To quote the article: "As to why God was angry at David, in those times, a man only had the right to count or number what belonged to him. Israel did not belong to David; Israel belonged to God...."
Somehow have been equating the problem of companies and the government data-mining us with the sin of King David in numbering his people and soldiers...
Would be interested in your thoughts.
This would have been a sin of pride on King David’s part, a statement before God that these people were David’s. The devil wanted David to do it so he would sin. God permitted the devil’s desire to tempt David to show him where he needed to repent.
Does it carry over to representative republics such as the USA. I would say no it does not carry over directly for it depends on motive.
When the time comes that all of the U S belongs again to God, then we’d all better mind our ps and qs.
The USs NOT Israel...We are not led by David....
Jesus fulfilled the Law. Live by grace
The Census wasn’t the problem. It is what he was trying to do with it, shoring up his support through favouritism.
Bkmk
Yet did not one of the first five books of the Bible, Numbers,did it not start with a census?
In articles like that, I wish the author would not go into which translations are correct and which are not. Use the King James and the the manuscripts used to translate that version of the Bible. They are correct and inspired, not any of the others, and then there will be no doubt as to who, in this case, moved David to take the census.
I always read it to believe that David was shifting his trust away from God and to his own military might — which was quantified by the number of fighting age men in his nation. Almost every other occurrence of a census in the Old Testament was about figuring out how many men you had on hand to decide if you should go to battle.