First Kings Chapter 1 and the Presidential Election

 

I believe that there is absolutely nothing that God cannot do.  Some people might argue “but God cannot sin.”  Whether that argument is a truism or not is a matter of debate over which, doubtlessly piles of books have been written and would take me down a rabbit trail which is irrelevant to this essay.

Whether it’s my own sin, or simply the way God designed me, I prefer to get all the meat and potatoes that I need directly from the Word of God rather than hearing it second hand from an expositor.  Likewise, I believe in the Gifts of the Spirit but shy away from Charismatic environments because I tend to believe that much of what goes on there is culturally driven and inauthentic.  Hence, if you know me, you’ll not see me engaging in ecstatic utterances and attending non-charismatic churches.  That said, I still hold that there is absolutely nothing that God cannot do and that includes letting a man (or woman) speak in tongues if He wants him or her to do so.

Hence, I spend little if any time watching Christian videos or listening to Christian preaching other than what I might hear in the ekklessia (I say ekklessia because the word “church”, for me, is a source of culture shock even after almost 50 years of walking with the Lord) that I attend.

I regard it, therefore, as somewhat miraculous that a friend directed me to a video from Sid Roth, a fellow Jewish believer in Jesus, who has a TV show called “It’s Supernatural”, and I watched it almost all the way through.  Sid had on, as his guest, a man by the name of Chris Reed who claims (and I tend to believe him) that he had a dream which, to make a long story short, directed all eyes to Philadelphia as the place where the entire election process would culminate.  From there, Mr. Reed said that God had directed him to study what Y’shua had said to the Church at Philadelphia which was symbolic of the Ekklessia in the United States.  From there, Chris was directed to 1 Kings 1 which particularly caught my attention and which I’d like to share with you because of its immense contemporary relevance and, because, no doubt, of the divine “coincidence”, that I had just taught on it last week.

1 Kings 1 gives the account of a man by the name of Adoniyahu (Adonijah for those who speak “church”).  Because of the previous deaths of two of his siblings, he was next in line to rule as king of Israel in place of his father, King David, who was approaching death.  Adonijah held a great feast and invited a whole bunch of the citizens of Israel to attend.  Among those present were Joab (David’s former General) and Abiathar who was a Kohen (a “priest” but no longer the high priest).

At this feast, with great pomp and circumstance, Adonijah claimed the throne and declared himself king.

But I rhetorically ask “Who has the authority to declare anyone king”?  In 1 Kings 1, the answer to that question is “David”.  Contrary to the whims of Adonijah, David declared his younger brother, Solomon to be the next king.

David is depicted as a type or image of the Messiah.  Scripture tells us that the lineage of the Messiah was to come through David and mention of David, by the prophets, is often seen as a synonym for the Messiah.

Hence, I ask, if David was the one with the authority to declare who was to be the king and who was not, who is it who has the authority to declare who is to be the President of the United States, or not?  THE MESSIAH!

Like Adonijah, Joe Biden has prematurely declared himself to be the President.  After 47 years in office, certainly many people feel that he was the one most qualified and deserving of that position.  Furthermore, he apparently had won all the electoral college votes he needed.  Unlike Adonijah, he didn’t have Joab, the former general, or Abiathar, the Priest, to attest to his kingship but he did have the mainstream media calling him “President Elect” before any of the votes were certified, making him most certainly not the “President Elect” as of yet, or if ever.

So, in the middle of a great football game between Notre Dame and Clemson, he interrupts the game, gets on national TV, declares himself President and expresses the desire to “bring everyone together.”  This unity that he proposes is a near impossibility once one gets down to the nitty gritty of specific issues, but it does make a good rhetorical platitude and certainly sounds like a relief after 4 years of bickering between Mr. Trump and the Mainstream Media.  Such bickering would not occur under a Biden Presidency because he and the media are likely to be engaged in one wonderful kum-ba-ya love-fest.   Mr. Biden even had a light show with his name “BIDEN” emblazoned for all to see in what was an apparent attempt to mimic the fireworks display at the last day and climax of the Republican National Convention.

But, again, who is it who appoints the President?  Even as David appointed Solomon, it is the Messiah who appoints the President!  The Messiah is the one who controls Providence and the course of human events.

I will not go out on a limb and make predictions and emphatically say that once all the votes are counted and the dust has settled, Mr. Trump will retain the office of President, but this present course of events that we see today simply has too much of a similarity between the account of 1 Kings 1 to just let it pass unnoticed.

As one reads on into the account of Solomon taking control of the government, very bad things happen to Adonijah and those who backed his illegitimate claim to the throne of Israel.

Maybe that’s why so many people are fighting so hard to defend a man who just might not be the rightful “heir of the throne” of President.