Thread by @GbengaWemimo

I often wonder where Amnon was the day the prophet Nathan came into the palace to rebuke David over the Uriah scandal.
Amnon would have been a young lad, the crown prince enjoying his young life and innocence.
Tamar would have been a young pretty princess basking in the ambiance

of her father's splendor
Absalom would have been the happy go lucky prince
Each of them growing at their own pace until the prophet uttered the words that altered the course of their lives.
The prophet said God told him to tell King David that "Out of your own household, i am

going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes, I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel"
It was a just verdict,

David had used his throne to oppress Uriah by sleeping with Uriah's wife and when the reality of his wickedness dawned on him he didn't bite the bullet and take responsibility. He killed an innocent and faithful man just so that he could take his wife for himself. Had Moses been

the one weiding the sword of justice, David would have been beheaded!
According to the Law of Moses, it was an eye for an eye and a life for a life.
David assumed he had gotten away with murder until God showed up through the Prophet Nathan
The prophet came on to David subtly by

way of a parable
David listened to the parable and pronounced judgment the way a fair King should, the prophet turned the judgment on David like a Nuclear warhead and declared that David will not escape the consequences of his actions. Those pronouncements had been the subject of

my ponderings for many days
I had been considering in my heart how the word of God controls human destiny effortlessly
As soon as those words were uttered they gained life and began to make room in the reality of all those who would play a part in its ultimate fulfillment
David

had a brother called Shimeah
Shimeah had a son whose name was Jonadab
Jonadab had a reputation for craftiness
Amnon became close cousins with Jonadab
The spirit of lust and obsession came upon Amon, the target of the spirit was Tamar
Out of the ladies in Israel, Amon lusted

after the sister of a prince whose mother was a princess from Geshur
Absalom's grandfather was the King of Geshur
Absalom had a kingdom to escape to in case of an emergency
It was a little bit too tidy
The pawns in the game didn't know they were not the ones in charge of their

actions
Amnon didn't see lusting after his half-sister for what it was -incest
Jonadab, Amnon's cousin didn't see far enough to desire to preserve Amnon's position because it is that position that gave him relevance
As crafty as he was, he advised Amnon on how he could lure Tamar

to his room and rape her
Tamar didn't suddenly fall ill on that fateful day
Just like Amnon, she was to bear the brunt of her father's evil deed
She fell for the evil plan devised by Jonadab and Amnon executed the plan to perfection
As soon as Amnon finished raping Tamar, the

evil spirit left him
Suddenly the glow and comeliness he saw in Tamar faded and he saw her for who she truly was
Worse than that, he saw his handiwork and what he saw didn't impress him
He told Tamar to GET OUT of his room
Tamar tried to reason with him
According to the law, if a

virgin of Israel was raped, she must tear her clothes and cry from the point where she was raped to her parent's house so that she will not be found guilty of willfully surrendering her virginity outside of wedlock
Tamar told Amnon, she would have to do this if thrown out and it

would mark him as a rapist (could affect his chance of becoming King, would make the whole nation see him as irresponsible etc)
Tamar offered a soft landing
"Take responsibility for your action by marrying me
It is not a taboo and our father would say YES!"
Amnon listened but he

didn't hear
Another evil spirit had taken him over
The Spirit of hate
He was the one that wronged her and he was the one that hated her
He was blind and deaf to reason
He threw Tamar out
Tamar tore her clothes and cried all the way home
Absalom heard what happened and at once

was prodded in the direction of vengeance
The King heard what happened and did nothing
This further strengthened the resolve of Absalom to take law into his own hands
Amnon did not realize by this time that he was living on borrowed time
Absalom had him in the scopes of his rifle

Absalom found a way to get close to Jonadab
(Remember Jonadab the crafty one?)
Absalom told Jonadab he wanted revenge
Jonadab told Amnon how to get it during the sharing season
(Was Jonadab, not Amnon's best friend?)
There was a spirit of error at work, and it was setting the

house of David against itself
The sharing season arrived
Absalom invited the King to his feast
The King declined
Absalom invited all the princes
The King gave his consent
Amnon didn't think twice about dining with his half-brother whose sister he raped
He got on a mule and went

to the feast
Jonadab, a member of the royal household who ought to be at the feast chose that day to stay with David at the palace
He and Absalom had planned how to break the news to King David in such a way that the king will know what was done and why
Jonadab was the one tasked

with explaining the deed to the King
Absalom killed Amnon
The other princes fled
There was commotion everywhere
The news David heard was that all the princes had been killed
David was about to react
Jonadab immediately started doing damage control (2 Samuel 13:32)
He explained to

David (without leaving the palace) that it was only Absalom that was killed and he stated the reason as vengeance for the rape of Tamar.
The King ought to act at this point but the Word of the prophet was still at work
David was powerless to act because the word had not been

fulfilled.
After some years, Absalom struck a deal with Joab and using a woman as an emissary, Joab was able to convince David to allow Absalom to come back to Israel (Samuel 14
Some years later, Absalom plotted a coup and took the throne of David
This time another wise man named

Ahitophel told him to pitch a tent on the rooftop and sleep with King David's concubines so that the nation of Israel will know for sure that he had burnt the bridge between himself and his father
Absalom did it and by so doing fulfilled to the letter the words of prophet Nathan.

PS: The more I meditated on the story above, the more I realized that the word of one prophet was so potent that practically everybody around David's throne was affected by it
The word altered reality changed perceptions, informed decisions, plotted, schemed, and manipulated

everybody until it came to pass
Prophet Nathan was not a believer, he didn't know the Holy Spirit the way we do, he wasn't a joint heir with Christ. He wasn't a partaker of the divine nature
If his words could be that powerful
Guess what your word can do when spoken by the Spirit