1 Samuel 7:5-8 – Then Samuel said, “Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will intercede with the Lord for you.” When they had assembled at
Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they
confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Now Samuel was serving as leader of Israel at Mizpah. When the
Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Mizpah, the rulers of the
Philistines came up to attack them. When the Israelites heard of it, they were
afraid because of the Philistines. They said to Samuel, “Do
not stop crying out to the Lord our God for us, that he may rescue us from
the hand of the Philistines.”
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Samuel 17:11 – On hearing the
Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.
Exodus 32:30 – The next day
Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But
now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for
your sin.”
Jeremiah 27:18 – If they are
prophets and have the word of the Lord, let them plead with the Lord Almighty
that the articles remaining in the house of the Lord and
in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not be taken to Babylon.
1 Kings 22:19 – Micaiah
continued, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting
on his throne with all the multitudes of
heaven standing around him on his right and on his left.
Exodus 32:11 – But Moses sought
the favor of the Lord his
God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against
your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
Numbers 14:13 – Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you
brought these people up from among them.
2 Kings 19:4 – It may be that
the Lord your
God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king
of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the
living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray
for the remnant that still survives.”
Jeremiah 7:16 – “So do not pray
for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead
with me, for I will not listen to you.
Application:
- · The fear of Saul and the Israelite army betrays a loss of faith in the covenant promises of the Lord. Their fear also demonstrates that the Israelites search for security in a human king had failed. On the basis of God’s covenant promises, Israel was never to fear her enemies but to trust in the Lord.
- · As persons who were called out from among the people to mediate God’s word to them, prophets were given unique access to God’s council chamber.
- · Samuel, like Moses, was later remembered as a great intercessor.
- · Moses so identified himself with Israel that he made his own death the condition for God’s destruction of the nation.
- · If they are true prophets and in communion with the Lord, let them intercede for Judah, because the Lord has announced His intention to judge the nation.
- · A true prophet was one who had, as it were, been made privy to what had transpired in God’s heavenly throne room and so could truthfully declare what God intended to do.
- · Using God’s own words, Moses appeals to God’s special relationship to Israel, then to God’s need to vindicate His name in the eyes of the Egyptians, and finally to the great patriarchal promises.
- · Moses desires to protect the Lord’s reputation.
- · Intercessory prayer was an important aspect of the ministry of the prophets.
- · A true prophet prayed for his people.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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