knew that the instant they put and crowned somebody as king, as opposed to having God be the ruler of their life, that they’d be taken advantage of, that they’d be sent off to war.
It’s actually, it literally says this. When Samuel came to, God said, look, they want a king. God’s like, I don’t want him to have a king. But they’re like, no, no, give us a king. God’s like, all right, but you know what’s going to happen? The king’s going to end up taking a 10th of their labor. You know, it’s going to make the women do meaningless tasks, and it’s going to send the men off to war. Kind of like how people, you know, end up fighting for their religious beliefs. It’s kind of foolish. He didn’t like the fact that there was a king, but he gave him Saul.
But Saul, he was a, you know, he’s kind of a proud man, and he kind of let his position go to him. His kingdom, by the way, was in the wilderness. It wasn’t even in an established place. It wasn’t really the promise of God. The promise of God didn’t come until there was a little shepherd boy who everybody thought was a nobody named David, who eventually was anointed to be king and had to go through a lot before he became king. And that didn’t even stop the apple of God’s eye from making some mistakes, because we all do make mistakes.
But what Saul did was he made a big mistake. He decided to sacrifice and go to war without God’s blessing. The prophet, he said, wait. Wait until I come. Let me do the stuff. But no, he took it into his own hands. And then God said, I’m going to rip the kingdom from Saul. Now you go find another king. So he sends Samuel the prophet. He sends them to the house of Jesse. Jesse had eight sons, eight being symbolic of new beginnings. And of course, David was the 8th. Samuel comes into the house, and he’s ready.
You know, he’s like, he wants to anoint the new king of Israel. And he looks at all the sons, and he says to Jesse, this all you got? Is this all you got, Jesse? And Jesse’s like, uh, what do you mean? These are all the good ones. And the brothers, they were all strong, and they were all even three of them were actually in the army already serving. But they were like, you don’t want the little runt who’s out there not wanting to be the king out there taking care of the sheep, out there fighting off bears and lions and tigers and witches and, oh, my.
That’s what David was. He was like a little guy. He didn’t look like the rest. He didn’t look like a king. He didn’t look like he was going to be God’s champion. But that’s who God ends up anointing. Samuel goes and finds David in the field. I think he was like 18 years of age. Anoints him with oil, has a horn of oil. And, of course, oil is symbolic of wisdom. And he pours this wisdom all over David’s head, drenches him in it. But it would be many, many, many years before David ends up becoming kingdom.
That’s. There’s a story in that, because all of you that are watching right now, you probably, you’re probably going through something. You’re probably facing your own Goliaths. You probably got the armies of the Philistines standing against you in the form of bills and this, that and the other thing. And you’re probably like, oh, no, what am I going to do? And you’re probably scared to face it, but then little old David’s going to come around. It’s going to save you. It’s a picture of Christ in you destroying this problem simply with a simple stone. And the stone is symbolic, of course.
The rock is Christ. It’s a simple picture of truth, which ends up killing this giant smack dab in the forehead. So how does this little shepherd boy end up becoming, you know, the great champion of Israel? Well, he was really known for playing the harp. He was really good at this. And we find out in the Book of Revelation, and if you look at scripture, you find out that the harp is symbolic of the praises of God. Joy. Right? David had joy in the little thing that he was given, but he was playing the harp, and he was so good at it that supposedly the rumors of David’s playing went all the way up to Saul that it could actually, you know, get rid of the evil spirits that are troubling a man.
After Saul took, you know, matters into his own hand and cut God out of the equation, followed after his own pride and his own lust, he ended up, God sent a tormenting spirit to him. This is what happens. You don’t think that God does these things. You don’t think that if you’re off track that God’s going to send you some stuff that’s going to mess you up, get you a little bummed out in your head, try to get you back on track, try to figure out, how do you get out of this. Saul was looking for a quick fix, so he heard about this kid who plays the harp, and he’s like, bring them on in.
And of course, David plays it. And. And, like, the evil spirit just departed from Saul. Because really, the joy of the Lord, when it comes around people that are having a hard time, believe me, I’ve seen it many times myself. The joy of the Lord will make an evil spirit depart. Jesus, when he came onto the scene, when people were possessed by demons, and we know that a demon is a lying spirit. A spirit is a thought, so it is a spirit that is a lie. And when the truth comes on in, the joy of the Lord comes on in.
It’s kind of hard for that demon to stick around. So the demon departed. The tormenting spirit departed from Saul, and David becomes the armor bearer. So that’s how he ends up in this story. But here’s the problem. In one Samuel 17, the armies of the Philistines were gathered along. Let me read this to you because. And each of these words have such a splendid meaning. Now, the Philistines armies gathered together their armies to battle, and they were gathered together at Succoth, which belongs to Judah, and pitched between Succoth and asgah in ephesam, which, by the way, philistines, the word philistine means immigrant.
Okay? So it’s not some. It’s. It’s. It’s a person who’s not supposed to be encroaching into that area to begin with. Philistines are the thoughts that come into our heads that really shouldn’t be there, that we end up starting to worry about, like, our fears and I may mispronounce all of these places but shokah, which actually means it’s the lowlands of Judah. The lowlands of Judah. So this is where the battle takes place in the low places, in the carnal places. And they were gathered together between these two places and Saul and his men of Israel, they gathered together and they pitched by the valley of Elah.
Elah here, ironically, we know a guy named Elon. Same word, oak tree. So they gathered, they pitched their tents in a place where they, you know, where the oak tree ruled. And ironically, Elah was a king for, like, he was a king for like two years. But he was an edomite king. And the Philistines stood on one side of the mountain and the Israelites stood on the other side of the mountain in this low land in between. Okay, so you have a picture of two different mountains. You have. Right? In scripture they talk about these two different mountains as well.
There’s, like, the mountain of your intellect, your carnal nature. And then there’s the mountain of God. So what side are you standing on? And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, which I already told you what it means. Splendor of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He was 9ft tall, nine inches. That’s 66 upside down. It’s a picture of the carnal man. He had six fingers and six toes. Man was made right? On what day? The 6th day. Six is the number of man. 666 is the number of a man.
So of course, the giant’s going to have six fingers, six toes. And he had upon his head a helmet of brass. You know what brass is? Fool’s goat. Fool’s gold. He wasn’t a divine champion. It was fool’s gold. It was worthless. His helmet was going to protect nothing. That’s basically what the scripture is saying. And he was armed with a coat of mail. The weight of the mail was 5000 shekels of brass. Once again, fool’s gold. He had graves of brass upon his leg. Once again, fool’s gold may look divine, may look strong and powerful, but it ain’t.
And the staff that Goliath was carrying, and the spear, you can see a picture of it right there. See? It was like a weaver’s beam. You know what a weaver’s beam is? Okay, if you’re weaving like a rug. The beam was very strong and it went across and it held the actual thing that was being weaved. Don’t you find it interesting that the enemy of God, right. Who’s the enemy of God? God is truth. It would be lies. And what are lies? They’re stories. They’re tales. The ancient and the honorable is the head in the scriptures.
And the tail is the false prophet. The tail, the stories. So his spear was literally made of something that weaved tails. Recently I was talking about the weaver. And he stood and he cried to the armies of Israel and said unto them, why are you come to set your battle in array? Am I not a philistine? Aren’t you the servants of Saul? Choose a man. Let him come and fight me. And everybody was like, not me. It ain’t going to be me. This guy’s huge. His reputation preceded him. Gath had a bunch of giants. Nobody wanted to mess with them.
The giants were what scared a lot of people from trying to cross over into the promised land to begin with. What do you think’s keeping you in your place? Being scared of the things that are there for you to overcome? There’s a lesson in that. When Saul and the Israelites heard that the Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Now, David, here we go, right? David. David was out there in the field, you know, and his dad said, look, you know, they’re having a problem. Down with the battle. Will you bring them some sandwiches? Basically, he’s like, go feed your brothers.
Go feed your older brothers. The ones that I said should be the king, the one that I was like, proudly showing Samuel. And they’re like, no, you don’t want the guy on the field. You don’t want the run in the field. So here. Here are the three brothers who are already in the army. Three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to battle. And the names of the three sons that were in battle were Elob, the firstborn. Elob. You know what that means? It means God is father. Okay, so before David comes and finishes the battle, you got God there.
You got God the father there. Next on to him was Abinadab. Abinadab means the father is willing. The father is gracious. And the third was Shama. Shama means astonishment. God the father is gracious and shall astonish you with what happens next. The youngest, the 8th child coming to battle. So Saul says, bring some corn. Bring some this, bring some whatever. Bring it to your brothers. And he comes to help them out. And they all. But, like, what are you doing here? What are you doing here? Get back. Or just our couple of sheep are gonna get lost.
You gotta remember, David was the one that cared for the sheep they didn’t have. They were in the army, being tough guys, following after Saul, who was possessed by a tormenting spirit because he didn’t listen to God. They were going the wrong way. Here comes David, little old David that everybody ignores. You ever feel like you’re ignored? You ever feel like no one cares about you? You ever feel like you’re trying to do the right thing and nobody cares? I feel that way at times. Well, let me tell you something God sees. That’s why God puts people into positions they need to be put in.
He places them there. It’s serendipity. Just like he placed me where he placed a me with the WWE, then Christian TV and then YouTube. Now here I am. Here I am, Lord, to do your bidding. That’s what we need to do. That’s what we need to say. We need to put our trust in God and not be scared of the giants that we’re facing. So David came with his ten loaves of bread or whatever he had for, you know, to feed everybody, and he saw that they were, like, mocking, and everybody was so scared. And David’s like, he’s just a young kid, you know, I remember when I was young and I first came into the.
Into my faith, and I was just so on fire. I’m like, how can you not go out there and preach the gospel, you know, because you don’t think. You don’t have any fear. You’re fearless. When God first calls you. Then over a time, you learn. You learn wisdom, and you learn to be a little more patient. You learn to act a little less rashly. But in this case, God needed David to be a little more rash, if you will. He needed an example of someone who had just this righteous faith. And he said, I’ll fight the giant.
And his brothers were mocking him. Meanwhile, he was there to take care of his brothers. He was there to. You ever try to help somebody and then they attack you? You ever try to lift somebody up or you offer them some. You know, I get this a lot where I encourage people or whatever else, and then they’re quick to, like, throw you down, tear you up? I had somebody that I was just communicating with just recently who’s a big follower of some Internet craze, and I was trying to just encourage him into the lord, and of course, he turns on me.
You ever try to help somebody and that happens? Well, that’s because those evil, lying spirits that are within us, that possess people to think the worst, they reveal themselves when the truth of God is known. So they were kind of giving them a hard time. But he’s like, no, I’ll do it. Saul’s like, hey, take my armor. You want to do it? Go ahead. Take my armor. You want to be a big man? Go ahead. And David says, no, no, I haven’t proven that armor. In other words, it’s not even going to fit me. I don’t need your armor.
What does David do? He goes to, like, a brook. And you got to remember something. You got a picture. You got two mountains, and then you got, like, the valley. So they could be on the tops of the mountains enjoying things. But they were in the lowest place. And in the lowest place, there was a brooke. Just like when Elijah was in the wilderness and he was hiding from Jezebel. There was a stream. Sometimes, though, it dries up. But in this case, that little brook, that torrent that was coming down, he took out five smooth stones, and he had just a slingshot.
And of course, what is a smooth stone but a stone? A stone that has been polished, a stone that has been worn down of all of its rough edges. Think about that. A smooth, perfect stone. I got one right here. Take a look. Pick this up at the beach. Like a smooth stone, he picked up this smooth stone, he put it into his. He put it into his slingshot, and he wound it up. But before he did that, Gath, the giant from Gath, was making fun of him. The giant from Gath was mocking him, tearing them down.
And all it took was one smooth stone. That’s it. One simple act of faith, one well placed, polished faith directed at the problem. And the problem goes bye bye. Where did it hit the giant of Gath? Where’s that? Right there. The forethought. You’re thinking. His thinking, just like the truth of God, destroys the carnal man in us the instant that Christ throws it our way. But they were all upset with David when he first came. And he was gonna, you know, he was gonna take the giant on. They’re like, what are you doing? What do you do? You don’t know what you’re doing.
And David said, what have I now done? Is there not cause? And he turned from them toward. And spoke to the same manner of the people saying. And when the words which were heard, which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul, and then they sent them to Saul. Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight this philistine. He’s like, don’t let anybody scare you. Your servant’s gonna go. I’m gonna fight that Philistine. He reminded him, I both slew a lion when they came after the flock. I did all of these things because the Lord was with me.
David took his staff in his hand, which is symbolic of, you know, the. The ministry that God has given you or the testimony God has given you. And he chose him five smooth stones out of the brick and put them in the shepherd’s bag, which he had even in a script. And his sling was in his hand. And he drew it near the Philistine. And the Philistine came up and drew near David. And the man that bare the shield went before him. And when the Philistines looked about and saw David, he disdained him because he was young, he was ruddy, he was inexperienced.
And the Philistines said, david, am I a dog that you’re coming out with me with staves? You know what a stave is? It’s like a stick. It’s like a magic wand. That’s what a stave is. It’s like a little. It’s like a little staff. It’s like nothing. It’s like he’s like, am I a dog? What are you gonna do? You gonna spank me? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistines, philistines said, david, come to me and I will give your flesh to the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field.
Isn’t it funny when our giants come against us, how they scare us so much, how they tear us down so much? And then David said to the Philistines, you come to me with a sword and a spear, with a shield, but I come in the name of God, in the name of the Lord of hosts and the God of the armies of Israel, who you have defiled this day, the Lord will deliver you into my hand. And that’s exactly what happened. And this is the end result. David, after he destroyed him, he took the sword of Goliath, his own sword.
David used the very thing that Goliath used to kill all of God’s army, and he cut his head off. Now, cutting off the head of something is very symbolic because you got to think about this for a second. Remember John the Baptist? JOHN the Baptist, if it wasn’t for his head getting chopped off, because he said, I am less than the least in the kingdom. John the Baptist was six months older than Jesus. Six, the number of man. John the Baptist is a picture of the religious man. He was doing things that weren’t lawful. He was in the wilderness.
He was wearing dead animal pelts. He was eating wild honey and locusts, for crying out loud. And he was screaming nonstop, repent, repent, repent. Because the kingdom of God is upon him. Because that’s what happens first. We all go to John the Baptist, just like Jesus went to John the Baptist to get baptized. We all get baptized into the religious idea of things. But Jesus said very clearly of men that are born of women, the religious man, John the Baptist is the greatest. But in the kingdom of God, he’s less than the least. The least in the kingdom of God is the last one in your religion ain’t gonna get you into the kingdom of God.
John the Baptist, when he was in prison, when he went through a hard time, he said, he’s like, wait a minute, hang on a second. Aren’t you the one? Or should we wait for another? John the Baptist had his head chopped off. Goliath had his head chopped off. There’s a time when religious pride is going to leave you. There’s a time when your egotistical ideas about things are going to leave you. There’s a time when Christ is going to cut off the authority of that because ahead is where you think, right? So it has to happen, and it is going to happen in all of your lives.
So this story is not just about King David. It’s about you and it’s about me. Isn’t that awesome? So next time you’re facing something or you have an insurmountable task, you say, you may come in the name of, like, the IR’s, or you may come in the name of, like, the electric bill, or you may come in the name of my naughty, you know, grumpy neighbors. But I come in the name of the Lord God. And you can stand up to that giant and you watch it fall. All right? I love each and every one of you.
I hope that you enjoyed that. If you want, check out Manuel Gosman. He’s at lolosart.com. nice guy. Really nice guy. And it really made me, he always cheers me up when people recognize me. He makes me feel really good. It does. It’s like, it’s exciting for me. And I love all of you. I hope that you take the time to hit the like button, that you share this video around, that you subscribe. I hope you learned something today and you know that there’s more descriptions. I encourage you to read these stories, you know, or just go through my biblical playlist or go to my website, jacobisrael.com which is right there, right there on the screen.
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eastern Standard Time, we do a meetup. If you want to sign up for the Patreon, all you got to do is click that link and become part of a community that’s getting together and growing. I love it. All right. I love each and every one of you. I’ll talk to you soon. Bye bye. Life in this world for us begins with our fearful cry, and for many it ends the same. That is because upon ourselves we took the sins of the world. All the fear, all the lies, all the hate and all the shame. We talked to who we were when we believed we were simply our past, our heartache, our traditions, our beliefs and our made trapped in a cycle of what could have, should have, would’ve until we have the wisdom, the courage and the wherewithal to change emirates of the power within because of this world spin making the same mistakes again and again and again the gods of this world have become blind, powerless, ephemeral lake arise, arise o existing one, the one who hides behind the eyes of those who gnash the teeth we hate and blame for there is a beast ruling in your stead that you must help us today.
So God will be the days when things come into this world with a fearful cry and leave the same.
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