… Ahithophel … put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died.… The last week, Sunday, or weekday of the year is a time of great spiritual opportunity. It is a time for taking inventory in shops and warehouses; it should also be a time for taking spiritual stock. It is a solemn time, the end of another twelve months. The books are closed, the figures added up and audited. It is as dramatic a time as the incident described in 2 Samuel 17. We might call it a drama
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