TYPOLOGY OF THE TWO KINGDOMS

KEY VERSE: And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only. (1 Kings 12:20)

TOPIC: Jeroboam would be king

  God created one kingdom – the Kingdom of David. It appeared that Saul had been king of God’s Kingdom, but Saul was a type of Lucifer whose identity was Prince of the Power of the Air (Ephes 2:2). Lucifer’s people were “children of disobedience” as Jeroboam’s line would be.

Compare Jeroboam to the Devil; Lucifer would be king:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: (Isa 14:12-13).

  Lucifer, with his pride, sees himself as King of the realm of God. Saul, the meek, didn’t visualize that until he became powerful. Saul was the epitome of most politicians today. Saul soon established himself, not only as king, but prophet as well, in that he did not wait on Samuel the prophet, but did Samuel’s function himself.

  David was a an after God’s own heart. Although he was a type of prodigal son, God welcome him back with open arms. David was chosen to establish God’s Kingdom on Earth, and Saul as David’s adversary. His kingdom was merely prince to David’s king!

David was a type of Christ in that he supplemented the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants. What is often forgotten is that King David was also a foreshadowing of Jesus, and the Kingdom of David, a type of Kingdom of God. Prophecy indicates that in the end, the earthly Kingdom of David will share the “space” of Israel with the Kingdom of God when Heaven comes down to its foundation. The Kingdom of David is perhaps Paradise on Earth (The Garden of Eden), and will be replaced by Paradise in Heaven.

  The Garden, Israel, and Heaven all have the same government:

Our prayer is to be: Thy (Jesus’s) kingdom come, Thy (God’s) will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Mat 6:10

And I (Jesus) will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Mat 16:19)

  In those passages are a clue. The translators saw the context quite well! “In earth” and “in heaven” says much! A novice will automatically misquote that as “on Earth” and “in Heaven” with capital letters!

  The point is that the two kingdoms are physical and spiritual, and they are the “heaven and earth” as in Genesis 1:1. In that passage, the Earth and the Heaven had not been created (in the beginning or first “step”.) When Jesus said “in earth” and “in heaven” he was indicating that there is one Kingdom with two substances – the visible and invisible, that scientists refer to as matter and perhaps antimatter. (My latest book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, explains that contention.) Therefore, no longer let “in earth” confuse the reader!

  Saul’s Kingdom represented God’s physical Kingdom and David’s, God’s Spiritual Kingdom. Jesus indicated that Christians should pray they be one Kingdom, and of course, prophecy indicates they will be when Jesus comes to reign. David’s reign was a foreshadowing of Jesus’ millennial reign, as Jesus was called “the son of David” (Mat 1: 1 and many other places.)

The Garden of Eden had been God’s Kingdom; thus, the Kingdom of David had been the rebuilding of God’s Garden Kingdom. The Garden of milk and honey was referred to as “the land of milk and honey,” with both representing prosperity or well-being.

  Israel is therefore a special place. It’s the axis between Heaven and Earth and heaven and earth. According to the premise in my book, the physical and spiritual are presently separated by a “firmament” - an abstract “dome” which science calls the “celestial sphere” that appears as a dome at any location on planet Earth. As prophesied in Revelation 21:2, “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down (descending) from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”

  Note that neither is “heaven” capitalized therein! Perhaps New Jerusalem will merely transcend the invisible and become visible. In other words, New Jerusalem co-exists with present Jerusalem, and it will be revealed, after the “harlot Babylon” is made clean by fire. Jerusalem, as with Jesus, will be transfigured from two realms into one!

  When David passed, Solomon built God’s House in Jerusalem. Therein sat God’s throne, made of ivory, having six steps and a footrest (2 Chron 9), as God had promised David a throne in the same great city, which would pass down through Solomon as God revealed to him: “Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel” (2 Chron 7:18).

  The ivory throne of the Temple has several meanings: (1) God’s Realm, (2) Creation, (3) judgment, (4) redemption, and (5) reward. Note that the throne for God was beneath two cherubim in the Temple who guarded it. That Throne represented the Kingdom of God in the Garden!

The Holy Cross of Jesus is represented by that throne in that the cross itself was a type of throne, and the footrest was the throne’s seventh step. Surely the six steps may have been the processes of crucifying Jesus, or his purpose: Step 1: his birth, Step 2: his ministry, Step 3: his persecution, Step 4: his agony, Step 5: his judgment, Step 6: his death and apparent separation, and Step 7: his entombment, wherein he rested. However, Step 8 is the continuation of Jesus’s reign and commenced with the resurrection, and the last step will be forever; what I call “day eight.”

  2 Chronicles 7:18 above relates the Davidic Covenant, and as the others it had stipulations:

But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. (2 Chron 7:19-20).

  Well, Solomon turned away and it became Jerohoam’s (his son’s) responsibility to fulfill the Davidic Covenant. (That covenant was merely a continuation of the Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, and Mosaic Covenants.)

  David could not build God’s House (the Temple) because although he was spiritual, he had been too physical as he had killed so many. The Covenant was through Israel (Jacob). “Israel” was the Kingdom of David and Solomon. Solomon could build God’s House but he wasn’t spiritual. Solomon was the antithesis of David.

  Once David and Solomon had died, so did The Kingdom of David. However, the spiritual Kingdom of God will never die! The Covenants will be fulfilled as John the Revelator saw. He saw into the invisible Realm of God, when in his time, the earthly kingdom and its temple and Messiah had died. Israel, to the Zionist Jews, seemed gone, and the Covenants torn-up. John envisioned the Davidic Covenant fulfilled with Jesus on the throne in Heaven and the heaven (invisible Kingdom).

  With Solomon’s death, the Covenants appeared to be as bleak as when Jesus died on the cross and Herod’s Temple destroyed. Only a few saw God’s Temple still extant in the souls of men! That was the case when Jeroboam rebelled and became king of Israel, leaving Jerohoam as king of only Judah.

“A man of God” called “the man of God” as well went to Israel in an attempt to keep the Kingdom of David intact (1 Kings 13). God directed him to not eat nor drink in Israel, or take the same path on which he had arrived. Along came a prophet from Bethel who dissuaded the man of God from his divinely assigned task. He used deception: that the man of God would not suffer any consequences. Of course, the man of God died because he was beguiled by the old false prophet who had turned to Jeroboam’s golden calf idol.

  “The man of God” represents Adam, and is as well written, “The Adam of God.” Of course, the false prophet represents the Serpent in the forbidden tree. The man of God died, but the “Serpent” did not. That’s the situation which exists with mankind and Satan up until Jesus was born! Both Adam (man) and us (mankind) were redeemed with God on His “Tree.”

  That’s the same with the united kingdom of Israel. It was not yet time for redemption and would still have to undergo trials until the False Prophet dies as well. That happens in the end!

Israel, under Jeroboam, represents the physical kingdom in the Great Tribulation. It has the false prophet, false gods, false leaders, an evil “king,” and a hellish government. I believe that is Muhammad, Allah, some narcissistic ayatollah, an Islamic prince with a world-wide caliphate, and Sharia Law. Their false Temple is already in place were Solomon’s was, namely the Dome of the Rock. That “house” is not God’s and  is not yet a temple, but a shrine with big plans for it in the future government of the Tribulation.

  The man of God came to save Israel from his own past experiences. He (his type) was deceived again by false doctrine: Should he eat from the Tree of the Doctrine of Christ with its twelve righteous fruits, or from the doctrine of sin with its forbidden fruits? Jeroboam, beguiled by the actions of the false prophet, would become king of Israel. Note that, that is what Lucifer desired! Jeroboam was a type of Lucifer.

  Solomon built a throne for God as mentioned earlier. Who would keep the throne? Judah had it for safe-keeping. That ivory throne represented God’s throne in Heaven as well as the Creation of the heaven and earth. It too was a celestial “ladder” like Jacob’s and also represented the Cross of Jesus.

Ivory was for Jesus’s purity, gold for his kingship, and the footrest for his governance of the earth itself. The seat was his throne and the footrest His footstool (Isa 66:1). The throne was for God resting from creating and keeping the world. His footstool was six steps down, according to the description, ending in the place His feet would rest. That represents earth, and the throne heaven.

The six steps represent the six “days” of creation before God rested on the last “step.” If Genesis 1:1 is examined, “in the beginning” means in the Hebrew, “rank one.” It was the primary “step” in the processes of creation, and it began with God on His throne, and terminated with God resting with His feet on the footstool of the earth.

  The six steps, as I described them in my book, represents the six specific processes leading to uniting of heaven and earth. Each step represents one step in the overall creation process. Of course, God on His throne was the beginning, and the “first fruit” in that He was before the beginning!

I use as evidence for my hypothesis that the ivory and gold throne which Solomon built for God represents the celestial axis and the Creation processes, one step at a time!

  Of course, God’s Plan could not be usurped by the Serpent, the false prophet of Israel, nor Jeroboam! Remembering that the Abrahamic Covenant was through Israel, the nation of Israel must be the one! It took time and tribulation, but in 1948, the nation of Israel came into existence again. That was a necessary and profound requirement. Jeroboam and that line would not sire the True King – Jesus. However, Jerohoam, Solomon’s son, and the seed of David would!

  As I write, those who know Jesus, know the outcome: Israel was where Jesus was born to keep us safe, and where he will come to save us at the rapture. The Kingdom of David on Earth will become the Kingdom in earth wherein things are done as they are in the invisible heaven!