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King David knew that God loved him, even after he had sinned gravely—with Bathsheba and then by taking a census of the people against God’s will. God still loved him and forgave him, promising to build David a house—a house of descendants—who would rule his people forever (2 Sam. 7).   First in that line would be Solomon.   Solomon married Naamah when he became king. Their courtship and marriage are eloquently described in Psalm 45 and again in the So …

Having finished a full draft of this work, I began seeing other themes surfacing in the Book of Revelation—elements of war and weapon imagery, especially between the angelic armies and Satan’s. Then I looked through the Psalms and saw the same. Certainly one expects war elements in the Old Testament, as God’s people struggle to free themselves of pagan peoples who conquer and enslave them when they sin and disobey the Law. But what I was not expecting was to see worship associ …