Day: July 9, 2023

Sunday, July 9, 2023

“And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever” (2 Samuel 7:12,13 KJV).

Let us search the Scriptures to see how Solomon is a type of the antitype Jesus….

King David fathered numerous children, but the LORD chose a solitary son, Solomon, to rule after him (1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Chronicles 29:1). Still, this inconvenient fact did not deter one of Solomon’s half-brothers from scheming to presumptuously seize the throne… twice. For example, in 1 Kings chapter 1, older son Adonijah tried to rule as king while elderly David was in his final days of earthly life, but David was informed of the uprising and suppressed Adonijah by publicly endorsing Solomon as his replacement. For a time, Adonijah had his supporters who celebrated him as “monarch,” but he and his chief supporters were eventually removed from office—with some even executed for their treason (see 1 Kings 2:12-35)!

In a parallel situation nearly 10 centuries later, the Lord Jesus Christ is Father God’s chosen King for Israel (re-read Luke 1:31-33), but Christ’s enemies cleverly connived to take His life so they could usurp His throne and remain in control of the nation Israel. These were the religious leaders, whom He Himself, just a few days before they killed Him via crucifixion, exposed most graphically in the highly offensive Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen (see Matthew 21:33-46, Mark 12:1-12, and Luke 20:9-20). Those “scholars” seemed to be “in control,” and were praised for being such “godly men,” but they were pretenders who were willfully disobeying the Lord’s will in order to take over God’s nation. As Solomon’s foes who did not desire he reign over them ultimately lost their lives in the process, so the Lord Jesus Christ’s adversaries who refused Him will be slain when He comes back to reign (see Matthew 22:1-14; Luke 19:11-27).

Let us see other striking similarities between Solomon and Jesus….