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DAVID vs. GOLIATH & THE MARK OF THE BEAST

In my quiet time meditating with the Lord the Lord Jesus spoke and revealed to me the battle between David and Goliath and how that battle represents the Mark of The Beast. So as I went to scripture to read this accounting of events I thought I’d just share what the Lord spoke and revealed to me but as I read the scriptures more was given. So I am including the whole chapter of 1 Samuel 17 along with other scriptures. I will place my comments in between the scriptures as there is much to share.

Let me start out by stating that numerology plays a significant importance on scriptures and the meaning of scriptures so pay attention to numbers.

In the Bible, the number 8 symbolizes new beginnings, resurrection, and a new creation. This is because Jesus was resurrected on the eighth day, the day after the Sabbath, marking a new era and victory over death. Other examples include Noah’s family (8 people) being saved in the ark, signifying a new start for humanity, and the practice of circumcising baby boys on the eighth day, representing a new covenant with God. 

David was the eighth son and the number eight has great significance in David’s calling and reigning over Israel as well as the “bloodline” of in incarnate Christ Jesus.

1 Samuel 16:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.”

In Samuel 16 we learn that the Holy Spirit departed from Saul and that is why Samuel was commissioned to anoint David as King prior to the battle of David and Goliath. I suggest that what I share today is a “foreshadow” of the true Church/Bride of Christ in the end of the age as well as the journey each Christian is called to in the spiritual battle of this world.

1 Samuel 16:14 (ESV)

David in Saul’s Service

¹⁴ Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.

I would like you to keep in mind Genesis 6 and the fallen angels and what the Lord revealed about the times of the flood and Jesus stating that it will be as in the days of Noah.

Genesis 6:1–8 (NKJV)

The Wickedness and Judgment of Man

6 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, ² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

³ And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴ There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵ Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” ⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Please keep in mind Genesis 6:1-8 especially the bold and underlined texts as I will touch upon these later regarding the Mark of the Beast.

1 Samuel 17:1–58 (NKJV)

David and Goliath

17 Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle, and were gathered at Sochoh, which belongs to Judah; they encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim. ² And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and they encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array against the Philistines. ³ The Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.

Mountains represent “high places” where the gods dwell. It is a place of power and empowerment to those that worship the gods of those “high places”.

⁴ And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. ⁵ He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. ⁶ And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. ⁷ Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him. ⁸ Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

Goliath was six cubits in height, wore/had six pieces of armor or equipment, and the spearhead weighed six hundred shekels of iron. In other words “666” or “six hundred and sixty six”. This battle between David and Goliath was a battle to the death because the two were enmity to each other.

This is where many Christians struggle they serve other religious people falsely believing they are serving the Lord Christ Jesus! How is it that Goliath recognized that the army of the Israelite’s served Saul and not the Lord of Hosts? Remember the Spirit of God departed from Saul as stated previously in 1 Samuel 16:14 as we read earlier. I have always marveled at how Satan knows who we are in Christ but professing Christians do not know who someone is in Christ! There is no real discerning of spirits among the brethren.

Acts 19:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”

1 Samuel 17 continued

⁹ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”

In verse 9 let us not forget that there is only two kingdoms, light and darkness and each is represented by a god. Either the god of this world or the TRUE LIVING GOD CHRIST JESUS who is the God above all other gods! What Goliath was actually stating was that if he won that the Israelite’s would serve the god of Goliath! Now if you take what I just said and apply it to the “end of the age” and the ONE WORLD ORDER/GOVERNMENT it is all about worshiping Satan who is the god of this world! More later.

Exodus 20:3 (NKJV)

³ “You shall have no other gods before Me.

¹⁰ And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” ¹¹ When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

I highlighted “give me a man” because a human without Christ cannot do battle with spiritual entities. I mentioned in an earlier post that too many Christians falsely believe that if they just love someone as Jesus does that that person would be healed or come to Christ. Sadly the demons in those people you are attempting do not receive the Love of Christ as they ONLY respond to Christ’s divine authority! God has no love for demons thus love is of no affect! We do not see or hear of Christians casting out demons because of false teachings, lack of spiritual discernment, no spiritual growth in Christ and no true love of Christ Jesus because if you love what Christ loves you will also hate what Christ hates!

2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

1 Samuel 17 continued

¹² Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse, and who had eight sons. And the man was old, advanced in years, in the days of Saul. ¹³ The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone to follow Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. ¹⁴ David was the youngest. And the three oldest followed Saul. ¹⁵ But David occasionally went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

¹⁶ And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening.

¹⁷ Then Jesse said to his son David, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp. ¹⁸ And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers fare, and bring back news of them.” ¹⁹ Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

²⁰ So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle. ²¹ For Israel and the Philistines had drawn up in battle array, army against army. ²² And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper, ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. ²³ Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them. ²⁴ And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid. ²⁵ So the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, and give his father’s house exemption from taxes in Israel.”

²⁶ Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

²⁷ And the people answered him in this manner, saying, “So shall it be done for the man who kills him.”

In verses 25 and 26 I want to emphasis that Saul did not have the power to do this as it was the Lord Jesus who called, anointed and commissioned David to be king! The Holy Spirit had already departed from Saul thus David was standing in his calling and anointing even though David was not recognized as King and later we know David did not retaliate against Saul even though Saul sought to kill him. David did not kill Goliath to achieve wealth, prestige or notoriety David did it in service to the Lord. Hope you see a hint of the false prosperity gospel! We serve the Lord for who HE IS not what for what we may obtain from Him. Also notice David stated that Goliath was uncircumcised of the HEART meaning godless and not of Christ Jesus!

²⁸ Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”

I know personally as I have been accused of being prideful, arrogant and lacking humility from demonic religious leaders, leaders of seminary, etc! They HATE AND DESPISE someone who has confidence in Christ Jesus so they accuse you of what is in them and that is what Satan does as Satan is the accuser of the brethren!

²⁹ And David said, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?” ³⁰ Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did.

³¹ Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him. ³² Then David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

³³ And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”

There is NO age discrimination in the Kingdom of Heaven/God! I have had many so called professing Christians rebuke me when I started my calling with the Lord as they would make comments that they have been a Christian for 30 years! I was not impressed at all in where they were spiritually for 30 years of proclaiming faith in Christ Jesus! This was pride, arrogance and a form of manipulation and intimidation being used against me which I did NOT embrace or accept.

³⁴ But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, ³⁵ I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. ³⁶ Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”

What David spoke has great importance and significance in the end hours we are living in. David overcame by the Blood of the Lamb, the Word of his testimony and loved not his life unto death!

Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

1 Samuel 17 continued

³⁷ Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”

³⁸ So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. ³⁹ David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” So David took them off.

In verse 38 we see David removing all of the false protection such as the helmet, coat of mail and sword! Now if you go back to Genesis 6 as I mentioned in the beginning it was one of the fallen angels who taught men how to make swords, breastplates and do warfare! If you also refer to Ephesians 6 and the “FULL ARMOR” of God is NOT what Saul gave to David! This battle was much more than physical it was SPIRITUAL!

According to religious texts like the Book of Enoch, fallen angels taught humans a variety of forbidden skills, including metallurgy and weapon-making, cosmetics, sorcery and magic, and astrology and divination. These teachings are often presented as leading to increased sin, violence, and corruption on Earth.

Knowledge and skills taught

Warfare and metalworking: Angels like Azazel taught humans how to forge weapons such as swords, knives, and shields, and how to work with metals to create ornaments and armor.

Cosmetics and adornment: They showed humans how to beautify the body, including painting the eyelids and using dyes and costly stones.

Magic and sorcery: Some fallen angels instructed humans in spells, charms, and how to cut roots for medicinal or magical purposes.

Divination and astronomy: Teachings included the interpretation of signs from the sun, moon, clouds, and earth, which is also known as astrology.

Other skills: Depending on the source, other skills mentioned include the creation of jewelry, the use of cosmetics, and even the knowledge of how to cause abortions.

Why these teachings were forbidden

Caused corruption: The knowledge imparted by the fallen angels was seen as corrupting, leading to great impiety, fornication, and violence on Earth.

“Eternal secrets”: These teachings revealed secrets that were meant to be kept in heaven, and human attempts to learn them were seen as an abomination.

Lead to judgment: As a result of these teachings and the resulting corruption, God sent a great flood to cleanse the Earth.

 

1 Samuel 17 continued

⁴⁰ Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine.

Here is where things get more interesting! Five is the number of grace and David picked up five “SMOOTH” stones from the brook. Smooth signifies refinement as Peter states we are “living stones” unto Christ Jesus and the brook would have been the refinement of “living water” and the Holy Spirit within us!

1 Peter 2:4–8 (NKJV)

The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People

⁴ Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, ⁵ you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,

“Behold, I lay in Zion

A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,

And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”

⁷ Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient,

“The stone which the builders rejected

Has become the chief cornerstone,”

⁸ and

“A stone of stumbling

And a rock of offense.”

They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.

1 Samuel 17 continued

⁴¹ So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. ⁴² And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. ⁴³ So the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. ⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

Notice once again I said this was a spiritual battle and not merely a physical battle! Goliath left the “high place of the mountain” where he summoned his god for power to defeat the Israelite’s. David was on a “high mountain with the Lord Jesus” receiving his power to defeat Goliath! It was a battle between the Lord Jesus the God above all gods against the fallen angels, gods of this world and principalities and powers! While on the subject of principalities I want to briefly mention that Jezebel was not only a spirit but a principality! Jezebel ruled over Israel through Ahab by using Ahab’s authority to do evil! So while Jezebel is a spirit it is also a principality seeking to rule over people, regions and territories and even the church as in Revelation 2!

⁴⁵ Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. ⁴⁶ This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. ⁴⁷ Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

⁴⁸ So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. ⁴⁹ Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. ⁵⁰ So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. ⁵¹ Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.

Now think with me here and notice where the rock struck Goliath! The Lord was surely able and capable of sinking that stone through the breastplate into Goliath’s heart but the stone struck Goliath where the “Mark of the Beast” was, on the forehead! When Revelation speaks of the “Mark of the Beast” being on the forehead and/or the right hand what this means is the same as was spoken in Genesis 6! The “Mark of the Beast” is a mind totally given to doing evil and the right hand is representing the power of the beast to do evil! Just as Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father and has all power and authority! When Revelation says the number of the beast is 666 I believe it is the complete opposite of what Jesus said the first commandment was in the New Testament in Matthew 22:37 as the opposite is the Mark of the Beast! The first 6 is part of a man being your heart, the second 6 is with all your soul and the third 6 would be all your mind. So this the true Mark of the Beast! A born again Christian receives a new heart of flesh and the Holy Spirit which is a new soul and the Word of God through the Spirit of God is renewing our mind! This is why Paul states to cast down the strongholds of our imagination and to “have this mind in you which is of Christ Jesus!

Matthew 22:37 (NKJV)

³⁷ Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

2 Corinthians 10:5 (NKJV)

⁵ casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Philippians 2:5 (NKJV)

The Humbled and Exalted Christ

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Genesis 6:5 (NKJV)

⁵ Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

1 Samuel 17 continued

And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. ⁵² Now the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell along the road to Shaaraim, even as far as Gath and Ekron. ⁵³ Then the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their tents. ⁵⁴ And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

⁵⁵ When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?”

And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”

⁵⁶ So the king said, “Inquire whose son this young man is.”

⁵⁷ Then, as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. ⁵⁸ And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?”

So David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

So while everyone is looking for a microchip, implantation, tattoo or bar code on the arm or forehead this is NOT the mark of the beast! It comes down to knowing people by the Spirit and Fruit of the Holy Spirit! A physical mark would only be needed for a “carnal person” but people will either by of Christ or AntiChrist which are spirits! Artificial intelligence is going to be used to implement the beast system and one world order but I believe that is why we have RETINA scanning. The eye is the gateway to the soul! Retina scanning will be looking into us, not just at us! I believe if your eyes are full of light it will detect that and if your eyes are filled with darkness it will detect that also! Pride has a look to it, anger has a look to it, hatred and murder has a look to it. If you walk in spiritual discernment you will see what is in the soul! The problem comes to what you want to see verses what the Lord wants to reveal to you! You can feel hatred when someone hates you and in today’s society evil has a boldness about it and makes no hesitation to let you witness, feel and hear the hatred!

Matthew 6:22–23 (NKJV)

²²  “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

1 Corinthians 2:15–16 (NKJV)

¹⁵ But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. ¹⁶ For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:6–16 (NKJV)

Spiritual Wisdom

⁶ However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. ⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, ⁸ which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹ But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹ For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

¹³ These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. ¹⁶ For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Well I hope this has been thought provoking to you and please take this to prayer for spiritual revelations from the Lord. It is the Holy Spirit that bares witness so if what I have posted doesn’t agree with you teachings of men, doctrines of demons please take it to the Lord. In a parting and provoking thought I want all of you to know that I have already been “raptured” as there is NO “rapture” in the bible only the second coming of Christ Jesus! I am raptured because I was delivered from the kingdom of darkness and the god of this world and I am now seated in heavenly place through Christ Jesus. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father the place of divine authority and I am seated in Christ Jesus and know and utilize the Authority of Christ to set the captives free! The church has failed to set the captives free they do not cast out demons which keep people bound and property of the devil!

May the Lord bless you, keep you and edify you in His Spirit and Truth! God bless all of my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.