1Ki 1:41-53 “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.

[Study Aired July 1, 2021]

1Ki 1:41   And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

1Ki 1:42   And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings. 

1Ki 1:43   And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king. 

1Ki 1:44   And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule: 

1Ki 1:45   And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard. 

1Ki 1:46   And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. 

1Ki 1:47   And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed. 

1Ki 1:48   And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.

1Ki 1:49   And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way. 

1Ki 1:50   And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 

1Ki 1:51   And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword. 

1Ki 1:52   And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die. 

1Ki 1:53   So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house. 

King David’s utterance of these words in 1 Kings 1:48 : “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it” is a type and shadow of Christ’s own words to God’s elect in Revelation 20:6: “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”

Solomon’s reign as the son of king David typifies our blessed rule under Christ during the “thousand years” in which the stage will be set for the true conversion that will occur at the great white throne judgment. The riches of Solomon’s kingdom are described in part in 2 Chronicles 1:15 . These riches represent the word of God which will come forth from Jerusalem above, the church, from where every good and perfect gift comes (Jas 1:17 ) and “the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea” (Hab 2:14 ).

2Ch 1:15   And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

That being said, there will be no true conversion of heart, no Godly repentance, represented by silver, which is why “all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon” (2Ch 9:20 )

2Ch 9:20   And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Drinking from a vessel of gold without true repentance truly represents the heart of mankind during the thousand-year reign as the world will drink the word of God from God’s elect who are those vessels of gold which have been made fit for the Master’s use. God’s use for us during that period will be to baptize the world with His word, just as the Israelites of old were (2Ti 2:21 , 1Co 10:2-4).

2Ti 2:21   If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. 

1Co 10:2  And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 

1Co 10:3  And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 

1Co 10:4  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [no conversion but they did drink].

Drinking from those vessels of gold during Solomon’s reign and living in a time when “the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea” is how God seeks an occasion against all flesh. That word will not return void when the great white throne or lake of fire judgment begins, and every man in his appointed time must be baptized both with water and with fire (Isa 55:11 , Mat 3:11 , 1Jn 5:6, Joh 3:5, Rom 8:9, 1Jn 4:17 ).

Isa 55:11   So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 

Mat 3:11   I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 

1Jn 5:6  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

1Jn 4:17   Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. [1Pe 4:12 , Rom 6:3]

In the verses we’ll look at in this study, we will see how God will accomplish what He has purposed from the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4, Joh 15:16 ) being typified by those who prophesied not unto themselves but unto us, upon whom the end of the ages have come (1Pe 1:12 , 1Co 10:11 ). These prophecies should