David:
And he (Samuel) sent, and brought him (David) in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint
him: for this is he.”
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So, Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah, but the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. (1 Sam 16:12-14)
The Spirit of the Lord came upon David as Saul gave up the
Spirit. (That should be enough to discount eternal security.)
The “liquid” that Samuel with which David was anointed was “semen”
in the Hebrew. Before David’s anointing is examined consider the “oil” by
examining the Hebrew translated oil.
שֶׁמֶן shin
– men – vav
The formal shin has its “tittles” as the symbol below reveals:
The pronunciation of shin is genetically important.
God divided the Ephraimites because they could not say the word shibboleth;
however, an Ephraimite would say sibboleth, and thus be exposed. (Jud
12:6).
Therefore, the letter shin does fit the idea of separation
and genetically so.
The anointing “oil” of David may have been olive or some
other oil, but it was the medium to separate David from his brothers to distinguish
him as belonging to God. That Jesus was the “son of David” was pre-ordained when
David was anointed. He would be the progenitor of David, not Saul, nor any
other at that time.
The crowns on the left leg points toward kingship, and the
anointing oil would do the same.
So, the shin represents God choosing David as a peculiar
person in the manner of Abram long before and of Moses and the man, Israel, more
recently: “For the Lord has chosen Jacob (renamed Israel) unto Himself, and
Israel for His peculiar treasure” (Psalm 13:4). God had done the same with Abram,
renaming him “Abraham” as a new person.
Shin is the thread throughout the Bible, and it would
be symbolized by oil rather than rubbing semen on David. It, however,
represented the very “semen” or “living waters” of God that covered David like
the garment of Adam from Genesis 3:17. The oil would be “the shield of
faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked”
(Ephes 6:16).
The anointing oil, therefore, points toward David as another
in a series of “Adam’s” wherein God separated the so-called “good grain” from
the bad.
Not by coincidence, David bought the threshing floor of Araunah
where the temple would be built to be the House (Bet) of God until Jesus
would be the “House” that God built for Himself.
From the loins of David is Jesus the “son of David.” Jesus
was preplanned when David was anointed, and David passed along his special
genetics to Jesus through Mary. The anointing oil passed through each
generation until Jesus received it in His maternal genetics.
Now for the meaning of the name, David, still “David” in the Hebrew and pronounced daw-veed'. In the Hebrew aleph-bet it looks like this:
דָּוִד Left
to right the Hebrew letters are dalet – vav – dalet
David’s Hebrew spelling is also a palindrome (meaning “running
back”) since it is spelled the same both forwards and backwards. Ironically,
DNA has within it a palindrome chain; GAATTC is a palindrome of CTTAAG,
indicating, perhaps, that the genetics of David were indeed chosen and
peculiar.
David’s palindrome would have taken his bloodline back to Adam
who had a dalet in the midst of his name.
The dalet could have pointed back to the “door” to
the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24), especially since it ended back with the second dalet
in the Book of Revelation.
Scripture points to Jesus as the “door” back to the Tree of Life,
and David cracked that door just a bit.
Dalet points toward a tent door. A tent was the abode
of one family all of the same progenitor. The tent is a house. David was to become
the House of David” genetically, and Jesus of that same house. “House” is used
in genetics to specify royal families, so Jesus was indeed the “son of David,”
because his maternal genes, as Matthew 1:1 says; He was of both Abraham
and David.
The letter vav has great significance as well. The
pictograph of vav is a tent peg.
The word vav is used in Exodus to refer to the hooks
of the tabernacle court. At the crucifixion of Jesus, “The veil of the temple
was rent in twain from the top to the bottom” (Mark 15:38). The veil would have
hung from hooks, or vav’s in the Hebrew.
As the “son of David” with a vav, the Dynamic of
Jesus was the vav. The death of Jesus pulled down the curtain of the
tabernacle and replaced it so that all could go in, not just the pure chief
priest.
The anointing of David surely pointed to the death of Jesus
when it was finished (John 19:30). The second dalet in David was
completed; the case closed, and the significance of David’s line ended.
No longer would Jesus as the “son of Abraham” and the “son
of David” have any significance for with Jesus all could go into the “Temple”— unto
Himself.
Jesus was meant to be the House (Bet) of God all along.
God never needed any house built for Him because He planned Jesus as the “House
of God” to genetically make new creatures in Christ (“born again;” John 3:7).
Jesus was of the genes of the LORD GOD, and David was just a
“flap” in a temporary tent of meeting until a real House was built for God.
Names means things, and David’s name was respected all
along. The Jews knew that the Messiah was in the midst of David’s tent and that
David was the door for the tent to be replaced by a future genetic House.
No longer are endless genealogies
of any importance: “Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions,
and strivings about the Law; for they are unprofitable and vain” (Tit 3:9). Jesus
was the son of David, and that line terminated with Jesus who had no biological
children but billions, as many as the sands of the seas, that are his adopted children
just as He promised Abraham, the “father” of David.
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