After David received confirmation of Uriah's death [David sent Uriah to the front lines to be killed in order to make Bathsheba an available widow (actually he was sent right below a city wall only to be easily slaughtered by archers from above in the likes of Abimelech - see 2 Samuel 11:20-22 and Judges 9:50)], David sent this message back to Joab at the battle:
(2 Samuel 11:25) Thus you shall say to Joab: "Do not let this thing displease
you for the sword devours one as well as another..."
There are so many problems with this statement beginning with David continuing to cover up his tracks by making Uriah's death to somehow seem coincidental.
But can you imagine an American president declaring to his 21st century citizens after a soldier had died, referring to the death as just another statistic:
"Well, bombs kill one as well as another...what are you gonna do?"
That may be the last declaration that president ever made.
The Mission
2 Tim 4:1-4
I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
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