Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.” 2 Samuel 21:17

It is strange to know that even when we grow old the Enemy will still attack us, when one becomes a senior citizen in faith or in age one does not receive a discount on ‘enemy attacks’. We seem to think that only the youth are at risk because they have so much to lose (and they dress weird). Thus his focus should be on them, but as the number of candles increases on our birthday cakes his attempts at our faith don’t slow down. A young David faced the giant Goliath, while an older David now faces four giants.

The Philistines rise again to challenge Israel, in war David now faces four giants who attack in full force. The giant champion has his eyes on David. Before David was king he was a great captain, leading countless campaigns always in victory. Songs were made about him. His fame only grew from once being the boy who killed Goliath to being one of the mightiest men of war Israel ever saw. Today we find an old David, an old King still going on to the battle field. The giant by the name Ishbi-benob learns of David’s frail state and focuses on slaying him. Abishai comes to David’s aid and the giant is put to death. The men of Israel plead for David not to go into battle anymore, that his light not be erased. Israel goes on to defeat the next tree giants. One of them being Goliath’s brother.

Not being nit-picky, but I no longer believe this. I used to say that all positions have difficulties, but I can't say that about Preterism. The difficulties arose from false assumptions I had, incorrect presuppositions.