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1 | Solomon's judgment of Adonijah and Joab | 1 Kin 2:13 | Tamara Brewington | 203958 | ||
Ok Carlos, here goes... From looking closely at the text we can see that Solomon sees himself as having fulfilled the prophecy of David to ascend to the throne made in II Samuel 7:12-16. Most commentators see this as Solomon assuming he is the only one who has his kingdom established by God, and as the one who gets the throne that will be established forever, because of I Kings 2:24. The parellel comes in I kings 2 when we see that the Lord was giving David a double prophecy. The proof is in two verses; 13 where it says that God will establish his throne forever - meaning Jesus the Messiah who will live and rule forever and 14 where it says that whoever God establishes on the throne if he sins God will chasten him. And since the we know that Jesus the Messiah can't sin, we know that David's son has to be the one in question on the throne. However, the text in I kings 2:13-34 is not a reference to a picture of the Messiah's judgment in the person and action of Solomon. There are elements in the history found in scripture of parallels that can be drawn between Jesus and Solomon though, but none of them involve judgment. The first parallel you already see, that Jesus was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David and that Solomon was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David. The next one is that Jesus was going to build the final tabernacle being His body crucified and resurrected as the place for all to worship and Solomon was going to build a tabernacle as a place for all to worship. The next one is that when Jesus went up the mountain and was transfigured the presence of God was there in a cloud as He was speaking to Moses and Elijah about raising the last tabernacle and when Solomon finished building the tabernacle the presence of God was present in a cloud that filled it up. The next one is that when Jesus judged matters of the people He used the wisdom of God and Solomon was given a wisdom from God which was unparalleled by any until Jesus came down. There are no parallels in the first commands of Solomon as it pertains to his reign as being the archetype of the new kingdom. Some would say there was because he apparently used a kind of wisdowm in executing a rival and Solomon's reign was later characterized by wisdom or because he destroyed his rival to the throne. But the wisdom he was later to receive from God goes beyond the sort of self preservation that is displayed in this passage and also does not point to either the specific judgment of the Messiah that if they don't receive His word they are doomed or the general judgments of the Messiah using wisdom to judge matters and it does not make contact with the Messiah eventually judging Satan, the Anti-Christ, or the False Prophet in Revelation. When you look for parallels, types, shadows of events and people in the Bible pay close attention to the circumstances because that will give the big clue as to if a text applies to the idea you might have. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
2 | Solomon's judgment of Adonijah and Joab | 1 Kin 2:13 | DocTrinsograce | 204041 | ||
Oh my, Tamara, you're only encouraging him! We'd derive as much instruction by speculating on Micah 8 or Romans 17! Here's a comment you may have read by Norman Geisler (on the Chicago Statement of Biblical Hermeneutics, Article VII) "The Affirmation here is directed at those who claim a 'double' or 'deeper' meaning to Scripture than that expressed by the authors. It stresses the unity and fixity of meaning as opposed to those who find multiple and pliable meanings. What a passage means is fixed by the author and is not subject to change by readers. This does not imply that further revelation on the subject cannot help one come to a fuller understanding, but simply that the meaning given in a text is not changed because additional truth is revealed subsequently." In your Bible School studies you will learn about logical fallacies. This question is a prime example of plurium interrogationum, commonly known as the "loaded question." We learn from example of Christ (Mark 11:28-33) to focus on the tacit presuppositions, rather than getting entangled in valueless speculation (Titus 3:9). In Him, Doc |
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3 | Solomon's judgment of Adonijah and Joab | 1 Kin 2:13 | Tamara Brewington | 204044 | ||
Doc you are pure gold! Thanks for the advice... I hear you loud and clear, where text says there is a type, there is a type, where the text says there is a shadow, there is a shadow, where the text draws a parallel, there is a parallel(like in Hebrews about Melchizedek and Jesus). Where there are silimarities those are legitimate similarities but if the various authors did not intend to draw that into a parallel don't make one... Got it Doc. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||