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The Problem and Solution

If the Israelites in the days of Samuel had understood that their desire for a king “like all the nations” (1 Samuel 8:5) would institute an oppressive and unjust government, perhaps they would not have made such a demand. The implication is that they believed that God (Christ), who was their only King at the time, was oppressive.

After all, they had already spent a third of their time in the Promised Land under the rule of foreign nations and foreign gods. Why? Scripture says it was because they wanted to worship those foreign gods and adopt their way of life. They wanted freedom to worship whatever god they thought suited them, thereby violating their covenant in Exodus 19:8.

All sin is reckoned as a debt, and when the sinner lacks the resources to pay his debt, the law says he must be “sold” (Exodus 22:3) as a slave to work off his debt. So we read in Judges 3:8 that God “sold them” to the Mesopotamian king. In Judges 4:2 we read again that “the Lord sold them” into the hands of the king of Canaan.

In Judges 10:7 we read again that God “sold them,” this time to the Philistines and to the Ammonites. In 1 Samuel 12:9 God again “sold them” to the Philistines and Moabites. In no case does Scripture attribute a captivity to the foreign nation’s great military strength. The carnal mind would naturally attribute captivity to a nation’s military superiority, but God always takes credit for putting Israel under foreign domination.

The sin of Israel in Samuel’s day was not that they failed to worship the God of Israel per se. It was that they lost faith in His righteous standard for them. The people thought of God as a tyrant, ruling by a law that stifled their desired way of life. They desired the right to sin, which, according to Paul in Romans 6:12, was the desire of the “old self” to be the slave of the law of sin and death. Hence, instead of crucifying the “old self” (Romans 6:8), men naturally want to indulge its carnal desires, thereby becoming slaves of sin.

This was the problem in the days of Samuel. To the Israelites in his time, the foreign kings seemed preferable to God, less oppressive, and more freedom-loving. This attitude toward the laws of God is still prevalent in large sections of the church that do not “concur with the law of God” (Romans 7:22). They followed the outer man (flesh), rather than the “inner man” (spirit).

Essentially, they did not really know the God of Israel that they claimed to worship.

Saul, the Rebellious Pentecostal King

God gave them Saul as their king. Saul was legitimately anointed by God to be their king, not because it was the will of God, but because He answered their prayer. Saul was crowned on the day of “wheat harvest” (1 Samuel 12:17), which was the feast of Weeks (later known as Pentecost). He became the primary type and shadow of the church under Pentecost. While Saul himself reigned just 40 years, the church under its Pentecostal anointing reigned 40 Jubilees.

Saul started out as a good king, but ended as a king in rebellion against God, one who refused to obey God’s instructions (1 Samuel 15:11). God warned Saul that “rebellion is as the sin of divination, and insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry” (1 Samuel 15:23). God foresaw where his rebellion would eventually lead him. So at the end of his reign, Saul even consulted the witch of En-dor (1 Samuel 28:6-8).

Every year in the life of Saul set the pattern for a Jubilee cycle in church history. Where Scripture dates an event, we can see its parallel in church history.

The Little Horn

In Daniel 7 we read of four beast empires that were given dominion over the earth. The fourth was Imperial Rome, but that beast also had a “horn” which was an extension of power, based on Imperial Rome, but yet distinct. As it turned out, this “horn” was Religious Rome—the church, which, by this time, had taken on the “rebellion” and “insubordination” of King Saul. In other words, instead of ruling as a steward, it usurped power and expected God to agree with its own man-made decrees.

As such, it persecuted the overcomers, even as Saul had persecuted David and his company. To this day the church believes that its reign will never end, citing Matthew 16:18. No doubt Saul felt the same way, having been legitimately anointed at the beginning. But the church as a whole remains blinded to the fact that it is a reflection of King Saul, whose reign, though legitimate, was finite. The true church referenced in Matthew 16:18 is typed by David, not Saul. Hence, the overcomers will rule the age to come under the anointing of the feast of Tabernacles.

This brings us to the present time at the close of the age. We are seeing the transition from Saul to David, prophetically speaking. The church’s cup of iniquity is now full and overflowing. The hypocrisy is rampant. The New Covenant has been redefined as a warmed-over Old Covenant. The word of the Lord from the overcomers has been rejected by most church leaders. The church has sided with the Zionist Edomites in the dispute over the birthright. The church has blessed the warmongers and sanctified the murder of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children in Gaza alone.

The majority in the church have followed the way of Cain, who hated his brother (1 John 3:15) while claiming hypocritically to be motivated by love. They do not follow Jesus’ example of love toward non-Jews. They pretend that Jesus is pleased with them when they applaud such murder. In so doing, their hearts have been exposed in the divine court, and sentencing will soon follow.

As I have shown elsewhere, the year 2017 was when the legal declaration took place in the divine court, transferring the dominion to the saints of the Most High (Daniel 7:22). Since then, we have had two presidents, each representing (and exposing) the heart of a divided America. Between the two of them, they represent a clear majority of America. I have no power to tell the Judge how to decide the case, but I know what Daniel 7 tells us.

Neither the church nor America as a nation will come out of this unscathed. God is just and He is impartial in His judgments. When He judged the Canaanites long ago, He made it clear that if the Israelites adopted their practices, He would judge them in the same way (Deuteronomy 8:19, 20).

Stock Up on Oil

We are now preparing to enter the New Covenant promise of God, which is the redemption of our body. Those who adhere to New Covenant principles will inherit the first resurrection (Revelation 20:6). The rest will have to experience some level of divine judgment and receive life at the general resurrection (John 5:28, 29) a thousand years later (Revelation 20:7, 11, 12).

There is still time to repent, but time is running out. Do not follow the example of the foolish virgins who experienced an oil shortage (Matthew 25:8). The world’s oil shortage that we see in the news today is exposing an inward condition. If the inward condition did not exist, we would have have an outward shortage of oil, because all of the root causes of war would cease to exist.