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Tag: 2 Samuel 18:5-9 and 15 and 31-33

Imitating God in Politics? The Politics of Scripture for Sun., Aug. 12 (Proper 14)

Samuel speaks of God as working in and through the events to deliver “ruin on Absalom.” This is not simply God with us. It is God against us–whenever we treat our “kingdom” as if it was ours and ours alone. Both David and Absalom acted as if their people, the Kingdom of Israel, were their own plaything.