Study of the Book of Kings – 1Ki 10:21-29 “So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom” – Part 3
1Ki 10:21-29 “So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom” – Part 3
[Study Aired March 3, 2022]
1Ki 10:21 And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels 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 nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
1Ki 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1Ki 10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
1Ki 10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
1Ki 10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
1Ki 10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
1Ki 10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
1Ki 10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
1Ki 10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
In this section of 1Kings we are shown in type and shadow how during the thousand-year reign of God’s saints (Rev 20:6), typified by Solomon’s reign, the elect will rule with a rod of iron (Rev 2:26-29). It is with that rod of iron that so many things will be physically accomplished on the earth.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works [words and works of God – his will (Rev 1:3, Rev 20:6)] unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
[God gives the elect power to lead the nations into a self-righteous captivity of doing many wonderful works (Mat 7:22) that ultimately leads to the second death in the great white throne judgment where their own words or works will judge them at that day (Joh 12:48). “In that day” of Matthew 7:22 and “in the last day” of John 12:48 are the same day!]
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Joh 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
In the story of the rich young ruler we learn how he accomplished so much on the earth as he was governed by his own obedience to the commandments of God, and yet he was still a law unto himself. He was no different than the gentile nations around him unbeknown to himself and to us until we are dragged out of Babylon through a lifetime of overcoming that self-righteous spirit of the rich young ruler. That spirit of declaring our many wonderful works is also paralleled with the story of the tax collector and the publican and demonstrates the need for our many trials in this life which keep us abased by God’s grace (Jer 16:14-18, Mat 19:20-22, Rom 8:14-16, Rom 2:14, Luk 18:10-14).
Mat 19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
Mat 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me [be led by God’s spirit to do the works of God (Joh 6:44, Rom 8:14-16)].
Mat 19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Parallel story:
Luk 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
Luk 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
Luk 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. [“All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?” (Mat 19:20)]
Luk 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luk 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
The things of the spirit are still foolish to the natural man at this time of the thousand-year reign, so even if the message being given to the world is the true gospel, the true riches coming from Christ Himself and the saints, it won’t change the way the world discerns that message in their hearts (1Co 2:14, Mat 25:24). There can be no spiritual exchange happening in a heart that is not converted and so we can see how this parable of our Lord applies to this generation during Solomon’s reign just as it does to Babylon today where there is no stay of bread or water (Isa 3:1) by God’s design, which means no treasure can be laid up in heaven [Christ in our heavens as our hope of glory (Col 1:27) “thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me“] (Mat 6:20). As long as we are found with our own righteousness, our many wonderful works will be buried in the earth and hidden which is what the self-righteous thief in me does until he doesn’t: “Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury” (Mat 25:24-28, 1Ch 29:14, Luk 17:10).
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, [“put my money to the exchangers“] where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew [1Co 2:14, Joh 9:41] thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Mat 25:25 And I was afraid [1Jn 4:18, Rom 5:5], and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Mat 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: [Psa 18:26, Eze 14:4].[Slothful not because it didn’t take effort to bury God’s talents in the earth representing our own righteousness, but wicked and slothful because that’s how God sees our self-righteous works we think we are doing independently of God; that is what God is burning out his people daily, that just naturally resides within us (Php 3:9-10).]
Ruling with a rod of iron does not change the heart of mankind, only the rod spoken of in Revelation 11:1 can, which represents what the life of Christ within us is doing (Col 1:27) and also answers the question of the rich young ruler, “What lack I yet?” All of the exchanges that happen with Solomon just as all the exchanges the elect will have with the world during the thousand-year reign, does not equate to bringing forth fruit meet unto repentance (Mat 3:8). In fact it is during the thousand year reign that God will “recompense their iniquity and their sin double” (Jer 16:17-18) as stated in Revelation 18:6. The sins of the Amorites are being filled up during the thousand-year reign, and after Satan is loosed for a season all the nations of the world will attack the saints, which will lead to the destruction of that first self-righteous marred vessel (Rev 20:8).
Jer 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Jer 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.Rev 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
God is using a much broader stroke of the brush [“four quarters“] so to speak at the end of the age to demonstrate that there is none righteous and show us that the heart of man can never mature spiritually without overcoming the devil who was bound during that time of the thousand years (1Jn 2:14, Rev 20:7). Without God’s spirit within us and an adversary who is used as God’s hand, we cannot mature while we are in the flesh (Rom 8:9, Psa 17:13). All of this is instructive for God’s people today to remind us that He is the only One who can stay the arm of Satan and strengthen us through Christ who gives us the ability to resist the devil and cleave to Christ (Jas 4:7). That is the war in heaven that we are currently experiencing (Eph 6:12). However, those who are in the lake of fire will not be wrestling against the same powers and principalities, but rather against Christ in us as His seraphim who are like Christ and able to overcome the old heaven and earth still residing in the yet spiritually carnal humanity which has to be purified along with Satan and his angels in the lake of fire (Eph 1:20-21, 1Jn 4:17, Rev 20:10).
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
This is also the time when another prophecy is fulfilled when destruction will come to all of the physical creation prophesied first in the book of Malachi (Mal 4:6). It is God’s elect who have been blessed to go on to maturity who will be used to administer the lake of fire after the physical destruction of the heavens and the earth. This natural event of the heavens and earth being destroyed precedes the spiritual destruction of the heaven and earth within all of humanity in the lake of fire which will be the day of the Lord for them which God’s elect are experiencing now (2Pe 3:10-11, 1Co 15:46). The old earth represents our own righteousness, where our defiled old heavens reside, and both must be destroyed. These things will pass, flesh and blood will not inherit the kingdom (1Co 15:50), but the words of eternal life will continue on in the new heaven and new earth where there will be one fold that will all be under Christ who is under the Father (Mat 24:35, Joh 6:68).
Mal 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curseH2764.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. [2Th 2:8]
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. [Jud 1:21-25, Jer 13:23]
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation [Rom 2:4]; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; [Luk 21:19]Jud 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jud 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
Jud 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. [Jer 13:23]
Jud 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Jud 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Joh 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
First verse:
1Ki 10:21 And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
This verse shows us the abundance of spiritual riches that will be in the earth during the reign of God’s elect: “And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of LebanonH3844 were of pure gold.
Solomon’s drinking vessels were gold, but so were “the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon”H3844. This “house of the forest of Lebanon” represents the nations of the world who have the gold of God in their possession, but it is being held in unrighteousness (Rom 1:18) or self-righteously via a whiteness [Lebanon] in appearance on the outside but dead man’s bones are within (Mat 23:29).
H3844
lebânôn
leb-aw-nohn’From H3825; (the) white mountain (from its snow); Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine: – Lebanon. Total KJV occurrences: 71
The inability of the nations to repent and change during the thousand years is summed up with this statement: “none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.” Everyone wants to look like the good guy drinking from the golden cup, and yet there is no repentance in the earth during the thousand-year reign of the saints; no conversion (Rom 2:4), symbolized by these words in regard to silver: “none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.” For God’s elect today, Lord willing, we will continue to examine ourselves as we die daily and learn to not despise God’s goodness and longsuffering spirit which is working with us and leading us to repentance, to pure silver that has the dross burned out (Pro 25:4-5, 1Co 11:31, 1Co 15:31, Rom 2:4)
Pro 25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Pro 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
1Ki 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1Ki 10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
This statement “For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks” demonstrates more of the exchange of commerce God’s elect will have with the world’s merchants during the thousand-year reign. These events will play into God’s people’s hands as we walk in and out and among so great a people as Christ did when He was on the earth (1Ki 3:14-15, 1Jn 4:17), but not so we can convert the nations, but simply to prepare us for the day of their visitation when an accounting will be made for all that transpired during the thousand-year reign leading up to rebellion against Christ and His Christ (1Pe 2:12).
It is that exchange which God affords us with the world that will give witness to them that, like king Solomon who is a type of Christ, the world will see how, with Christ in our lives, our riches and wisdom will exceed that of all the kings of the earth. Alas, even being raised from the dead and having been given all this undeniable witness to so many generations, still no conversion will come about in the earth seeing it is only God who can give this increase at an appointed time, which will be the day of their visitation (Luk 19:44, Luk 16:31). This interaction that God’s elect have through the thousand years is very beneficial as it will bring “riches and wisdom” to us as the bride of Christ. It will be a dowry of sorts from Christ that will set the stage when we go to war against all the nations spiritually during the great white throne judgment. The ‘one year’ where the newlywed husband does not go to war is symbolic of the thousand-year reign where Christ’s bride is blessed to have her husband build her up and prepare her for the spiritual battles that will take place in the lake of fire. Of course it’s not much of a battle just as the angel that wrestled Jacob did not break a sweat when that event unfolded (Deu 24:5, Rev 20:1-3, Gen 32:24, 1Co 6:3).
Deu 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.Gen 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
1Co 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
The parallels are striking when we consider how blessed people were to have Christ in their midst healing everyone who came His way (Mat 8:16, Luk 9:11), just as the elect will bring many blessings upon the world during the thousand-year reign, but regardless of the seed of God’s word being sown and the works of God being accomplished, it will not bring forth spiritual fruit in the lives of those receiving these blessings until the appointed time in the lake of fire (Isa 55:11). Bringing “gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks” are symbols of the wealth in the earth, within mankind, but it is still not the purified gold and silver that was used in Solomon’s temple. All of this exchange was for Solomon’s sake, just as all things are for our sakes today, and during the thousand-year reign (2Co 4:15).
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.
The influence of God’s people on the world will be far reaching as this verse tells us: “For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish“, and that influence will result in this iron and clay relationship with the world (Dan 2:43) that will only be dashed by the stone of Jesus Christ’s judgment in the lake of fire (Dan 2:44). Coming up to Jerusalem “once in three years” is not coming up three times in the year as was commanded of Israel (Deu 16:16) as a type of a right relationship with God that is maturing through those three times that Israel came up to worship God and learn of His truths via the process of spiritual completion through judgment [3].
Dan 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Dan 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.Deu 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
1Ki 10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
1Ki 10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1Co 2:9), and without God revealing these things to us via His spirit (1Co 2:10) we will see the desire of mankind to interact with Christ and His bride just as “all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart” which is according to the counsel of God’s will that they do this (Eph 1:11).
God is the one who has put that desire in the heart of man to come to know Christ in us (Joh 6:44) “to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart” and they will bring very physical gifts like Joseph’s brothers (Gen 43:11), that in our mind will be more like flatteries (Job 17:5, Pro 6:24) that won’t convince us that their hearts are converted any more than Joseph’s brothers were converted [in type and shadow] when they met him during the famine, a time that is also analogous of when Christ and His bride will rule over the nations of the world represented in this instance by Joseph’s brothers (Gen 45:4-11). Joseph’s brothers bring ” the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight”. The world will do the same thing to Christ and God’s elect typified by this statement: “And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.“
1Ki 10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
There is always a positive and negative way to look at God’s word, or stories that are made up of the inspired word of God, and this is just as true in this section of scripture that on the positive side of the pillar (Exo 14:20) demonstrates how Solomon who is a type of Christ was able to gather together these powerful beasts “chariots and horsemen” that were used to transport people “in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.” The 12,000 horsemen, show us that Solomon was able to give direction over the foundational kingdoms of his world, and 1400 chariots is symbolic of the favor [1+4] that God was showing to the whole [4] world through Solomon, just as God’s elect will do during the thousand-year reign. We are showing favor to the world by revealing the true gospel to all nations, but that favor will only reap its spiritual benefit in the great white throne judgment.
1Ki 10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
We are again reminded of the commonness of silver, and it is also shared in the same context of these non-fruit bearing cedar trees that were “as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance“, telling us that during the thousand-year reign we are going to be surrounded by man’s righteousness who are as trees (Mar 8:24) and this will be the persistent view we will see in humanity found “in the vale”H8219 which means lowland.
You can’t do battle in a lowland. It does not represent the higher spiritual ground where we have been raised in heavenly places with Christ (Eph 2:6), and silver that represents repentance is not being sought after if people are looking at it as something as cheap as stones on the ground. The positive use of stones on the ground is connected to those who have become like children and are blessed to enter into the kingdom of God now in earnest filled with praise for the wonderful works He has done unto the children of men (Luk 19:37-44).
Luk 19:37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; [Psa 107:30-31]
Luk 19:38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Luk 19:39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
Luk 19:40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, [Eze 9:4]
Luk 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Luk 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Luk 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. [The thousand-year reign is a day of visitation upon the kingdoms of this world, but the way to peace will not be given to the world because “but now they are hid from thine eyes“.]
1Ki 10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
In the positive view, we see Solomon taking the strength out of sin (1Co 15:56) by bringing horses out of Egypt, as well as the “linen yarn“, which is the negative use of linen representing the world’s own righteousness as opposed to the righteousness of Christ (Rev 19:8). It is the king’s merchants who represent God’s elect who “received the linen yarn at a price” which price represents our lives being sacrificed so that this linen can be washed in the blood of the lamb and made pure (Rev 22:14, Eph 5:30)
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
1Ki 10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
This last verse of our study is a witness to the previous verse where Solomon in type and shadow is showing us how by our being a living sacrifice with the pearl of great price within us, Jesus Christ, we can transport, with a chariot “kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means“, and that means is with “six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty“. The six hundred represents mankind who, in time, will appreciate this silver which is the means by which we can move forward through repentance (Rom 2:4, 1Co 3:6, 2Sa 14:14). The process starts when God’s judgments are in the earth so the world can learn righteousness (Isa 26:9); but hearing and doing are two different things and so we’re reminded that it is a “process of spiritual completion through judgment” represented by “an horse for an hundred and fifty” [3×50=150] that was purchased with “silver“.
2Sa 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Repentance and the means by which God is going to save all of mankind through His great mercy is connected with the unsearchable wisdom of God that is past finding out (Rom 11:31-36) and so, too, is this story of king Solomon who “exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.“
Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Rom 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Rom 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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- The Lake of Fire Part 1 (July 14, 2007)
- The Lake of Fire In Genesis (April 13, 2004)
- The Lake of Fire Administered (May 12, 2008)
- The Lake Of Fire Part 2 (May 22, 2009)
- The Lake Of Fire And Prayer (November 2, 2010)
- The Great White Throne Judgment (July 18, 2007)
- The Great Gulf Between the First and Second Resurrections (December 14, 2018)
- The Called and The Chosen (October 3, 2004)
- The Book of Joshua - Part 11, Joshua 10:1-15 'I know that You hear Me always…' (May 6, 2023)
- The Book of Hebrews - Heb 11:32-40 "Through Faith we Understand that the Worlds were Framed by the Word of God" - Part 8 (April 2, 2021)
- The Book Of Life 2010 (November 17, 2010)
- The Benefits Of The First Resurrection (December 18, 2008)
- Teacher's Choice - "Who Will Hearken and Hear...? - Tony Cullen (June 13, 2019)
- Symbolic Lake of Fire Still Painful? (May 13, 2011)
- Study of the Book of Kings - 1Ki 10:21-29 "So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom" - Part 3 (March 2, 2022)
- Song of Solomon 7:1-10 - Part 13 (February 4, 2023)
- Sequence of the Resurrections (May 13, 2011)
- Sequence of Events in Scripture (June 10, 2012)
- Satan and His Angels and The Lake of Fire (June 2, 2008)
- Revelation 21:4-8 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 20:7-10 (May 13, 2011)
- Resurrection(s) (August 26, 2010)
- Responses To Strong Delusion Part 2 (June 15, 2009)
- Purpose of This Lake of Fire of the Elect? (September 25, 2013)
- Purpose For The Lake of Fire (July 9, 2004)
- Pulls of the Flesh Until We Die? (June 10, 2012)
- Prophecy of Isaiah – Isa 44:9-20 – Part 2, He [That Builds an Idol] Warms Himself, and Says, Aha, I am Warm, I Have Seen the Fire (July 20, 2019)
- Prophecy of Isaiah - Isa 65:13-20 Behold I Create New Heavens and a New Earth (October 4, 2020)
- Prophecy of Isaiah - Isa 42:10-17 I Have Long Time Held My Peace...Now...I Will Destroy (May 25, 2019)
- Prophecy of Isaiah - Isa 40:21-31 They That Wait Upon the Lord Shall Renew Their Strength (April 28, 2019)
- Prophecy of Isaiah - Isa 33:1-12 Out of Thine Own Mouth I will Judge Thee (December 8, 2018)
- Prophecy of Isaiah - Isa 31:1-9 The Lord's Fire and His Furnace are in Jerusalem (November 10, 2018)
- Place of Torment As Paradise (April 24, 2007)
- Overcoming The Wicked One (July 10, 2008)
- Over Whom Will The 144_000 Reign (December 16, 2009)
- Not One Doctrine of Orthodox Christianity Is True (July 11, 2005)
- Non_Overcoming Christians Versus Non_Christians (October 28, 2010)
- Laying Up In Store (June 23, 2008)
- Is Satan In The Abyss (October 29, 2007)
- Is Jesus Saving or Judging? (May 13, 2011)
- Is God Judging the World in This Age? (June 6, 2023)
- Is Anyone Saved Outwardly (July 21, 2008)
- Is All of Gods Word Is_Was and Will be? (March 12, 2006)
- I Came Not To Bring Peace? (July 6, 2006)
- How Should We Consider the Dead? (August 7, 2018)
- How Satan And The Thief on the Cross Is Purged? (April 4, 2009)
- How Can Infants Be Judged? (April 6, 2008)
- Hell Gehenna And The Grave (October 3, 2004)
- Hearts of the Children to the Fathers? (May 13, 2011)
- Growing in Grace and Knowledge Through Obedience to Christ (November 4, 2018)
- Gathered Unto His People (March 27, 2010)
- Foundational Themes in Genesis - Study 100 (July 9, 2015)
- Fiery Trials and The Lake of Fire (September 13, 2006)
- Experiencing Fiery Trials and The Very Elect (April 6, 2008)
- Do We All Go Through The Lake Of Fire? (October 8, 2010)
- Do The Aions Come To An End? (October 6, 2008)
- Do People Have to Die Twice? (September 26, 2022)
- Do God's Elect Partake of the Second Death/Lake of Fire? (December 8, 2018)
- Do All Go Through the Lake of Fire? (November 18, 2018)
- Difference Between Aionios And Immortality (September 18, 2007)
- Death Hell And Eternity (January 24, 2009)
- Dealing With Spirits in the Lake of Fire (October 20, 2010)
- Conscience – Summary, Part 16 (February 17, 2024)
- Christ In The Father From The Beginning? (October 28, 2004)
- Can We Lose Our Salvation? (October 13, 2010)
- Can Those In The Lake of Fire Lose Their First Love? (February 28, 2018)
- Are Unbelievers Already Justified? (March 9, 2010)
- Are People Being Saved During the Millennium? (October 6, 2010)
- Acts 11:1-18 They That Were of the Circumcision Contended With [Peter] (April 1, 2023)
- 1st And 2nd Resurrections (November 19, 2009)