Positivity Successor - Episode 256 - Positivity Successor (1 SAMUEL 6-7, 7-8)

Episode Date: March 8, 2026

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Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity success. Scheduled from Monday through Sunday, including holidays, every season, every year, according to leap year. Thanks for tuning to a light-changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to positivity success of episode 256. To continue on with the Bible, let's get into it. The ark return to Israel. 6. When the Ark of the Lord had been in Philistine territory seven months, the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, What shall we do with the Ark of the Lord?

Tell us how we should send it back to its place. They answered, If you return the Ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means send a guilt. offering to him, then you will be healed and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you. The Philistines asked, what guilt offering should we send him? They replied, five gold tumors and five gold rats.

According to the number of Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers, make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and pay honor to Israel's God. Perhaps we will lift his hand from you and your gods in your land. Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When he treated them harshly, did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way? Now then, get a new cart ready, but two cows that have cabed and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their cabs away and pen them up. Take the Ark of the Lord and put it on the cart and in a chest beside it.

Put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory toward Beth Shemesh, then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know what that it was not his hand that struck us, and that it happened to us by chance. So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

They placed the Ark of the Lord on the cart, and along with it the chest containing the gold rats in the model of the tumors. Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shamish, keeping on the road and lowing all the way. They did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh. Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley,

and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight. The cart came to the field, of Joshua of Beth Shamesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord. The Levites took down the ark of the Lord together with the chest containing the gold objects and placed them on the large rock.

On that day, the people of Beth Shemesh, offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Echron. These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the Lord, one for each four, Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Akron. And the number of gold of the gold rats, was according to the number of Philistine towns, belonging to the five rulers,

the fortified towns with their country, villages, the large rock on which they set the Ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shamesh. But God struck down some of the men of Beth Shemesh, putting 70 of them to death, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow. The Lord had doubted them.

And the men of Beth Shamesh asked, Who can stand in the presence of the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here? Then they sent messengers to the people of Kariath, Jura, saying, The Philistines have returned the Ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to your place. Seven.

So the men of Kariath, Jerome, came and took up the Ark of the Lord. They took it to Abedadab's house on the hill, and incarcerated Elazar, his son, to guard the Ark of the Lord. Samuel subdues the Philistines at Mizpah. It was a long time, 20 years and all, that the ark remained at Kariath Jiru, and all the people of Israel mourned and sought after the Lord. And Samuel said to the whole house of Israel, if you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Astoriths and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only.

he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines so that Israelites put away their bows and Astoraths and served the God, the Lord only. Then Samuel said, Assemble all Israel at Mispah, and I will intercede with the Lord for you. When they had assembled at MISPA, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day, fasted and there they confessed. We have sinned against the Lord and Samuel was leader of Israel at Mizpah. When the Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Mespa, the rulers of the Philistines came up to attack them and 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. Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it up as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on Israel's behalf, and the Lord answered him. While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day, the Lord thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites. The men of Israel rushed out of MISPA and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Carr. Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mispat and Shen.

He named it Ebenezer, saying, Thus far has the Lord helped us. So the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israelite territory again. Throughout Samuel's lifetime, the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines. The towns from Akron to Gath that the Philistines had captured from Israel were restored to her, and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the power of the Philistines, and there was peace between Israel and the Amarites. Samuel continued as judge over Israel all the days of his life.

From year to year, he went on. the circuit from Bethel to Gilgau to Misbah judging Israel in all those places. But he always went back to Ram Ramah, where his home was. And there also he judged Israel, and he built an altar there to the Lord. That's where we're going to stop. We'll pick back up with Israel, asked for King 8. Did you know how did the Israelites defeat the Philistines 714? The Israelites were worshipping false gods.

Samuel told them to worship only the true God. When the Israelites worshipped only God, he gave them victory at MISPA. As long as Samuel lived and as long as Israel worshipped, God, the people were safe from the Philistines. Thanks for tuning to an interesting ballade. Marrard to look back at the reflection of ourselves in the mirror. It's all the beautiful and handsome people out there because you're a work in progress and we'll get to

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