2 Samuel 17:1-14
Hushai had been sent back by David to Jerusalem in order to overthrow the advice given to Absalom by Ahithophel. And God, in answer to the king’s prayer (2 Samuel 15:31), intervenes to make this strategy successful. It would seem that He could no longer in this day and age give His blessing to similar conduct, for the coming of the Lord Jesus has opened up for us an entirely new dimension of truth and righteousness according to God.
Hushai’s counsel allowed David to be informed in time, to withdraw across the river and to prepare his defence.
We have not as yet noticed that all these events have a prophetic significance. They speak to us of a time yet to be, when a certain number of faithful men in Israel, a "remnant", will be persecuted and forced to flee, pursued by the enemies of Christ. These latter, the king and the false prophet (or Antichrist), prefigured by Absalom and his counsellor Ahithophel, will make war on the poor remnant whose distress the Psalms permit us to understand. But after a persecution of short duration, the two accomplices will come to a terrible and sudden end: the king (called the "Beast") and the false prophet will be the first men to be thrown alive into the lake of fire, which is the second death (Revelation 19:20).