Seven Spirits Part 2

D. The parable of the pounds accords with Gill’s analysis. LUK 19:12-14. 1. Christ came unto His own nation but they rejected Him. JOH 1:11. 2. He went to heaven to secure a kingdom for Himself. REV 12:5-10. 3. He left His servants/ministers with gifts and orders. EPH 4:8-12. 4. His own nation continued their vitriol against Him by their rejection and persecution of His ministers of His gospel. 1TH 2:15. a. Per LUK 19:14, gospel rejection sends a message. b. The reply to the message was destructive wrath. MAT 22:6-7; 1TH 2:16. E. With the crucifixion of Christ, God's glory began departing from the nation, leaving it in a state of Ichabod. MAT 21:42-43 c/w 1SAM 4:21. 1. What was once God’s house became their house: Christ gave them title to what God abandoned at the crucifixion. MAT 23:38 c/w MAT 27:50-51. 2. As King Saul finally provoked God to withdraw His spirit from him to alight upon Seven Spirits 12-3-23 Page 2  David (1SAM 16:13-14), so the Spirit abandoned unbelieving Israel to fill the gospel church of faith. ACT 2:1-4. 3. Do not trivialize the implications of grieving/quenching the Spirit. EPH 4:30; 1TH 5:19. 4. God’s spirit transferring to David provoked envy and wrath in Saul. 1SAM 18:8-11 c/w ACT 17:1-5. 5. Saul plodded on without the Spirit for years until he died an ignominious death from foreign oppression (1SAM 31:1-6), as did Israel in 70 A.D. 6. Saul had numerous sons but only Mephibosheth was saved. 2SAM 21:6-7 c/w MAT 24:22. F. King Saul also looked to the occult for guidance. 1SAM 28:6-7. 1. The involvement of occult powers in Israel in the First Century should not be overlooked. MAL 3:1-5 c/w MAR 3:1-2; MAT 24:24. 2. ISA 28:9-16 has gospel times in mind. a. ISA 28:11-12 applies to the gift of tongues. 1CO 14:21. b. ISA 28:16 is a prophecy of Christ. 1PE 2:6. c. In the midst of this prophecy is a censure of Israel’s rulers which were in league with death and hell. (1) In Christ’s day, these would have been the scribes and Pharisees whom Christ was rebuking in MAT 12 and LUK 11. (2) They were the children of the Devil who evidently had made a covenant with death and hell as an insulation against destruction. JOH 8:3, 44 c/w ISA 28:15. (3) Their covenant got disanulled. ISA 28:18. 3. The Pharisees and their ilk were involved in counterfeit miracles and sorcery. MAT 12:27 c/w ACT 19:13-16; 13:6-8. 4. Occultism was consistent with their rebellion against God. Witchcraft and rebellion are both grasps for power in opposition to God, as Samuel rebuked King Saul. 1SAM 15:23. 5. It was the corruption of Pharisaism that infected the Jerusalem church. ACT 15:5. a. Their methodology was a bewitching. GAL 3:1. b. The only way for Pharisaism to have any accord with Christianity is by adhering only to those aspects of Pharisaism which were Biblical truth (like the resurrection of the dead) and renouncing the rest. MAT 23:1-3; ACT 23:6; 2CO 4:2; PHIL 3:5-7. c. NOTE: The problem is not so much the Pharisee. It is the Talmud which to this day still regulates Judaism. Believers must beware of their doctrine. MAT 16:12.