Welcome to The Daily Blade

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Welcome to the Daily Blade . The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit , the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil . Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson , and they stand ready to equip men for the fight . Let's sharpen up .

Journey to Golgotha Begins

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All right , guys , this week I'm taking you on a journey to Golgotha . So up to this point we have explored the life of Abraham , how God called him to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice . How Abraham was prepared to obey but was halted by an angel of God , the angel of God . And how God then provided a mature male lamb caught in a thorn , bush , as a substitutionary offering . And then we fast forwarded about a thousand years to the reign of King Saul . Saul turned from God , so God turned from him . David , a teenage shepherd boy , was then anointed by the prophet Samuel to be the next king of Israel . And then David found himself in Saul's house as a servant charged with calming him down when he was being attacked by demonic spirits . Then we have the Israelite and Philistine armies squaring off for battle and the Philistine champion , a giant named Goliath , challenges the Israelites for 40 days to send out a champion from their ranks to fight him . Nobody stepped up until David caught wind of this and he volunteered for the fight and Saul said go , and the Lord be with you . So then David goes to the battlefield . He's armed with only five stones and a sling . So let's pick up the narrative back in 1 Samuel 17 , starting in verse 42

David versus Goliath Battle

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. And when the Philistine looked and saw David , he disdained him , for he was but a youth , ruddy and handsome in appearance . And the Philistine said to David am I a dog that you come with me with sticks ? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods . The Philistine said to David come to me and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field . Then David said to the Philistine you come to me with a sword and 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 this day . The Lord will deliver you into my hand and I will strike you down and cut off your head and I will give you the dead bodies of the hosts of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth . And that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves , not with sword and spear , for the battle is the Lord's and he will give you into our hand .

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When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David . David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine and David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead . The stone sank into his forehead and he fell on the face to the ground . So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and struck the Philistine and killed him . There was no sword in the hand of David . Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it . When the Philistine saw that their champion was dead , they fled and David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem , but he put the armor in his tent .

The Fate of Goliath's Head

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So , guys , on this story as a quick side note , people have wondered aloud why David , if he knew that God was with him and that it would only take a single stone to get the job done , then why did he take five stones with him to the battlefield ? Well , this is why you should read your Bible , because in 2 Samuel 21 , we learned that Goliath had brothers . How many brothers ? Four . So essentially , david was like Goliath , I got one for you , and if your brothers come to avenge you , then I've got one for each of them too . I mean , let's go Like he was ready , but let's go and get back to David here .

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So after verse 54 , 1 Samuel 17 , the Bible goes silent on what became of the head of Goliath . So this is where we have to rely on some early rabbinical writings and some Jewish and Christian tradition . So at this time Jerusalem wasn't the city of David yet . Okay , because David wasn't David yet . So it was a Jebusite fortress . And in this day the conquering king or champion would take the head of the defeated king or champion and put it on display for all to see . So kind of a you know , a run up and get done up kind of a thing . But that wasn't going to fly inside the walls of Jerusalem again , because at this time it's a Jebusite fortress .

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So tradition says that David , the teenage shepherd , lyre player , buried the head of Goliath on the mountainside on a mountainside near Jerusalem . Buried the head of Goliath on the mountainside on a mountainside near Jerusalem . The mountain , the same place . God stayed . The hand of Abraham the same

Significance of Mount Moriah

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place . God provided a substitutionary sacrifice in the form of an adult male lamb with its head stuck in a crown of thorns . The same place where God promised Abraham that through his offspring , all the nations of the earth would be blessed . The official name of the mountain Mount Moriah , but it became colloquially known as the place of a skull . The Hebrew word for this place is Golgoleth . The Aramaic word for this place is Golgolta . The Latin word for this place is Calvary , where we get the word Calvary , but most of us today know this place in the Greek Golgotha . I'll see you there tomorrow .

Episode Closing

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