When you go and read commentators, you find that they all just say, well, nature fought on David's behalf.

But what does that even mean? They don't explain it. But the point here seems to be that the trees are somehow playing apart in the battle.

Absalom is the guy who is overthrowing David,

who's the chosen king of Israel. The narrator talks about these trees doing this,

and then he doesn't even comment on what he's saying. He's leaving it up to your imagination

to fill in the gaps. And at the end of the day, you're just left there thinking going,

wow, even God's forests are coming to the aid of the king that he has chosen to lead Israel.

And Absalom's son is not, you know, come on, this guy had to have been a master horseman.

He had to have been going through forests hundreds of times and his head just gets caught in an oak. I mean, how does

that even happen? The point is that the trees themselves do, in fact, seem to do the bidding of

God in that story in a way that, yeah, maybe Tolkien is,

you know, fantasizing about it in a way that makes our mind think, okay, the trees are moving,

you know, a thousand miles to go and fight a war over at Eisengard. And sure, that isn't what

happened. But nevertheless, there's something more going on here than just saying, you know, people just got lost in the forest.

I think that that's not doing justice to what the text is telling us.

The history of our Earth is so different from what we can imagine.

The Smithsonian that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere was to go get it.

I'm going to assume at least one person is right.

Because if one person's right, it bust the paradigm.

It all goes back to the fallen church.

And the problem with the modern day church, they have a very truncated view of the supernatural.

This backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount Herman event.

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