Considering the current state of affairs, there are many people who have asked or have suggested

or have wondered how it is exactly that you can be a conservative rebel or a rebel in a time

when a system is becoming tyrannical. And so I thought that we could look at how exactly you could do that. And the best way to

look at that question is, of course, to look at the story of King David. In the story of King David,

we will find some very surprising imagery, some very surprising use of symbolism that will help us understand when it is that we have to be something like the snake that avoids being caught or something like the person who is dancing around the tyrannical system.

This is Jonathan Bejo.

Welcome to the symbolic world. So in the story of King David, King Saul represents very much the tyrannical king.

And you can see that he represents the tyrannical king because the reason why God is displeased

with him is because King Saul tries to take the sacrifice upon himself. That is he tries to act

as the spiritual authority, to take away the power from the spiritual authority and sacrifice

before the prophet arrives, who is the one who's supposed to do

the sacrifice. The other place where King Saul disappoints is when he does not obey the rule that God

gives. Now, that rule is a very, very dark and extreme rule that he receives from God. And one day,

we'll look at what that is talking about.

But for now, it's mostly important to understand that in the story, the reason why he's seen as

a tyrannical king is that he wants to concentrate power in himself, take it away from the prophet.

And ultimately, you could say, even, let's say, think that he can decide instead of God.

Because Saul is a tyrannical king, then the prophet Samuel will anoint David.

God will tell Samuel to anoint David to be the replacement of King Saul.

Now, at the outset, King David is hidden. It is not public that he is the

future king. At the moment, he is hidden. He is the secret king. And as the secret king, it will

become necessary for him to actually resist the tyranny of King Saul.

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