David, the Failed Intercessor on Mount Zion

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Mountain E6 — In 2 Samuel, David is crowned king of a unified Israel, and after choosing Jerusalem as his capital city, he brings the ark of the covenant to Mount Zion. It seems like things are going great—a priestly king has unified the tribes and all of Israel’s enemies are subdued! But it doesn’t last. After committing adultery and murder, David also foolishly calls for a census of his army (which according to the Law, no Israelite leader was supposed to do). And things just get worse. In this episode, Jon and Tim discuss the failures of David and how his story highlights the need for a faithful intercessor who will surrender his life on the mountain for the good of the people.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bible Project podcast. We've been tracing the theme of the mountain throughout the story of the Bible.
0:10.6	Mountains in the Bible are an overlapping space of heaven and earth, where humans can be in God's
0:16.5	presence and learn to live by his wisdom. The story of the Bible begins on a mountain, Mount Eden.
0:24.0	And as the story of the Bible continues, we read story after story of people being called back
0:29.8	to mountains, to sacrifice their own version of life in order to find true life.
0:35.4	We've seen how Moses was an intercessor for Israel on the cosmic mountain,
0:39.8	willing to lay down his life so that Israel can stay in God's presence.
0:44.7	In today's episode, we're going to get to King David.
0:47.8	Now, King David made Mount Zion God's cosmic mountain
0:51.0	when he brought tabernacle there.
0:53.5	And from Mount Zion, David leads Israel
0:56.0	with wisdom for a while, until he has his own time of testing, which ends in failure. He sees a
1:03.1	beautiful woman that isn't his, he takes her, and he kills her husband. God stays committed to David
1:08.7	through the end of his life, even though he does this.
1:11.7	What he says is, I'm committed to you, but you just made your bed, and now you and your family's
1:17.0	going to sleep in it.
1:18.2	So the rest of the Samuel story from here is pretty dismal and sad.
1:22.2	What I want to talk about now is one of the most puzzling, disturbing stories in the David's story as a whole, and it's also
1:29.4	a vitally important cosmic mountain. Today, we're going to look at a story in 2nd Samuel 24. In this
1:37.7	story, David takes a census of the armies of Israel, and it brings a curse on the land. Now, there's many
1:43.7	riddles hidden in the story.
1:45.5	For example, how the story begins.
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