In 1 Kings 6 the Scripture mentions that in the 480 year period after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the 4th year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the 2nd month, Solomon began to build the house of the Lord. He built the structure against the whole house. Then the Word of the Lord came to Solomon and said to him: "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish My Word with you, which I spoke to David your father. And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."
In 2 Samuel 6 and 7 the Scripture mentions the ark of the Lord coming into the city of David and placed in the tent that David pitched for it. David offered God burnt and peace offerings there because of the victory over the Philistines. What happened here is that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing in the presence of the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
When David returned to bless his household, Michal, came out and met David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"
To understand why she walked in those elemental spirits we go to 1 Samuel 19. Saul, her father was afraid of David, because the Lord had departed from him and was with David. Saul removed David from his presence, and made him a a commander of a 1000 and sent him out to the darkness to fight against the power of the Philistines.
David had success in all his undertakings for the Lord was with him. And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him.
All Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out in the darkness and came in before them. Then Saul offered his elder daughter for a wife if he were valiant for Saul to continue fighting against Philistine's power.
David then said to Saul: "Who am I, and who are my kinsfolk, my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?" But at the time when Saul's daughter Merab, should have been given to David, she was given to A'driel the Meho'lathite for a wife.
But Saul's daughter Michal loved David; and the elemental spirits around Saul informed him and the thing pleased Saul because he thought: "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him, and that the evil hand of the Philistines may be against David." Saul desired from David no marriage present except a 100 foreskins of the Philistines. Saul's thoughts were entertained with the desire to make David fall by the evil hand of the Philistines, now under the wife in control by them.
The princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out Davis had more success than all the servants of Saul; so that David's name was so highly esteemed.
Then Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants that they should kill David. But Jonathan delighted so much in David. Jonathan told David that his father Saul wanted to kill him. He recommended him to take heed in himself in the mountain, in a secret place. And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul, his father, saying: "Let not the king sin against his servant David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you; for he took his life in his hand and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?" And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore: "As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death."
And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and made a great slaughter among them, so that they fled before him.
Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and Davis was playing the lyre. And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And Davis fled and escaped.
To understand hoe this evil spirit from the Lord works we read 1 Samuel 15 in which Samuel said to Saul: "The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore hearken to the Words of the Lord." Thus says the Lord of Hosts: "I will punish what Am'alek did to Israel in opposing them On The Way, when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and smite Am'alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." Why God is asking to do that? It is because the elemental entities were in them with no desire of living those bodies since they sold their souls to them. But Saul and his people spared Agag, their king and the best of their sheep and of the oxen and of the fat-lings, and the lambs, and all that was good to them, and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless to them they utterly destroyed.
Then the Word of the Lord came to Samuel and said: "I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel rose early to meet Saul, he was very angry. It was told among the spirit world that Saul came to Carmel and, behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him: "Blessed be you to the Lord; I have performed the commandment of the Lord." And Samuel said: What then is this bleating of the elemental spirits of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen walking in them which I hear?" Saul said: "They have brought them from the Amal'ekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God (at that point he did not say my Lord); and the rest we have utterly destroyed." Then Samuel said to Saul: "Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night." And Saul said to him: "Say on," And Samuel said: "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel?" The Lord anointed you king over all Israel. And the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amal'ekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' Why then did you not obey the Voice of the Lord?"Why did you swoop on the spoil, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord?"
And Saul said to Samuel: "I have obeyed the Voice of the Lord, I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Am'alek, and I have utterly destroyed the Amal'ekites. But the people (he does not sat 'I decided over it')took the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God (again he does not say 'my God') in Gilgal." And Samuel said, "Has the Lord a great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, rather than in obeying the Voice of the Lord?" To obey is better that sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king."
That is the reason why an evil spirit from the Lord struck Saul making him vulnerable to all the emotions of the flesh governed by those elemental entities.
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