Journal Through the Bible, Week 42 Day 4

II Samuel 5:13-6:23

Does God make any commands?

•  In response to David's prayer, God told him that he should lead a military campaign against the Philistines and that God would deliver them into his hands.
• The next time David asked God about attacking the Philistines, God told him not to attack at that time but to go around and when he and the army reached the mulberry trees they should wait until the wind blowing in the top of the trees then they could launch their attack. Then God would give David the victory. David obeyed and won a victories from Geba to Gazer.
• God had given commands in the book of Leviticus stating how the Ark of the Covenant was to be moved on the shoulders of the priests and Levites. David didn't do his research the first time they attempted to move it and Uzzah died as a consequence. 

Does God issue any promises?

• God did not speak in this passage.

Does this passage teach anything about Jesus?

• The Ark of the Covenant with its Mercy Seat is a picture of the propitiation for sins. achieved through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
• There was only one way that the Ark was to be moved. God's instructions were to be followed or a breach would occur. There is only one to be moved from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Eternal Light. Jesus said that He is the Way, not a way, to the Father. Without Jesus, the breach between the sinner and God remains. (John 14:6)
• David is a picture of Jesus Christ when he blessed the people, fed them, gave them gifts, and sent them in peace to their dwellings after he had installed the ark in the place that he had prepared. Jesus told His disciples that He was going to prepare a place for them and us who believe (John 14:2). John chapters 14-17 are Jesus' words to His disciples detailing the blessings that He was giving to them and the peace that would be theirs.
• At the completion of his celebration one of David's wives, Michal, met him with disdain and cursing. After Jesus completed His blessing upon His disciples, one disciple, Judas, met Him with a betraying kiss.

Does this passage teach anything about future events?

• The celebration that followed the successful moving of the Ark of the Covenant is a picture of the celebrations of the redeemed in Heaven. (see Revelation chapters 4-5; 19-22).