I. THE KING

A. THE WISEST OF MEN

1. THIS WAS THE ROOT OF THE UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY

2. HE HAD UNDERSTANDING TO RIGHTLY JUDGE THE PEOPLE

3. HIS THRONE WAS ESTABLISHED IN EQUITY AND INTELLIGENCE- CAUSING BLESSINGS TO FLOW IN THE LAND

B. THE MESSIAH, THE CHRIST IS THE INCARNATION OF WISDOM

1. I CORINTHIANS 1:30 HE IS “MADE UNTO US WISDOM”

2. COLOSSIANS 2:3 IN HIM “ARE HID ALL THE TREASURES OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE”

3. I CORINTHIANS 1:24 HE IS “THE WISDOM OF GOD”

C. HE RULED IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD

1. ALL THAT HIS FATHER DAVID TAUGHT HIM WAS NOT FORGOTTEN

2. FOR A WHILE HE WALKED IN HOLINESS BEFORE GOD

D. THE MESSIAH IS THE LORD TO BE FEARED

1. HE IS THE PRECEPT IN WHICH MEN ARE TO WALK

2. HI IS THE MEANING OF HOLINESS FOR ETERNITY

II. THE EMPIRE

A. ITS EXTENT

1. FROM THE RIVER TO THE BORDER OF EGYPT, FROM TIPHSAH EVEN TO AZZAH

2. THE KINGS BROUGHT TO HIM GIFTS AND BOWED TO HIM

B. PSALM 72:7,8 DESCRIPTIVE OF THE EMPIRE

1. MATTHEW 28:18 “ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH”

2. REVELATION 11:15 “THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD AND OF HIS CHRIST”

C. ITS DURATION

1. SOLOMON’S REIGN WAS LONG – BUT CUT SHORT BECAUSE OF HIS UNFAITHFULNESS

2. CHRIST’S REIGN WILL BE TRUE AND FAITHFUL

a. HE SHALL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER- AND OF HIS KINGDOM THERE SHALL BE NO END

b. REVELATION 11:15 “AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER

III. THE SUBJECTS

A. THEIR NUMBER

1. “AS THE SAND WHICH IS BY THE SEA IN MULTITUDE”

2. REVELATION 5:11; 7:9 “A GREAT MULTITUDE WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER

B. THEIR CHARACTER

1. SOLOMON’S SWAY EXTENDED OVER THE GENTILES AS WELL AS THE JEWS

2. THIS WAS A TYPE, A SHADOW

C. THE DIFFERENCE

1. IN OUR LORD’S KINGDOM THERE WILL BE NO BONDAGE NO FORCED LABOR, NONE TO BEAR BURDENS

2. THE FREE LABOR OF LOVE WILL REQUIRE NO REST

a. REVELATION 4:8 “REST NOT DAY AND NIGHT

b. HEBREWS 5:9 “WILL KEEP A PERPETUAL SABBATH” ALL SHALL BE HOLY

IV. THE REIGN

A. IT WAS PEACEFUL – IN THE MESSIAH’S REIGN THEY SHALL “BEAT THEIR SWORD INTO PLOWSHARES”

B. IT WAS JOYOUS AND PROSPEROUS

1. THE VINE AND THE FIG TREE MAY REMIND US TO THE TREE OF LIFE WITH ITS 12 MANNER OF FRUIT

2. THE SECURITY OF LIVING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD

C. THAT GOLDEN AGE LASTED “ALL THE DAYS OF SOLOMON

D. THAT WHICH IS TO COME WILL BE ETERNAL AS LONG AS THE SON OF GOD LIVES

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