What Is The Importance Of Ezer's Loyalty To God
Ezer, Chief of Gad was a man that not much was written about in the Hebrew Bible, but what was written is enough to fuel the imagination with tales of epic battles and adventure. Ezer is introduced to the readers of the Old Testament in 1 Chronicles 12 verses 8 and 9. This portion of Chronicles has to do with David’s Mighty Men, of which Ezer was a member. All of the Gadites that became member of David’s Mighty Men were described in the same way. Being brave men who were exceedingly adept at handling shield and spear, possessing the faces of lions and being as swift and agile as gazelles in the mountain. Possessing the face of a lion has been taken a few different ways however. This either means that they, the Gadites, were ferocious looking
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Loyalty to God will forever and always be the same. That is fleeing from the things of evil, the things that are not from God and running to God the father. This is everything from being capable to spot heretical teachings, such as the Health/Wealth teachings that are currently on the rise that motivate people to follow Christ for their own personal benefit. However, like Ezer, we need to do better than just be able to spot what is wrong, we need to be able to lead those around us and under our influence into the same conclusion that we have made. We should be able to make followers of Christ that love the Christ, love the word, and actively seek out how to better serve him in order to further the …show more content…
His skill, granted to him by God, in spear and shield granted him the ability to dispatch foes, his natural grace like that of an antelope allowed him to out maneuver them. Despite his attributes that made him a great warrior capable of defeating armies at a time, he still followed the true King of Israel. Through him, Jerusalem was made a city in the nation of Israel and all the history that happened at history can be thanked to Ezer in part. His life teaches us humility in our gifts and loyalty to God. Ezer really was a Mighty Man of both David and
Loyalty to God will forever and always be the same. That is fleeing from the things of evil, the things that are not from God and running to God the father. This is everything from being capable to spot heretical teachings, such as the Health/Wealth teachings that are currently on the rise that motivate people to follow Christ for their own personal benefit. However, like Ezer, we need to do better than just be able to spot what is wrong, we need to be able to lead those around us and under our influence into the same conclusion that we have made. We should be able to make followers of Christ that love the Christ, love the word, and actively seek out how to better serve him in order to further the …show more content…
His skill, granted to him by God, in spear and shield granted him the ability to dispatch foes, his natural grace like that of an antelope allowed him to out maneuver them. Despite his attributes that made him a great warrior capable of defeating armies at a time, he still followed the true King of Israel. Through him, Jerusalem was made a city in the nation of Israel and all the history that happened at history can be thanked to Ezer in part. His life teaches us humility in our gifts and loyalty to God. Ezer really was a Mighty Man of both David and