There’s something I need to remind you of about King David.
Yes, he foreshadows the coming Messiah.
But he is not the Messiah.
We see this in his sins…most famously the Bathsheba affair.
And now his flaws show up once again in how he handled Tziva’s treachery against Mephibosheth.
Instead of admitting his wrong in stripping the handicapped Mephibosheth of his estate and giving it to the arrogant gentile Tziva, what did he do?
He came up with the idiotic solution of splitting the estate between them.
This is the equivalent of a 2-state solution with Israel’s archenemy, the Palestinians.
That hound dog ain’t gonna hunt because the entire estate belongs ONLY to Israel.
So David did not deal justly in this case.
Later, his son Solomon will follow in his father’s footsteps when he rules among the two prostitutes who were each claiming the baby as their own.
Recall that Solomon ordered the baby to be “split in half.”
No doubt he got that idea from David’s verdict to split the estate between Tziva and Mephibosheth case.
There’s also another interesting correlation between Solomon’s case with the two prostitutes and Tziva and Mephibosheth.
In the King Solomon case, one of the mothers (the real mother) cared so much for the safety of her child that she agreed to give up the baby because she knew splitting the child in half would end its life.
However, the false mother could have cared less about the baby’s life and gleefully agreed to Solomon’s ruling.
This same difference in mindset is also reflected in the characters of Mephibosheth and Tziva.
Mephibosheth’s sole concern was that Adonai’s anointed King be restored to the throne and that the kingdom be made whole.
Tziva, on the other hand, only wanted the worldly benefits to be had by getting his grubby hands on Saul’s former estate.
This is a perfect example of the difference between one whose focus is on the things of the Lord…
And one whose focus is on the things of the world.
One is a liar who pretends to know and love God.
The other is sincere, and his main desire is for the restoration of God’s Kingdom under His Chosen Son.
I wonder which one you are.
Ya feel me?
Done.
CONNECTING THIS TEACHING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
“Therefore, take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat? or,
What shall we drink?
Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)
For your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God,
and his righteousness;
and all these things shall
be added unto you.”
-Matthew 6:31-33
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