GO YE FORTH!

1 Samuel 14:13-28

¹³ And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and knees with his armorbearer after him; and they fell before Jonathan. And as he came after him, his armorbearer killed them. ¹⁴ That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armorbearer made was about twenty men within about half an acre of land.^[a]

¹⁵ And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so that it was a very great trembling. ¹⁶ Now the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and there was the multitude, melting away; and they went here and there. ¹⁷ Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Now call the roll and see who has gone from us.” And when they had called the roll, surprisingly, Jonathan and his armorbearer were not there. ¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark^[b] of God here” (for at that time the ark^[c] of God was with the children of Israel). ¹⁹ Now it happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the noise which was in the camp of the Philistines continued to increase; so Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.” ²⁰ Then Saul and all the people who were with him assembled, and they went to the battle; and indeed every man’s sword was against his neighbor, and there was very great confusion. ²¹ Moreover the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before that time, who went up with them into the camp from the surrounding country, they also joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. ²² Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden in the mountains of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, they also followed hard after them in the battle. ²³ So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven.

Saul’s Rash Oath

²⁴ And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food. ²⁵ Now all the people of the land came to a forest; and there was honey on the ground. ²⁶ And when the people had come into the woods, there was the honey, dripping; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. ²⁷ But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; therefore he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his countenance brightened. ²⁸ Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food this day.’” And the people were faint.

Go ye forth, the Lord has given your enemy into your hands.

He does not use numbers but counts on your faith.

As you step out to exercise your faith, your spiritual muscles gather strength and you begin to grow leading to MATURITY.

It is while at this that Jehovah will do what you never expected.

1 Samuel 14:15 ¹⁵ And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so that it was a very great trembling.

 God will send panic and shake the opposition’s ground, i.e. terrible panic that will cause your enemy to come asking for your help.

Be on the alert!

Remember it is important to stand with your testimony and the God whom you have believed.

It may cost your life, but this is no cause for alarm.

He covers his beloved to with wings just as the chicken does when she sees the hawk lingering up the sky.

Jonathan, Jonathan (Hebrew: יְהוֹנָתָן/יוֹנָתָן, Standard Yonatan / Yəhonatan Tiberian Yônāṯān / Yəhônāṯān) is a common masculine given name meaning "YHWH has given" in Hebrew.^[1][2] The first known Jonathan was a son of King Saul in the Hebrew Bible, a close friend of David.

Today the lord has a new name for you.

He has purposed to exalt you to high ground where he calls you by his name.

He says he has given; this is your new title.

If Jehovah himself is the one who has given, who will stop you from securing your destiny?

Threats will come

Scare crows will be thrown your way

Take courage, Jesus is lord!

The lord preserves those that are his beloved, those who are his own.

It doe not matter what the establishment requires done.

The lord God is your victory.

 He is mighty in battle and great in war.

The lord is a mighty warrior.

Today the lord shall rescue you.

He did so through the Israelites, Jonathan being the agent

And an able agent for that matter

Jonathan knew something people did not know about him

He knew what his name meant.

The lord today declares you are the Jonathan of this moment.

Jonathan understood his positioning and therefore went out and attacked the Philistine outposts.

Take heart sweet heart, he who is with you than he who is with them.

Go ye forth, the lord has spoken so.

Wait not for human signals.

It is not a matter of being impulsive and feeling intimidated.

This is the time to feel the deep palpitation of your spirit, an indication that the spiritual temperatures are already high.

Arise therefore and shine for the lord. For his glory has comes.

He is the glory of Israel and you are his child, called by his name.

To cap it, today you are called Jonathan, YHWH, THE lord has given.

Receive what he is given and at once put it into action

Jonathan understood so and this is what the lord expects of you now.

You are the Jonathan of your time and the time is now.

Brother, sister, mum, dad, do no sit on your laurels.

It will seam to the human eye as personal initiative that is time bound to fail

But wait until the lord rescues Israel, the body of Christ.

Financial situations that were reading negative will overflow,

Marital situation that are condemned not to work will flourish, so shall any social mal-adventure revert back to its element.

The lord declares “GO YE FORTH”.

You are bound for the lord’s rescue

Please do not look at what the king, master or even the land lord is saying

Because many have bound resourceful people not to work and thus procure productivity.

Do not allow yourself to encounter general distress.

You are a super power, dynamite waiting to explode!

But there is a cache to it.

Some activity and faithful for that matter will be required from of

Just raise your hand and pick the honey

Honey in the bible stands for:-

That honey denotes delight is because it is sweet, and everything sweet in the natural world corresponds to what is delightful and pleasant in the spiritual world. The reason why it is called its delight, that is, the delight of truth from good in the exterior natural, is that every truth and especially every truth of good has its own delight; but a delight from the affection of these, and from the derivative use.
[2] That honey is delight is evident also from other passages in the Word, as in Isaiah:--

A virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel (God with us). Butter and honey shall He eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good (Isa 7:14, 15);

speaking of the Lord; butter denotes the celestial; honey, +hat which is from the celestial.
[3] In the same:--

It shall come to pass for the multitude of milk that they shall yield, he shall eat butter; and butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land (Isa. 7:22);

speaking of the Lord's kingdom; milk denotes spiritual good; butter, celestial good; and honey, that which is from them, thus what is happy, pleasant, and delightful.
[4] In Ezekiel:--

Thus wast thou adorned with gold and silver; and thy garments were of fine linen and silk and broidered work. Thou didst eat fine flour and honey and oil; so thou becamest beautiful very exceedingly, and thou didst prosper even unto a kingdom. With fine flour and oil and honey I fed thee; but thou didst set it before them for an odor of rest (Ezek. 16:13, 19);

speaking of Jerusalem, by which is meant the spiritual church, the quality of which is described as it was With the ancients, and as it afterward became. Her being adorned with gold and silver denotes with celestial and spiritual good and truth; her garments of fine linen, silk, and broidered work denotes truths in the rational and in each natural; fine flour denotes the spiritual; honey, its pleasantness; and "oil,' its good. That such things as belong to heaven are signified by these particulars can be seen by anyone.

[5] In the same:--

Judah and the land of Israel were thy traders, in wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm (Ezek. 27:17);

speaking of Tyre, by which is signified the spiritual church such as it was in the beginning and such as it afterward became, but in respect to the knowledges of good and truth (AC 1201). Honey here also denotes the pleasantness and delight from the affections of knowing and learning celestial and spiritual goods and truths.

[6] In Moses:--

Thou makest him ride on the high places of the earth, and he eats the produce of the fields. He maketh him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flint of the rock (Deut. 32:13);

here also treating of the Ancient spiritual Church; to suck honey out of the rock denotes delight from truths of memory-knowledge.

[7] In David:--

I feed them with the fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock I sate them (Ps. 81:16);

to sate with honey out of the rock denotes to fill with delight from the truths of faith.

[8] In Deuteronomy:--

Jehovah bringeth me unto a good land, a land of rivers of water, of fountains and of deeps that go out from the valley, and from the mountain; a land of wheat and barley, and of vine and of fig and of pomegranate; a land of oil olive and of honey (Deut. 8:7, 8);

speaking of the land of Canaan; in the internal sense, of the Lord's kingdom in the heavens. A land of oil olive and of honey denotes spiritual good and its pleasantness.

[9] Hence also the land of Canaan was called A land flowing with milk and honey (Num. 13:27; 14:8; Deut. 26:9, 15; 27:3; Jer. 11:5; 32:22; Ezek. 20:6). In the internal sense of these passages by the land of Canaan is meant, as before said, the Lord's kingdom; flowing with milk denotes an abundance of celestial spiritual things; and with honey, an abundance of derivative happiness and delights.

[10] In David:--

The judgments of Jehovah are truth, righteous are they together; more to be desired are they than gold and much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the dropping of the honeycombs (Ps. 19:9, 10);

the judgments of Jehovah denote truth Divine; sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycombs denotes delights from good and pleasantnesses from truth. Again:--

Sweet are Thy words to my palate, sweeter than honey to my mouth (Ps. 119:103);

where the meaning is similar.

[11] The manna that Jacob's posterity had for bread in the wilderness is thus described in Moses:--

The manna was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like a cake kneaded with honey (Exod. 16:31);

as the manna signified the truth Divine that descends through heaven from the Lord, it consequently signified the Lord Himself as to the Divine Human, as He Himself teaches in (John 6:51, 58); for it is the Lord's Divine Human from which all truth Divine comes, yea, of which all truth Divine treats; and this being so, the manna is described in respect to delight and pleasantness by the taste, that it was like a cake kneaded with honey. The taste denotes the delight of good and the pleasantness of truth, (AC 3502),

[12] As John the Baptist represented the Lord as to the Word, which is the Divine truth on earth, in like manner as Elijah (AC 2762, 5247), he was therefore the Elijah who was to come before the Lord (Mal. 4:5; Matt. 17:10-12; Mark 9:11-13; Luke 1:17); wherefore his clothing and food were significative, of which we read in Matthew:--

John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loin; and his meat was locusts and wild honey (Matthew 3:4; Mark 1:6).

The clothing of camel's hair signified that the Word, such as is its literal sense as to truth (which sense is a clothing for the internal sense), is natural; for what is natural is signified by hair, and also by camels; and the meat being of locusts and wild honey signified the Word such as is its literal sense as to good; the delight of this is signified by wild honey.
[13] The delight of truth Divine in respect to the external sense is also described by honey in Ezekiel:--

He said unto me, Son of man, feed thy belly and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. And when I ate it, it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness (Ezek. 3:3).

And in John:--

The angel said unto me, Take the little book and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. So I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey; but when I had eaten it my belly was made bitter. Then he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again over many peoples and nations and tongues and kings (Rev. 10:9-11).

The roll in Ezekiel, and the little book in John, denote truth Divine. That in the external form this appears delightful, is signified by the flavor being sweet as honey; for truth Divine, like the Word, is delightful in the external form or in the literal sense because this admits of being unfolded by interpretations in everyone's favor. But not so the internal sense, which is therefore signified by the bitter taste; for this sense discloses man's interiors. The reason why the external sense is delightful, is as before said that the things in it can be unfolded favorably; for they are only general truths, and general truths are susceptible of this before they are qualified by particulars, and these by singulars. It is delightful also because it is natural, and what is spiritual conceals itself within. Moreover it must be delightful in order that man may receive it, that is, be introduced into it, and not be deterred at the very threshold.

[14] The honeycomb and broiled fish that the Lord ate with the disciples after His resurrection, also signified the external sense of the Word (the fish as to its truth and the honeycomb as to its pleasantness), in regard to which we read in Luke:--

Jesus said, Have ye here anything to eat? They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of a honeycomb, and He took them and did eat before them (Luke 24:41-43).

And because these things are signified, the Lord therefore said to them:--

These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me (Luke 24:44).

It appears as if such things were not signified, because their having a piece of broiled fish and a honeycomb seems as if fortuitous; nevertheless it was of providence, and not only this, but also all other, even the least, of the things that occur in the Word. As such things were signified, therefore the Lord said of the Word that in it were written the things concerning Himself. Yet the things written of the Lord in the literal sense of the Old Testament are few; but those in its internal sense are all so written, for from this is the holiness of the Word. This is what is meant by His saying that all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Him.

[15] From all this it may now be seen that by honey is signified the delight that is from good and truth, or from the affection of them, and that there is specifically signified external delight, thus the delight of the exterior natural. As this delight is of such a nature as to be from the world through the things of the senses, and thereby contains within it many things from the love of the world, the use of honey in the meat-offerings was therefore forbidden, as in Leviticus:--

No meat-offering which ye shall bring unto Jehovah shall be made with leaven; for there shall be no leaven, nor any honey, from what ye burn with fire to Jehovah (Lev. 2:11);

where honey denotes such external delight, which, because it contains in it what partakes of the love of the world, was also like leaven, and was on this account forbidden. 

See how Jonathan’s eyes brightened.
With it also came strength.
When you are so much glued to the prize of your calling chances are you will not hear let alone know some of the civilian decrees and declarations
Jonathan never knew about the curses by his father Saul.
As a child of God, the Jonathan of today no one should trouble threatening you with curses.
You are above and beyond such.

The good book declares, Mark 16:18New King James Version

¹⁸ they^[a] will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Because of the brightening of his face, Jonathan went ahead and started offering wise counsel:-

1.    My father has caused trouble for the country.

Words such as these can only come out the mouth of a honey eater.

This is your position, go on and shine as a good example.

Psalm 119:105 King James Version

¹⁰⁵ Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path

2.    Jonathan went on to explain how different he was from the rest:-

i)                  He was strong and energetic, resourceful thinking, full of wisdom, knowledge and enlightened as a result of his brightened eyes.

No wonder the way you see things is very different. When you open your mouth your words offer counsel and comfort. People desire to be close to you.

Secret, you are a honey eater.

Jonathan could see better than the rest and so you are able to see well.
He could see better what his father could not even know that it existed in the first place.
How I urge you in the name of Jesus, “GO YE FORTH”
May your neighbor get to know that you are no ordinary Christian!
Your name is YHWH, the lord gives, Glory to the Most High God!
Let your closet understand that now:-

1.    It is your time to break new grounds

2.    It is time to detach from the common, tried and tested

3.    It is time to explore new horizons

This does not just happen.
It requires the brightening of eyes.
Brightening of the eyes requires personal resolve, a stretching of the hand out to reach for the honey.
Time to read the word of God has to be set aside and not traded in.
Beloved listen to me and listen very good.
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Halleluyah to the lamb of God!
Eat honey!
Eat honey!
Eat honey!

Psalm 19:9-10New King James Version

⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold,Yea, than much fine gold;Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

The more you eat this honey, the word of God, the sweeter it becomes, the brighter your eyes become and the stronger your spiritual muscles you have.

No wonder the bible declares that we stretch forth…….

It demands that the fingers do the licking of the honey.

Turn over the pages of the holy book.

You do not fast in the enemy territory

Instead you dig deeper into the honey.

Praise King Jesus!

And the value of GOING FORTH cannot be underestimated.

Proverbs 24:13-14New King James Version

¹³ My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste; ¹⁴ So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul;
If you have found it, there is a prospect, And your hope will not be cut off.

Wisdom nourishes and brings health to the soul.

When Ezekiel tasted this word of God, it was as sweet as honey.

 Ezekiel 3:3 

³ And He said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you.” So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.

Therefore come and taste and see that the lord is good.

This is not too hard to do.

The bible says today if you hear this voice do not harden your hearts.

 Just come, come as you are though without a single plea

He stretches forth his arms to receive you.

Come to the master, eat the honey and see your face brightening up.

If you find honey like you have today take a great filling. The benefits far out weigh the disadvantages.

Proverbs 25:16

 Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need,
Lest you be filled with it and vomit.

Health Benefits of Honey:-

1. Prevent cancer and heart disease:
Honey contains flavonoids, antioxidants which help reduce the risk of some cancers and heart disease.

2. Reduce ulcers and other gastrointestinal disorders.
Recent research shows that honey treatment may help disorders such as ulcers and bacterial gastroenteritis. This may be related to the 3rd benefit…

3. Anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-fungal:
“All honey is antibacterial, because the bees add an enzyme that makes hydrogen peroxide,” said Peter Molan, director of the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

4. Increase athletic performance.
Ancient Olympic athletes would eat honey and dried figs to enhance their performance. This has now been verified with modern studies, showing that it is superior in maintaining glycogen levels and improving recovery time than other sweeteners.

5. Reduce cough and throat irritation:
Honey helps with coughs, particularly buckwheat honey. In a study of 110 children, a single dose of buckwheat honey was just as effective as a single dose of dextromethorphan in relieving nocturnal cough and allowing proper sleep.

As you decide to go you will reach this enviable conclusion and say just as Nehemiah said.

Nehemiah 6.16, “This (work) has been done by the help of our God.

 And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

The name of the lord be glorified.

Amen!