1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22 tells us how God let His People have the “Confusion Headaches” they requested over 3,000 years ago!
“All the elders of Israel came in a body to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, ‘Now that you are old, and your sons do not follow your example, appoint a king over us, as other nations have.'”
Samuel gave them This Prophecy: “The king who will rule you will take your sons and assign them to his chariots and horses… appoint from them commanders of groups… set them to do his plowing and harvesting… making his implements of war… use your daughters as ointment makers, cooks, and bakers… Kings will take the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive groves and give them to his officials… tax your crops and vineyards, and give the revenue to his eunuchs and his slaves. He will take your servants, your best oxen, and asses and use them to do his work… He will tithe your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves… When this takes place, you will complain against the king whom you have chosen, but on that day The LORD will not answer you.”
The “elders” thought they knew more than God and His Prophet! “Not so! There must be a king over us. We too must be like other nations, with a king to rule us and to lead us in warfare and fight our battles.”
God told Samuel: “Grant their request and appoint a king to rule them.”
Their “Confusion Headaches” began when God “granted their request”. No longer would they be responsible for saving themselves by dealing directly with God. They would rather be “slaves” than do that harder work!
After a thousand years of “Confusion Headaches”, The Prophesied Messiah came as God’s cure. He would let Psalm 89:16-19 come true for billions of Catholics: “Forever I will sing the goodness of The Lord for to The LORD belongs our shield, and to the holy one of Israel (not Judah alone!), our King.”
In the 1,500 years after Moses, “Twelve Tribes of Israel” quietly spread around the world. Overcrowding forced nearly sixty generations of God’s “invisible chosen people” to leave their small farms in Israel. Only Catholics understand the “new idea” that their Families became Tribes who grew into many Nations between Ireland, India, and beyond.
A thousand years later, Jesus fulfilled over 300 Messianic Prophecies by being “born of a Virgin of the House of David” (Isaiah 7:14), “in the tiny village of Bethlehem” (Micah 5:2). Then, God gave us His cure for “Confusion Headaches” by bringing His Word to earth in Human Form.
Many of the “Lost Tribes” were blessed to obey The Prophesied Messiah’s Command: “Love God and love your neighbors as yourself.”
Those who were most respectful of He Whom the Prophets predicted would gratefully obey His Church-Creating Decree to His First Catholic Pope: “And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
May all be blessed to love God and their neighbors enough to Be Catholic! May we be blessed to get, and encourage our neighbors to attain, the “keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”. Those “keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” include The Seven Catholic Sacraments!
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May all be blessed to have our labor / show True Love for God and neighbor.”
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