The Mystery of the First and Second Husbands of Ruth, Abigail, and Bathsheba
II SAMUEL 11:2-3
2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide (eveningtide = evening time), that David arose from off his bed (David is a type of Christ, and Christ is the word – and the bible is telling us here that David arose at evening time, because this is a prophesy for this day of a resurrection in that “at evening time, it shall be light - a resurrection of the word at evening time – we have to read the love story between the lines), and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
We know that in Eden, sin looked very beautiful to Eve, yet God is the creator or beauty, but then Satan will use beauty for the purpose of enticement into sin, and then he can just sit back and watch the show, because God is then obligated to bring judgement on sin.
The events of this chapter 11 of second Samuel become a turning point in David’s life. After this his daughter Tamar is raped by her half-brother Amnon (Amnon was David’s firstborn), then around two years later, Absalom has Amnon murdered, then Absalom rebels and is killed - on and on went David’s troubles, not even the sword would leave his house – there was continual wars. And this is all put in the bible for us to read.
3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
David enquires should have immediately stopped there – all thought of any involvement with Bathsheba should have immediately and totally ceased.
*But we know that things did go on, and the account of these things became a part of the word of God, and so we want to study into this a little deeper with the help and wisdom of the revelation of this hour in order to see what God’s purpose was for these events in David’s life to become a part of Holy Scripture.
The Mystery of the First and Second Husbands of Ruth, Abigail, and Bathsheba
We notice that this chapter of second Samuel 11 begins with the sin of adultery and ends with a marriage – and the bible in Genesis also begin with adultery and ends with a marriage in Revelation.
So these events in David’s life are not just put there to show us how sinful and to expose David’s secret sins to the world, but God is showing us a mystery of how (by the unusual circumstances of these events), that a woman comes into a marriage after the death of her first husband of whose death was assisted by her second husband to be.
We know that Bathsheba (this beautiful married woman) is a type of the end time bride who brings forth the promised son of David who is Christ. Bathsheba becomes the mother of King Solomon who was in type the resurrection of the first child from Bathsheba’s womb that died.
*So this chapter is showing us a revelation of this end time hour of Christ and His last day bride, because the marriage of the Lamb has come in this hour, and our new husband to be (the word of this hour) has been an assistant in the death of our old husband nature that we came united with at birth.
*That is why your old husband nature had to first die in order for you to be united with your new husband nature of the word – and this story here in second Samuel 11 is showing this in mystery form.
*God is showing us by these events of David’s life (that seem so wrong to our thinking - and they were), yet God was still able to reveal through these events a great revelation for this end time age.
A prophet of God told us that if we could not see Christ in every verse of scripture, then to go back and read it again.
II SAMUEL 11:2-5
2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide (evening time), that David arose from off his bed (David is a type of Christ, and Christ is the word – so we know straight away that this story is about to show us a mystery of the resurrection of the word at evening time), and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. (This was after the age of sanctification under Wesley)
3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? – a married woman
4 And David sent messengers (a type of the 7 messengers of seven church ages who were sent out into each age to get a bride for Christ), and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. (This was a consented event – Bathsheba willingly consented)
5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. (Notice - A woman conceiving and with child at evening time while her first husband is still alive and fighting in a battle – this is why your first husband nature will always be fighting battles.
**Many would wonder why this story is even spoken of in the bible, because we would think that these sorts of things would be best kept locked up securely in a “closet” as we would say.
LEVITICUS 20:10
10 ¶ And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
According to the law of God through Moses, both David and Bathsheba should have been put to death, and they would have both known this, and so there was like a desperate moment in David’s life for him to try to cover his sin like when Adam and Eve tried to cover their sin with fig leaves – but the only way to deal with sin is to confess it.
**But we all know how the events of this story went on, and so we want to see how God has placed golden nougats of truth that lay underneath this story.
II SAMUEL 12:5-7
5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man (David himself was actually this man that Nathan the prophet was telling him about in the story); and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
*Look at how David was so extreme and harsh in his judgement in that he pronounced death on a man that had actually only stolen another man’s lamb instead of using one of his own lambs from his own plenteous flocks – sure that was a really mean thing to do, but there is no law about handing out the death penalty for stealing someone’s lamb.
So look at how much lower of what the crime was that David would have handed out the death penalty for – this is showing us the mercy levels of man compared to the mercy levels of God.
We also remember how that David was going to kill Nabal for not giving him the food that he requested for his soldiers, but there is no scripture that allows you to kill people for that either, nor would that even be considered justice)
…and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
*Last week we saw how that Elimelech’s inheritance was fully redeemed back by the virtue of a marriage that took place between Boaz and Ruth at harvest time.
Under Ruth’s first marriage, she ended up in poverty and having to glean leftovers in order to survive, but then she received redemption, security and wealth by virtue of her second marriage.
Her union to Boaz was what brought her out of her poverty and into wealth and the full restoration of Elimelech’s fallen inheritance restored, and so we know that this story of Ruth is a prophecy of this end time hour that is showing us that the Eden promised for the millennium that is to come is a condition that can only come back by the way of a marriage at harvest time (evening time).
**All these things are hidden secrets of redemption, because the bible is the book of redemption, it holds the entire plan of redemption.
**All the women in the bible are showing us something of this hour.
*Sarah was turned back young after the visitation of God revealed in human form.
*Rebekah met Eliezer at the well and followed him to her unseen bridegroom. *Rahab was under the token with all her family being saved with her.
*Esther was married to the king and could speak up to half the Kingdom.
*Ruth was a gleaner in the field at harvest time who came into a marriage union with Boaz, the kinsman redeemer.
**All these women, God had written about in the bible to show us a prophecy of this end time hour.
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23 Now in Romans 7. Trusting that you have your Bibles open, everywhere now, across the country. We want to read closely now. This--this Message out of here, it seems like it's on marriage and divorce, but it really isn't. To me, it's a prophecy for the Church in the last day. (Keep this in mind as he reads this scripture) Let us read.
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
So then if, while her husband liveth, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be joined or should be married to another, even to him who is risen from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. (Fruit require conception and birth)
For when we were in the flesh,... motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
A prophet of God is telling us that this scripture here unfolds one of the great mysteries of prophecy for the end time in that Jesus is going to be married in this Hour, the one who was risen from the dead and has also risen in this hour like king David arose at evening time.
**God and man are going to be joined as one again in union, and this is the invisible union that is literally taking place right now in this hour. This is what we are called to manifest in this hour.
**The first husband that we were all united in marriage with was the husband of our fallen human nature that came into the earth at odds with God – we placed our own thoughts as a greater thing than God’s thoughts.
*This fallen human nature that we were all born with because of the fall in Eden is the very thing of what has caused all the troubles for the human race of all the sin and sadness and poverty and sorrow and death and war and corruption that we have seen since the fall of man in Eden up to this time now.
**It is this corrupted human nature (that is not in harmony with the word of God) that is responsible for all the troubles of mankind, because this nature will never allow peace to reign on earth – yet it is the first nature that we were born with and married to when we came into this world.
*This is what the message of the hour has taught us, and so we know that the scriptures must show something of the depth of the truth of this also.
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206 Life is a sacred thing, to God, and it's recorded in a book. God is the author of life. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
207 Our natural life here, we have, is just a perversion. It really should be the right life, to begin with, but it's perverted by the natural birth. The first life, or your first union, you were joined in at birth, by nature, a natural act. A natural human being associated, man and woman together, associated together in sexual affair, which brought your first life here, and that's associated with sin and death. How can you miss seeing the serpent's seed?
*These are the things of what God is teaching us in this hour through the ministry of His seventh angel.
*So then we want to look at these first and second husbands of Ruth, Abigale, and Bathsheba, because they all reveal to us (from different angles) the mystery of our first “husband’s” fallen nature that we all came with by default at our first birth.
To be continued - the Lord willing...