Gleanings I Kings 5
GLEANINGS (March 1989)
1 KINGS 5:11
Apparent contradiction with 2 Chronicles 2:10. (Lange misquotes this for 4:31.)
1 KINGS 5:9
The logs were BAPTISTS. They were immersed before they got into the Temple!
1 KINGS 5:12
But this alliance with the people of Tyre and Sidon is reaped later when Ahab comes to power and marries into the culture.
1 KINGS 5:16
The number is 36,000 in 2 Chronicles 2:2 (supposed contradiction).
1 KINGS 5:18
Hence “FREE MASONS.” They were “tax exempt” for building cathedrals back in the Dark Ages (1200-1500 A.D.). Hiram is the great joker in the Masonic lodges. In the Bible he is about as important as Shaashgaz (Esther 2).
1 KINGS 6:1
This would be April-May. The verse is a classic “contradiction,” as the total number of years from the Exodus is well over five hundred. If you add 111 years of captivity which are listed in the book of Judges, and then add the forty years wilderness wanderings, you get 654 years from the Exodus. If the Exodus was in 1491 B.C., this would make Solomon’s temple initiated in 837 B.C., 150-200 years off the date given. If the Exodus is placed at 1654 B.C., the Temple was started in 1000 B.C. Bullinger, Anderson, Larkin, Rimmer, and Lange ALL disagree on the chronology.
1 KINGS 6:18
The word “KNOPS” means a “colocynth.” The best meaning is “KNOBS.” (Note the Germanic p converted to b and vice versa.)
1 KINGS 6:22
In order to do this the Illinois Society of Architects (back in 1920) figured a cost of $87 billion, or about $240 billion right now. The vessels of gold, according to Josephus, were an additional $1,876,000,000. If the number seems staggering, remember that it could not get America “out of hock” with the “Federal” Reserve Bank if all the cash was “on the valve head.” AMERICA is $3 trillion “in the hole”: MORE THAN FIVE TIMES THAT AMOUNT.
1 KINGS 6:30
Observe that they walked on GOLD: in the first Tabernacle they walked on DUST. It is the difference between the earth NOW and New Jerusalem LATER.
1 KINGS 6:32-35
Notice the VEIL is covering “the tree of life”–the olive tree.
1 KINGS 7:1-3
Solomon builds three houses: his own, the Lord’s, and “THE HOUSE OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON.” A comparison of the Temple with the Tabernacle shows lengths: 40 by 80 to replace 20 by 40; widths: 20 by 40 to replace 10 by 20; heights: 15 by 30 to replace 10 by 20.
1 KINGS 8:10
No pillar of fire “by night,” for the millennium is the “EIGHTH DAY” (2 Peter 3:8) and has no night to follow it; it is followed by ETERNAL DAY. This explains why the SEVENTH DAY has no “evening” (Gen. 2:1-3). The great truth is again carefully concealed from the staff and faculty of the twenty largest “fundamental” and “conservative” schools in America.
1 KINGS 8:12
See Exodus 19:16 and 20:21 (cf. Ps. 18:11 and 2 Sam. 22:12).
1 KINGS 8:22
He is STANDING when he begins, but he is KNEELING when he FINISHES: see 2 Chronicles 6:12 and then verse 54 in this context.
1 KINGS 8:22-54
Observe the peculiar camouflage of the famous “Lord’s Prayer” of Matthew 6, which is actually the “Disciples’ Prayer.”
Our Father (v. 23) which art in heaven (vv. 23,30), Hallowed be thy name (vv. 31, 33). Thy kingdom come (v. 33). Thy will be done (v. 34) in earth, as it is in heaven (vv. 34, 36, 37). Give us this day our daily bread (v. 37). And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors (v. 39)… For thine is the kingdom (v. 42), and the power (vv. 44, 45), and the glory (vv. 50, 51), for ever (v. 60).”
1 KINGS 7:16
Note an additional two pillars in 2 Chronicles 4:12 which do not have the same number of pomegranates in the chain wreath (v. 20–200 in rows; 2 Chron. 4:12–100 in rows; 2 Chron. 4–400 in rows. BUT THERE IS A WHOLE PORCH OF PILLARS, see v. 6! This should be remembered when the dead orthodox apostates try to dig out the contradictions found in Jer. 52:21-22; 2 Chron. 4:12; and 2 Kings 25:17. The AV is right, as usual, and the scholars are wrong; par for the course.)
1 KINGS 7:23
A supposed contradiction with 2 Chronicles 4:3. Note that it is details like this that cause the faculties at Bob Jones, Tennessee Temple, Springfield, Dallas, Denver, etc., to say that the AV has ERRORS, but no “SERIOUS ERRORS.” WHAT THEY MEAN IS, THEY ARE STUPID.
1 KINGS 7:26
Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 4:5. The dummies cannot see the difference between what it CONTAINED and what it was able to HOLD. (Typical; quite typical.)
1 KINGS 7:27
Observe the multiples of TEN: ten lavers instead of one, ten candlesticks instead of one (v. 49), and ten tables (2 Chron. 4:8). TEN IS THE GENTILE NUMBER (absolutely, in spite of any other scholar’s opinion about it one way or another), and the Millennium is Christ reigning over the GENTILES (Rev. 11:15; Acts 15:16-17; Isaiah 2:1-5).
It took three years to make the pillars (1 Kings 7:13). Talmadge says of the Temple that it was “a diamond necklace for the earth; a vision from heaven had alighted on the mountains.”
1 KINGS 8:2
This is the FEAST OF TABERNACLES, which gives three absolute, confirmed dates:
- The exact date of the BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST.
- The exact date of the SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST.
- The exact date of the CREATION OF THE SUN IN THE “SOLAR SYSTEM.”
(Study the following references carefully: Matt. 17:1-6; 2 Peter 1:13-18; Neh. 8; Acts 15:16; Rev. 21:5; Lev. 23:34-43; Luke 3:23; Hos. 9:5; 12:9; Exod. 25:8-9; Gen. 1:18-19; Matt. 17:1,4.)
The information is carefully hidden from every Greek and Hebrew scholar and every faculty member of every “militant Fundamentalist” school in the world, and at the same time carefully preserved in EVERY EDITION OF THE AV PRINTED SINCE 1611. It is one of two dozen ADVANCED REVELATIONS carefully concealed from people who worship “the verbally inspired, original autographs.”
1 KINGS 8:8
The new generation of hippies (street people: 1960- 1980) want to straighten the world up, and they never learned how to straighten up their own rooms.
1 KINGS 8:8
Contradicts Exodus 25:15, according to the best Fundamentalist brains in the Laodicean church. They are “Fried Freddies” (a street expression for dope addicts). THE ARK HAS FOUND A PERMANENT RESTING PLACE.
1 KINGS 8:9
Note the millennial situations: there is no MANNA, because the Word is present! There is no “Aaron’s rod that budded,” for the Resurrected Priest is present!
1 KINGS 8:62
See 2 Chronicles 7:1 (27,000 and 120,000) v. 63, which would be about 144 killed every hour on four altars; thirty-six an hour on one. With sixteen altars, this would be one every eight minutes.
1 KINGS 8:66
This is where ISAIAH 66 ends with a “new heavens and a new earth.” Observe the other remarkable “undesigned coincidence”–IT IS THE EIGHTH DAY. This is the eternal day that follows the seventh day Millennial “Sabbath” (see 2 Peter 3).
1 KINGS 9:1
There was only a ONE verse warning in chapter 3, but here the warning goes into FOUR LONG VERSES (vv. 6-9). After the mountaintop comes the valley: after the pinnacle of spiritual victory comes the Satanic attack (see David’s case in 2 Sam. 10:18 with 11:1-4).
1 KINGS 9:2
Shows that SIGHT does not always help the spiritual life; God only APPEARED to David in JUDGMENT: otherwise He just talked with him. Note that Solomon takes care of the LORD’S HOUSE before he takes care of his own house: see Haggai 1:2,9 and Proverbs 24:24.
1 KINGS 9:14
Payment was extremely small. Notice 10:10,14. One year was SIX TIMES that much.
1 KINGS 9:19
See 10:29.
1 KINGS 9:22
(See 2 Chron. 8:10). The VEDAS and the Zoroasterian literature is written about this time; too late to give Moses any competition, or Samuel, or the writer of Judges and Joshua.
1 KINGS 10:16
The word “six” occurs twelve times in the chapter.