"For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom".
Absalom was a young man in a hurry. He wanted to sit on the throne of his father, indifferent to the fact that God had put him there in the first place for him to make a case out of it.He had no say in it.
David was chosen by divine grace. Nathan refers to this in his rebuke, "Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight?"(2 Sa.12:7-14). Nathan was only a mouthpiece so he speaks,"Thus saith the Lord God of Israel," and having said 'And Nathan departed unto his house'.
Ahithophel was of a different mould. He was well aware of the perks that went with being 'king whisperer'. King shall hear only what he in his sagacity would speak. So his motives were different from that of Nathan. We see the same in our times, and men of God who are carefully making their moves in order to be considered as celebrity preachers. Naturally they miss what the word of God shall do. In their end their fall, when it comes, is as spectacular but a sordid one, even as it befell Judas Iscariot.
What was the key to the problem between the father and son? King David lusted after another man's wife, so much so he did it legally as a king could,"thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." He engineered his death to look like as a casualty of skirmish, and he did it cleverly. So Nathan would say,"For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." God forgives the penitent David but the word of God has been setting all the traps for Ahitophel who was riding high in the royal circle to switch sides when Absalom's star was on the rise. Disaster on Absalom was also in the cards.
Uriah, an Hittite has to be avenged. Gentile or Jew no matter. God is Just.
"For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom".
Absalom was a young man in a hurry. He wanted to sit on the throne of his father, indifferent to the fact that God had put him there in the first place for him to make a case out of it.He had no say in it.
David was chosen by divine grace. Nathan refers to this in his rebuke, "Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight?"(2 Sa.12:7-14). Nathan was only a mouthpiece so he speaks,"Thus saith the Lord God of Israel," and having said 'And Nathan departed unto his house'.
Ahithophel was of a different mould. He was well aware of the perks that went with being 'king whisperer'. King shall hear only what he in his sagacity would speak. So his motives were different from that of Nathan. We see the same in our times, and men of God who are carefully making their moves in order to be considered as celebrity preachers. Naturally they miss what the word of God shall do. In their end their fall, when it comes, is as spectacular but a sordid one, even as it befell Judas Iscariot.
What was the key to the problem between the father and son? King David lusted after another man's wife, so much so he did it legally as a king could,"thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." He engineered his death to look like as a casualty of skirmish, and he did it cleverly. So Nathan would say,"For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." God forgives the penitent David but the word of God has been setting all the traps for Ahitophel who was riding high in the royal circle to switch sides when Absalom's star was on the rise. Disaster on Absalom was also in the cards.
Uriah, an Hittite has to be avenged. Gentile or Jew no matter. God is Just.
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