Jesus in the Old Testament is a series of posts that will offer my readers a chance to consider pictures or shadows of Jesus in the Old Testament. As mentioned in the introduction to this series, some may be obvious, some may be not so obvious, and some may simply be a facet of the Lord those reading may not have considered previously.
I hope as we venture through this series, we will see the Lord in many wonderful pictures throughout the Old Testament.
| SEEING JESUS IN |
| BATHSHEBA |
| Child of Promise |
| 1 Kings 1:28-30 Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba to me.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before the king. And the king swore, saying, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity, as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ even so will I do this day.” |
| Romans 9:8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. |
In our last posts we have seen the shame and of a promise kept for both Bathsheba and the Lord.
In this post we see a principle that is related to the patriarchs of Israel, Abraham’s sons Isaac and Ishmael, and Isaac’s sons Jacob and Esau.
A short history lesson regarding Abraham. He had a son through the impatience of a certain wife, naming him Ishmael. Over a decade later, Isaac was born through a certain wife. Both sons were of Abrahams loins. Isaac was the younger and received the inheritance!
Later, as Isaac was about to become a father, Esau actually fully breached the birth canal first, making Jacob the literal second born. (Jacob struggled with his brother even in the womb though). Jacob was therefore classified as second born, but the promises were passed onto him.
In the Word, it is not uncommon for a child of promise to be elevated over a child of the flesh.
In this passage we see Solomon, a son of David, a son whom the King had provided Bathsheba a promise of the throne to, usurp the “normal” succession of the a throne to the eldest. Solomon had a promise laid on him at an early age, and though Bathsheba became David’s wife after a number of predecessors had provided children, the promise the king gave to Bathsheba invalidated all normal procedures and practices. Solomon would be elevated based on promise, not on order of birth.
The promise of God is not held down by convention or customs, by standard accepted procedures or expectations. Jesus, as the second Adam, is the true Son of Promise and as such reigns over all.
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