2Ki 11:1-21  “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” (Col 3:3)

[Study Aired November 17, 2022]

2Ki 11:1  And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 
2Ki 11:2  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. 
2Ki 11:3  And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land. 
2Ki 11:4  And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king’s son. 
2Ki 11:5  And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; 
2Ki 11:6  And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
2Ki 11:7  And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
2Ki 11:8  And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in. 
2Ki 11:9  And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. 
2Ki 11:10  And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD. 
2Ki 11:11  And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple. 
2Ki 11:12  And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king. 
2Ki 11:13  And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD. 
2Ki 11:14  And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. 
2Ki 11:15  But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD. 
2Ki 11:16  And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain. 
2Ki 11:17  And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’S people; between the king also and the people. 
2Ki 11:18  And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. 
2Ki 11:19  And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. 
2Ki 11:20  And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house. 
2Ki 11:21  Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

King Jehoash was only seven years old when he began to reign over Judah, and he reigned forty years. This youngest king to ever rule over Judah is a symbol of the manchild we read of in Revelation 12:5 and 13, which child is a symbol of the elect who are kind of first fruits (Jas 1:18) whose reign while we are on the earth will be over all the kingdoms of this world (Rev 11:15).

Rev 12:5  And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Rev 12:13  And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

The forty-year reign of King Jehoash is a symbol of that time of rulership during the symbolic thousand-year reign of the saints who will rule over the whole [whole 4 x  flesh 10=40] of humanity (Rev 20:6), and at the end of that physical reign all flesh will be destroyed. Another part of the significance of the number forty is connected to trials, which God uses to put off our carnal fleshly thinking [“The Number of Trials“] (Eze 29:12, Heb 3:17).

Eze 29:12  And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 

Heb 3:17  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Chapter twelve of Revelation parallels very well with King Jehoash who typifies the manchild. The comparisons are many, and they all point to the reality that those who “keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev 12:17) are also those who were begotten “of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures” (Jas 1:18). One very strikingly obvious comparison with King Jehoash and the elect bride of Christ is how he was hidden as we are hidden in the Lord (Col 3:3), only to be revealed when the seventh trump sounds and we are all changed in a moment and in a twinkling of an eye. The young King began his reign at seven years old,which is a symbol of the arrival of God’s kings and priests on this earth who have been hidden from the world until this time (1Th 4:16-17, Rev 10:7, Rev 11:15).

Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Col 3:3  For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

1Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 
1Th 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

2Ki 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 

In this first verse we see Athaliah taking vengeance on “all the seed royal” for the death of her son, which symbolizes for us the wrath of Satan through Babylon and the churches of this world against the body of Christ (Act 4:26-29). Another story in God’s word that parallel’s this wrath against the manchild is found in Matthew 2:16 where Herod killed all the children two years and younger. However, Christ was protected by Joseph and Mary (Mat 2:11-15). Moses was also hidden, also typical of the elect as was “Joash” (Heb 11:23). “All the seed royal” (Rom 11:16) represents the many called and not the chosen of the royal seed typified by Joash, a type of the elect (Mat 22:14).

Act 4:26  The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. 
Act 4:27  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, 
Act 4:28  For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. 
Act 4:29  And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

Mat 2:16  Then Herod, [typifying Satan’s spirit] when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, [typifying God’s elect (Mat 7:24, Rev 1:3)] was exceeding wroth (Rev 12:12), and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

Heb 11:23  By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment. 

Mat 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.

Moses being hid for three months is a parallel thought to Joash being hid for six years “And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years” (2Ki 11:3). Three months represents the time of the elect’s judgment while in these vessels of clay (1Pe 4:17), and the “six years” is also a witness to this same point that we must be hid in the Lord for six years [number of man] and be revealed on the seventh year as the manchild of God who is brought forth to rule. When we die daily in the Lord (1Co 15:31), we are telling that fox “Herod” within our deceitful and desperately wicked hearts (Jer 17:9), that we must go onto perfection, or completion [7], on the third day through Christ (2x3=6 Joash hidden, 3 months Moses as a child hidden) after we have been judged in this life (Luk 13:32). When we read the passages about this soon-to-be-boy-king, it is most encouraging to see how protected he was prior to his anointing and after it as well, demonstrating God’s love and care for the elect, from the foundation of the world (Luk 12:32, Rom 8:35, Eph 1:4).

1Co 15:30  And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 
1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

2Ki 11:2  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2Ki 11:3  And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

It is Jehosheba, who is the aunt of Joash, God used to hide Joash from Ahaziah. This event is described with these words: “and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain” showing us that “Jehosheba”^{H3089 = ‘Jehovah’s oath’} is a type of the church which is the bride and the body of Christ (Col 1:24) who comes upon us like a thief in the night and whom God has promised or sworn that He will use to save His elect first in this life (1Th 5:2,  Joh 18:9). 

2Ch 22:11  But Jehoshabeath^{H3089 = ‘Jehovah’s oath’}, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not. [Exo 12:22-23]

H3089 yehôsheba‛ yeh-ho-sheh’-bah  From H3068 and H7650; Jehovah-sworn; Jehosheba, an Israelitess: – Jehosheba. Compare H3090.

H7650 A primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651; to seven oneself, that is, swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times): – adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full [by mistake for H7646], take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church: 

1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 

Joh 18:9  That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.

It is in her bedchamber [Jehosheba’s] where Joash and his nurse are hidden so that he is not slain. The bedchamber represents where we rest in the Lord and are protected, “him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain“, even while we are in the midst of Babylon, in the world but not of it (Joh 17:16, 1Co 5:9-11). 

Joh 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

1Co 5:9  I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 
1Co 5:10  Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 
1Co 5:11  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

The “nurse” who accompanies Joash can also be seen as a type of the church where every nurturing joint contributes in the forming of the life of Christ in each other (Eph 4:16). The nurse protects and cares for the child as we do for each other. This love and care we have for each other is what strengthens us as we bear each other’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ that witnesses to our discipleship in Him (Gal 6:2, Joh 13:35). If not for our coming together often (Heb 10:25), where we partake of our communion in the Lord (1Co 10:16) [symbolized by the blood that is struck on the lintel (“strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason”)] (1Co 10:16), we would be “slain” of the devil and sifted like wheat (Luk 22:31). It is through the faith of Christ working in the faith-filled prayers of His saints that are fervent and continual that we will be able to overcome the wicked one and keep ourselves unspotted from this world, enduring to the end (Jas 5:16, Jas 1:27, Mat 24:13).

Jas 5:16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 

Jas 1:27  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 

Mat 24:13  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

It is by God’s power and might that this work of faith in His little flock, who are “hid in the house of the LORD six years“, will be finished. This is all happening throughout our lives while Satan continues to be the god of this world ruling over mankind, symbolized by Athaliah who “did reign over the land” for those six years which is the number for mankind. Christ uses Athaliah, who is a woman, as a type of Satan who rules over the flesh of mankind for six years. During God’s reign over flesh during the thousand-year reign, Christ is the head, and the body of Christ is the woman directed by the head.

2Ki 11:4  And the seventh year Jehoiada^{H3077=”Jehovah knows” (PNB)} sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king’s son. 
2Ki 11:5  And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; 
2Ki 11:6  And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. 
2Ki 11:7  And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.

This very influential priest of Judah by the name of Jehoiada typifies Christ who, at the appointed time of God, “sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king’s son.” This part of the story is a parable of how Christ builds His church (Mat 16:18) using those who are sent (Joh 20:21) to do this work that began on Pentecost (Eph 4:10-13). The “apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers” of Ephesians 4:13 is what is required for us to grow and mature and be shown “the king’s son” who, when we see Him face to face, we know Him as a result of coming into the unity of the faith. It is what Christ does through us that will bring about “the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ”, and the commands that Jehoiada gives to the “keepers of the watch of the king’s house” is symbolic language telling us of the progression of judgment (the ‘thirds’) we must go through in order to come to this unity of faith, this mature mind of Christ.

It is “a third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house”, the ‘third part’ symbolizing the judgment upon the house of God which leads to maturity in Him, in his house, in His temple that we are (1Co 3:16).  Also, there is “a third part…at the gate of Sur^{H5495 = “degenerate”, “turn aside”, “deteriorated”}; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down”. These thirds being spoken of remind us that our judgment is going to be progressive and ongoing so that the house “be not broken down” (Act 14:22). These areas represent points of entry where sin can enter into our life. Yet through Christ we will be more than conquerors and rule over sin that will no longer have dominion over us (Gen 4:7, Rom 6:14).

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. 

Gen 4:7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

All members of the whole body of Christ are called to do our part as shepherds who look well to His little flock at the “gate of Sur” and “at the gate behind the guard” (Act 20:28), as God teaches us through these captains and guards who were “rulers over hundreds” what is required of us to overcome our carnal, fleshly nature typified by the “hundreds“. The whole world is in covenant with God, but it is only those who are being judged (Heb 9:27) by the Lord today who will benefit from the “rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard” that represent the judgment which brings us “into the house of the LORD“. There, through Christ, we are able to experience this new covenant agreement or oath with Him that makes it possible for us to be shown “the king’s son” in each other (1Co 11:1).

Act 20:28  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 

Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 

1Co 11:1  Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

“And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king” also represents the elect who go forth “on the sabbath” meaning in Christ who is our Sabbath rest and the true witness within us, “two parts“, Who gives us the power and ability to “keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king” “both to will and to do” (Php 2:12-13). He teaches us to make war against our number one enemy who we see in the mirror every day (Psa 18:34-36, 1Ti 6:12). Finally, those different positions that keep guard of the house of the LORD (the three ‘thirds’ above plus this ‘two parts’) add up to five telling us that it is by grace through faith [#5] that we will be saved and able to endure until the end of this life.

Psa 18:34  He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 
Psa 18:35  Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

1Ti 6:12  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 

2Ki 11:8  And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in. 
2Ki 11:9  And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. 
2Ki 11:10  And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD. 
2Ki 11:11  And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.

Jehoiada represents Christ, our high priest, who gives us our commands in this life as we go about wrestling, not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities and the rulers of the darkness of this age (Eph 6:12). This section of kings shows us what is required to battle for the life of Christ within us (Col 1:27) typified by Joash. This section also demonstrates how we must always be ready to do battle against sin when it is near the gate, which we know it always is (Gen 4:7). What we are being shown in these verses is what the body of Christ must do to protect Christ in each other, and the story of Gideon also reminds us of this readiness of mind which is a gift from God and has nothing to do with our own might or power (Jdg 7:7, Zec 4:6). 

Jdg 7:7  And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place (from the 32,000 originally called – see verse 3).

Zec 4:6  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 

So what must we do to protect our crown of life (Rev 3:11) is what is in discussion here, King Joash representing our hope of glory within, “And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.” Any false doctrine that comes “within the ranges, let him be slain” because a little leaven will leaven the whole lump, the whole body (1Co 4:5-6, Gal 5:9). Our love for each other is demonstrated by our obedience to God’s commands which tells us to go to your brother alone and tell him his fault between you and him. That is another way in which we protect our many members, represented by king “Joash” (Mat 18:15-17).

Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

1Co 4:5  Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. 
1Co 4:6  And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Obedience to the commandments of God is the second point being stressed regarding overcoming, and it took all the captains over the hundreds to accomplish what “Jehoiada the priest” commanded. The words coming in “on the sabbath with them that should go out on the sabbath” is again typical of how it is only through Christ, who is our sabbath rest (Psa 121:5-8, Heb 4:8-10), that we can be obediently directed through this whole life and be subject to one another as unto Christ who is typified by Jehoiada (Eph 5:21-28).

Psa 121:5 Yahweh is your Guardian; Yahweh is your Protecting Shade at your right hand.
Psa 121:6  By day the sun shall not smite you, Nor the moon by night.”
Psa 121:7  Yahweh Himself shall guard you from all peril; He shall guard your soul.
Psa 121:8 Yahweh Himself shall guard your going forth and your coming in, Henceforth and unto the eon.”(CLV)

Heb 4:8  For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 
Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 
Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 

Eph 5:21  Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 
Eph 5:22  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 
Eph 5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Eph 5:24  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 
Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 
Eph 5:26  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 
Eph 5:27  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 
Eph 5:28  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

These two verses (2Ki 11:10-11) also have to do with protecting Christ’s spirit, not quenching it, but rather stirring it up and being on alert always as the body of Christ (1Th 5:19, Luk 21:36). We protect the body together with the Word on which we all stand and use to defend any that would come up against us; this being a spiritual statement for God’s elect today but a literal readiness which was required of “the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD“. The spears (Hab 3:11-13, 1Sa 17:47) and shield (Eph 6:16) both represent the word of God (Eph 6:10-11). The shield is for defense, and the spear is for when we need to overcome an enemy within or without (2Co 10:4-5) that would come up against the “temple of the LORD” which temple we all are (because of Baal worship at Peor we read of these acts of Phinehas which stayed the plague on Israel – Num 25:7-8, Heb 12:15).

Hab 3:11  The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Hab 3:12  Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Hab 3:13  Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. 

1Sa 17:47  And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands.

Eph 6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 

2Co 10:4  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 
2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 

Verse eleven explains when we “Fight the good fight of faith, [and] lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called”, we do it together as the body of Christ (Rom 12:5, 1Ti 6:12), and every man must have his spiritual “weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.” Our best place of protection and power is among the body, in the temple (Heb 10:25), “round about the king“, which symbolizes our being round about Christ having been raised in heavenly places together (Eph 2:6). The right corner and the left corner are referencing the power of Christ [right] and His Christ [left–positive use of left given to those who have been given power (Psa 110:1, Rev 11:3)] who is the cornerstone in our life who keeps us strong and bound to the altar, which is the cross (Mat 21:42, Psa 118:27). The cornerstones are “by the altar and the temple” where we present ourselves a living sacrifice unto God and partake of Christ’s life (Rom 12:1-2).

Psa 118:27  God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

2Ki 11:12  And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king. 

The “testimony” was given to “the king’s son” and they “put the crown upon him“, both of which are symbols of what must happen to God’s elect if we are to be made kings and priests. We are “anointed” when we are blessed to read, hear and keep the sayings of the prophecy of His words (Rev 1:3), and that is what this testimony, along with the crown upon him, represents. It also typifies the unction or anointing that God’s elect have been given to know the truth, to have eyes to see and ears to hear these mysteries that are hidden from the world today in Christ (1Jn 2:20-21, Mat 13:16, Col 3:2-3).

1Jn 2:20  But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 
1Jn 2:21  I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Mat 13:16  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Col 3:2  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 
Col 3:3  For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

After this coronation the people “clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.” Our joy cannot be taken from us if God is saving the king as His workmanship in this age which we believe (Joh 6:30) we are (1Pe 2:9, Joh 16:22, Eph 2:10). We will suffer through this life (2Ti 2:12), and be able to endure that suffering through Christ (Php 4:13), and in the morning there will be great rejoicing, inexpressible joy (1Pe 1:7-9, Psa 30:5), which is being expressed with this sentence, “[they] clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.” Yes, please, God save the king within each of us!

1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 

Joh 16:22  And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 1:8  Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, [Joh 6:30] ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1Pe 1:9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 

Psa 30:5  For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

2Ki 11:13  And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD. 
2Ki 11:14  And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

At the return of Christ, “the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains” and say “to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand” (Rev 6:15-17)?  Athaliah will be coming into this realization of who she is and who is really standing and able to stand in the Lord symbolized by the pillars – “the king stood by a pillar.” Standing by the pillars symbolizes our safety in the church as we look to the leadership God ordains to keep us strong and standing in the Lord (1Ti 3:15, Rev 3:12).

1Ti 3:15  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 

Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

She heard the noise of the guard of the people, and she came to the people into the temple of the LORD to witness what God had started and finished during her evil six-year reign over the kingdom of Judah. What she saw, “And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets” and what she did  “and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.” The question that comes to mind is “who shall be able to stand” when Christ returns? The answer of course is that it will be those who have inwardly heard “the trumpeters by the king” and have rent their hearts and not their garments (Joe 2:13) having been crushed under the stone that was rejected by the builders (Act 4:11).

Joe 2:13  And rend your heart [crushed by Christ by judgment (Mat 21:44)], and not your garments [crushed but not changed inwardly through that experience (Rev 6:16)], and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 

Act 4:11  This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

These verses in Revelation 6:15-17 represent the time when the world will begin to understand the great gulf that is between Christ’s Christ and themselves (Luk 16:26). God’s elect will have already been crushed under those rocks that represent His judgment and wrath that have already been poured out upon our old man (Mat 21:44, Rev 15:8).

Rev 6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 
Rev 6:16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 
Rev 6:17  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? 

Mat 21:44  And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

2Ki 11:15  But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

Vengeance is God’s (Rom 12:19) and it is being executed through Jehoiada, who is a type of Christ who will command his people during the thousand-year reign to rule with a rod of iron, expressed in this sentence: “Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.”

“For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD” typifies the elect during the thousand-year reign who know that any death during this period will not be in the Lord, and therefore in this story it reads “Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD” which is where the prophets of God would die, symbolizing our baptism into Christ’s death that cannot happen until the lake of fire for the rest of humanity (Luk 13:33-34, Rom 6:3).

Luk 13:33  Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Luk 13:34  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

2Ki 11:16  And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain. 

This verse tells us that God is going to clear the land of all evil first within His people who will only learn to run with horses (Jer 12:5) after the land is cleansed of all its idolatry and corruption (Gen 49:16-17). Athaliah “went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house“, meaning she was operating in her flesh being controlled by powers and principalities in the heaven, which is where we all start, not able to run with horses, not able to have dominion over those powers and principalities. The Lord will take vengeance on Babylon, and that will come by way of judgment when the world begins to come “into the king’s house“. This is where our old man is slain by the Lord “and there was she slain“.

Jer 12:5  If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? 

Gen 49:16  Dan^{H1835 = judge}  shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 
Gen 49:17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

2Ki 11:17  And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’S people; between the king also and the people. 
2Ki 11:18  And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. 
2Ki 11:19  And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. 
2Ki 11:20  And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house. 
2Ki 11:21  Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

Everything is done by the church which is the body of Christ (Eph 3:10), and Jehoiada making a covenant “between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’S people; between the king also and the people” is symbolic of this relationship which the Lord will accomplish with all the world “by the church”.

Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

The end result of this relationship is then described for us in detail as it typifies the world putting an end to all the idol worship that fills the earth today: “And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.“

Jehoiada taking “the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land” symbolizes Christ overcoming within us first, all the giants of the land removed so that Christ sits on the throne of our hearts (Jer 3:17, Rev 3:21), and secondly it also symbolizes Christ taking the church to accomplish His purpose during the thousand-year reign, which will be to come in the name of the Lord to speak of our great King and fill the earth full of His knowledge and judgments so men can learn righteousness, “and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings” (Isa 26:9, 1Ch 16:14).

Jer 3:17  At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 

Rev 3:21  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

1Ch 16:14  He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 

The fruit of having Christ rule and reign through His elect during the thousand-year reign will be undeniably great, symbolized by this sentence “And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.” There is an acknowledging going on of all the wrongs Babylon has done, and her time of falling is coming and great will be the fall of it, typified by the death of Athaliah “with the sword beside the king’s house“. Take the word ‘beside‘ out and the picture becomes clear that Athaliah and all of Babylon’s wicked ways will be purged and destroyed “with the sword the king’s house“. In other words, we are God’s sword, His threshing instrument, and the king’s house, His inheritance that will be used to judge the world. Nothing that is hidden will not be revealed (Luk 8:17-18), both negatively and positively. The world will come to see God’s workmanship in full force and how Christ was hidden from them, just as the elect will expose all the lies and hidden evils of this world, which purging will culminate in the lake of fire. We are blessed to be hidden in Christ now and to know that His judgment upon us is the great blessing we are receiving today (Rom 2:4) that will make the bride ready (Rev 19:7) and able to judge the rest of the world in great white throne judgment.

Luk 8:17  For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. 
Luk 8:18  Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.