The Great Reversal
1 Samuel 2:1-10
1 Samuel 2:1-10
1 Hannah
prayed:
You make me strong
and happy, LORD.
You rescued me.
Now I can be glad
and laugh at my enemies.
2 No other god[a] is like you.
We’re safer with you
than on a high mountain.[b]
3 I can tell those proud people,
“Stop your boasting!
Nothing is hidden from the LORD,
and he judges what we do.”
1 Samuel 2:1-10
4 Our
LORD, you break
the bows of warriors,
but you give strength
to everyone who stumbles.
5 People who once
had plenty to eat
must now hire themselves out
for only a piece of bread.
But you give the hungry more
than enough to eat.
A woman did not have a child,
and you gave her seven,
but a woman who had many
was left with none.
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6 You
take away life,
and you give life.
You send people down
to the world of the dead
and bring them back again.
7 Our LORD, you are the one
who makes us rich or poor.
You put some in high positions
and bring disgrace on others.
8 You lift the poor and homeless
out of the garbage dump
and give them places of honor
in royal palaces.
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You set the world on foundations,
and they belong to you.
9 You protect your loyal people,
but everyone who is evil
will die in darkness.
We cannot win a victory
by our own strength.
10 Our LORD, those who attack you
will be broken in pieces
when you fight back
with thunder from heaven.
You will judge the whole earth
and give power and strength
to your chosen king.
Hannah’s Personal Reversal
There is a focus on her specific situation
God exalts the humble and humbles the
exalted
God will do something about our pain
Hannah’s people’s Reversal
King John
King Malcom
King Kevin
Queen Julia
King Tony
King Kevin
?
Duke of
Abbott
Queen Julia
(with Green
knights)
Hannah’s people’s Reversal
Israel was a complete mess
God lifts up Samuel and lowers Eli
Looks ahead to David’s deliverance
Hannah’s prophetic Reversal
Hannah foreshadows Mary
Luke 1:46-55
46 Mary
said:
With all my heart
I praise the Lord,
47 and I am glad
because of God my Savior.
48 He cares for me,
his humble servant.
From now on,
all people will say
God has blessed me.
Luke 1:46-55
49 God
All-Powerful has done
great things for me,
and his name is holy.
50 He always shows mercy
to everyone
who worships him.
51 The Lord has used
his powerful arm
to scatter those
who are proud.
52 He drags strong rulers
from their thrones
and puts humble people
in places of power.
Luke 1:46-55
53 God
gives the hungry
good things to eat,
and sends the rich away
with nothing.
54 He helps his servant Israel
and is always merciful
to his people.
55 The Lord made this promise
to our ancestors,
to Abraham and his family
forever!
Hannah’s prophetic Reversal
Hannah foreshadows Mary
Hannah’s song alludes to the resurrection
You can join the great reversal by trusting
Jesus as saviour, and listening to him as king
Living In light of Opposite Day
 Trust in and follow Jesus
We will be vindicated, others must be
warned
Grief is not the end
“Deem not the just by heaven forgot!
Though life its common gifts deny,
-Though with a crushed and bleeding heart,
and Spurned of man, he goes to die.
For God has marked each sorrowing day,
and numbered ever bitter tear,
And Heaven’s long years of bliss shall pay,
for all his children suffer here.”
- William Cullen Bryant