0466. Absalom's Insurrection
Absalom’s Insurrection
"Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
"Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah" (Psa_3:1-2).
The 3d Psalm gives us, in picture, what the 2d Psalm gives us in prophecy. The 3d Psalm is a prayer of David as he fled from Absalom his son.
It is most interesting to study this Psalm from the viewpoint of history, but it is marvelously instructive to behold in this story of Absalom’s rebellion and David’s prayer, the illuminating type of the conflict between Christ and the antichrist.
The first two verses open with the words, "Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me." Absalom sought the kingdom. It was not his by right. The kingdom after David belonged to Solomon. Absalom sought to steal the hearts of the children of Israel; he said, "Oh that I were made judge in the land."
On this manner did Absalom: "It was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him." Thus "did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment." So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
After a time Absalom, under pretension of going to Hebron to worship, raised an insurrection against his father. The news was brought to David, and, with breaking heart he and those who were true to him, passed, in flight, over the brook Kedron, and camped for the night. It was during the night that the king prayed this prayer: "How are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God." All of this is a striking picture of the antichrist, and the methods he will employ against the rightful King of kings, and Lord of lords.
Another king ‘gainst Christ shall rise,
And seek to rob Him of the prize
Of David’s throne;
But not for long his reign shall be,
Before the coming Christ he’ll flee–
Be overthrown.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR