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Our Father’s heart is full of His Son, Jesus!  What He accomplished long ago on that hill called, “Mt. Calvary,” are spoken of over and over again, throughout the Bible.  This portion of scripture is no exception.  It contains beautiful pictures of Jesus and His finished work of redemption.

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Ephes Damim in Hebrew literally means “Boundary of the bloods (plural),” and Elah means “Fear.”  The Holy Spirit, our Master Storyteller, is painting pictures for us again!  He wants us to know that when we get into a “Thorny situation” with our backs against the wall, down in the “Valley of fear,” we have a Savior. We have Jesus, the Greater David!

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Notice that you are drawn, “DOWN,” into the valley of fear from where you were, which is seated in heavenly places next to Jesus.  How are you drawn down there?  By giving heed to the taunts and lies of the enemy–your Goliaths.  Remain at rest, seated next to Jesus, and you’ll find you cannot not be drawn down into the valley of fear.”

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Typologies.

Goliath is a typology of satan–our accuser.  It might interest you to know that he CANNOT cross the boundary of the blood (of Jesus).  His name in Hebrew is also very telling:  It means “Stripped, exile.”

This guy loved bronze!  He was wearing a helmet made of bronze, his spear was bronze, his Breastplate and all his armor were made of bronze, even his footwear was bronze.  Why?  Because he is a picture of the accusers of the brethren, like judge and jury.  Bronze in the Bible depicts “Judgment.” Well, he was one big picture of judgment from head to toe!

(For more on the meaning of bronze and some amazing revelations in both the Hebrew words and the letter themselves, please follow the link below:

https://emmausroadministries.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-bronze-serpent-נחשת-nachoshet-2/)

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Goliath was from the city of Gath which, in Hebrew, means “Winepress.”  It calls to mind the verse in Rev.19:15 it says that “Jesus Himself treads out the “winepress” of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God….Having stripped principalities and powers; He spoiled them.”

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That’s our Jesus, the GREATER DAVID, defeating our Goliath (the devil), and taking away our reproach.  Now, we are no longer strangers and exiles, subject to God’s wrath.  We are heirs of the promises of God as beloved sons and daughters!

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That’s what David did; he “Spoiled principalities and powers” by defeating them (Goliath and Co.) in the Name and power of the LORD of Hosts, making Goliath a “stripped exile,” carrying out judgment on him.

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Shadow And Substance.

At the end of the chapter, you’ll notice it says that he carried Goliath’s head all the way to Jerusalem.  It was buried outside the city walls in a place which, much later, came to be known as, “The place of the skull.”

The place where this giant skull was buried outside of the gates of Jerusalem and came to be known as “Gol Goliath.”  Gol means, “Heap or pile.”  Later on, it was shortened to “Golgotha,” what we know as “The place of the skull.

Some 4,000 years later Jesus, the GREATER David, our giant killer, The Savior of the entire world, would die on a cross, thoroughly routing the greatest of all enemies; the serpent.

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His cross would be erected directly over the place where Goliath’s head was buried.  Our Jesus, THE GREATER DAVID {BELOVED}, CRUSHED ONCE AND FOR ALL the he of the greater Goliath, i.e., the devil’s head, on that hill long ago known as:

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