I believe the wrong title was given to Jeff's post.I agree with most of what Jeff said, that Saul was not a type of antichrist, in fact he was a type of the church under a pentecostal anointing, but was never brought to the anointing of Tabernacles. Pentecost is a feast with leavened bread, and leaven represents sin. We are to have the leaven "baked out" of us through the fires of affliction, which can be those trials in a believer's life that cause one to be conformed to the Lord's will.I disagree with a few things Jeff said, but it is easy to understand his confusion, as the names of some of David's wives are similar. Absalom was not David's son by Michal. Actually Saul had promised his other daughter, Merab, as a wife to David, but then changed his mind and gave her to another. MIchal, Saul's daughter, loved David, but she scorned him for dancing with joy before the Lord because the Ark was being moved to Jerusalem. She did not understand his motive, but despised him in her heart. The Bible does not tell us that David was completely naked, but 2 Samuel 6:14-16 say this:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.An ephod is a priestly garment. The Bible gives us a description of the ephod in Exodus 28. Verses 6-7 say:And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.This garment was not just a belt, that would have been the girdle. The ephod was worn only by the high priest, and on the day of Atonement the priest wore garments of white linen, not the golden garments.
Wikipedia gives a good description of the priestly garments here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen_Gadol
Donna Danna has given us links to the recreated priestly garments that are being made in Jerusalem today:
http://www.templeinstitute.org/beged/priestly_garments.htm
Michal did not ever have children as a consequence of despising her husband. 2 Samuel 6: 20-23:
20Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
21And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
22And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
23Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
We are told in 1 Chron 3: 1-4 that David had six sons born to him in Hebron, and other sons were born to him in Jerusalem:
1Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:
2The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:
3The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
4These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.