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Announcements Forums God — July 4th, 2021 material rock – Spiritual Rock

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    David didn’t have a personal sense of victory. He inquired of God as to what was the wisest way to proceed. He knew that it was not his own strength or wisdom that won the battle. He gave God all the glory.
    MATERIAL ROCK: His faith was not in his material weapons, even though his sling and smooth rock-stones killed the Goliath threat.
    Online research: a good slinger hurled a stone as far and accurately as a good archer. Slingers are known to hurl their projectiles even farther, as much as 440 yards (402 meters) (a quarter of a mile / 0.40 km).
    Experiments demonstrate that missiles leave a sling in excess of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h).
    One Roman writer noted that opponents in leather armor were in far greater danger from sling missiles than arrows. Even if the stone did not penetrate the armor, it was capable of inflicting a fatal internal injury.
    Unarmored bodies were easily penetrated by sling stones
    SPIRITUAL ROCK: David’s sense of substance was not material. His sense of weapon/help was spiritual. His spiritual Rock was God – seen as fortress, deliverer, shield, high tower, refuge, saviour.

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