Zadok and Abaithar Priesthoods - Part 1 — David Wilkerson

Together with cords that cannot be broken, bind us together, Lord, bind us together, Lord, bind us together with love.

The Danger of Smoldering Embers in Ministry

I carry with me this morning a promise from the Lord that he's going to do a profound work in all of our hearts. I divide my time now primarily between street work in mostly New York City and overseas work and a few ministers' conferences.

I really feel God's put a burden on my heart to share as he gives me an opportunity. And I can say with these gentlemen, I'm honored in the spirit to come this morning and share my heart with you. Hallelujah.

You know, I couldn't sleep last night much because I was up quite a bit. The Lord was pouring a message in my heart, the sins of shepherds. Now, that's not my message this morning. Brother Rutledge mentioned about those promises God makes us way back when we were just starting in the ministry.

There's something the Lord really has been dealing with me about last night, and I can't shake it off, and I hope that he'll let me share it. And those three sins in the ministry happen to be an inability to hear, receive, and appropriate reproof.

It's very difficult for ministers to receive reproof. We love to give it, but it's hard to receive it. And I'm not even giving it out, I'm just sharing something in my heart that last night just kept me up.

And the one thing that kept me up was the matter of smoldering embers, a fire that burns within us. And these embers will burn for 20 and 30 years, and God will never bring us in to the fullness in our own lives until we deal with those smoldering embers.

The fire that burns and continues to break out. The Lord took me all through the Word last night, and I began to see the fires break out in men of God that destroyed them, just at the height of their usefulness.

And they had never come to the place where they dealt with those smoldering embers, those fires of lust that were ignited years ago. Both men and women, wives, and I'm glad to see the wives that are here this morning.

Many times ministers go to conference and leave their wives at home. And they have the same needs and the same word of the Lord needs to be received by the wives that are here. And I want God to give me this message in its fullness for myself.

He was saying to me that I will not come in to the fullness that he has for me in my own life. Forget my ministry, just my life. I can't come into it until I deal with a certain fire. Those things that were ignited when I was a young preacher, when I was first starting out.

And I didn't maintain my prayer life and didn't bathe myself in this word as I should and follow through. We all are touched by God. We go so far and then we back off. And it's those times of backing off that these fires get out of control.

And it's not just lust. There's so many, many other fires. And I have yet to meet a man of God. And I can name some great men of God. I have in my circle of friends five of the greatest prophets on the face of the earth.

Men of God in their seventies. Some of them came through great movements of God. And I've heard them all confess the same thing. That when God really got down deep into the heart, He began to deal with the embers.

The smoldering embers of fires that break out in the seventies, in the fifties, sixties and seventies of men's lives. And I hope to deal with that. This morning, I want to deal with the Zadok priesthood.

The Faithful Zadok Priesthood in 1 Samuel 2

Would you mind saying with me, Zadok? Alright, I hope that will be more than just a word before we're finished this morning. I want you to turn with me, if you will, please. Now, by the way, I presume you have your Bible.

I couldn't conceive a minister, Christian worker, coming here without one. So, I'm not embarrassed any further than that. Turn with me, please, to 1 Samuel. Second chapter, 1 Samuel 2. This is a prophetic message this morning about what I believe God is doing in raising up a Zadok priesthood after His own heart.

Do you love the word? Would you look this way for a minute? I'm going to take you through this thing. Every time you're here, if you don't have your Bible, you better look over somebody's shoulder. I'll lose you, and you won't understand a word I'm saying unless you're with me.

And I'm amazed. When God told me to put up all my stories and become a Bible preacher. By the way, I discovered that you can go to ministers' meetings and find less Bibles than anywhere else. And, you know, we always say, well, I have the word hidden in my heart.

But, gentlemen, we're not setting an example for the sheep. If we're not in this thing and bathed in it. When I put out that last book, Set the Trumpet in Your Mouth, in one month I had over 30 false prophets in my office.

I finally had to have somebody else take them. And they'd use the excuse, I just have to see, I have a need, I have a burden, I'm brokenhearted. And when they get in the office, they started prophesying.

I've had them leave their shoes out my door as a curse and threaten my death and everything else. Because I wasn't receiving their prophecies. But the only thing, they didn't know their Bibles. No false prophet knows his Bible.

And if you know your Bible, you can tear them apart. I mean, put them to shame. And they'd have to go out and put their shoes at the door. And we need to know this book. And I want to take you into it.

Let's get into it, please. First, I'm reading from New American Standard. Boy, I love this. New American Standard. It's so open to the Word. I recommend it. I was thinking, why would I recommend an American book?

But I remember Canada is America, too. This is North America. You know, we come from the United States and think that's the only America there is. No, there's a North and there's a South America. Canada is in America.

Canada is America. All right. New American Standard. NIV is pretty close to this. New King James. But whatever you have, you'll catch it. Let's go with the 27th verse. 1 Samuel 2, 27. Then a man of God came to Eli and said...

By the way, we don't know who this man is. Oh, I'd love to meet this man. He is one of the greatest prophets in the Old Testament. He prophesied something that you and I are coming under the influence of even today.

Profound prophet. Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him,. And thus says the Lord, Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, In spite of all that I do good for Israel, and an old man will not be in your house forever, yet I will not...

Notice this. I will not cut off every man of yours from my altar, that your eyes may fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life. And this will be the sign to you which shall come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phanis, in the same day both of them shall die.

Now listen to this. But I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul, and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before my anointed always.

Now that's the key verse and I want to read it again. But I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul, and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before my anointed always.

Lord Jesus, we bind now every spirit that would conspire against us to rob us of truth. Lord, we have got to be hearers of this word and then doers. And I pray, Lord, that you would open our hearts. Let me, Lord, deliver the reproof that you've given to me with love.

Lord, I've been under this rod. I've been reproved and I've felt it and I've received it. Now, Lord, I share it. Go deep into our hearts, Lord. You brought this meeting together. There are shepherds here this morning.

There are pastors, there are ministers, there are Christian workers that hunger for a righteous walk with you. And you're looking for a righteous remnant. And that is the message of this last hour, that you are raising up a faithful priesthood.

After your own heart. Lord, we want to come into that this morning. So we bind every spirit that would hinder us from hearing what the Spirit would say. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Alright, you're finding here in 1 Samuel 2, a curse upon one kind of priesthood and the prophetic raising up of an enduring, holy remnant priesthood.

You're going to hear any man who's praying now talk about remnant. You say, what's all this talk about remnant? Get a hold of God, set yourself in and you'll hear the same thing. That he is raising up a people to himself after his own heart.

And he's going to have shepherds. It used to be the worry of my spirit that God would move so among sheep. And usually the sheep are far ahead of the shepherds. And that's the same thing happening now in the United States.

The sheep are far ahead of the shepherds. And seeking God, and the fear of my heart has always been, Lord, you're going to raise up this great remnant of believers. Will there be shepherds to carry them on?

Will there be shepherds to be able to minister to them as they move on in you? Then God began to show me this. And my heart began to rejoice. Eli represents a cursed priesthood. A priesthood of fat, self-centered servants of God.

They represent those who are called priests who lightly esteem the Word of God. A ministry who does not like to hear or give correction. Spiritual children that have become wicked under their ministry.

The Bible says in verse 29, they make themselves fat with the choices of every offering of my people. Verse 13, it says, even though his sons brought a curse upon themselves, he did not rebuke them. They were living in idolatry and adultery.

He didn't raise a hand against them. The Bible says his house is going to be judged. The glory of the Lord, remember, departed from Shiloh and his sons died. Eli dies. What was this everlasting judgment on a certain kind of ministry represented by Eli?

Why did this man come and speak of two priesthoods? He placed a three-pronged curse upon the household of Eli and this kind of priesthood. He said, first of all, I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house.

This is a priesthood with an inbred weakness. I am going to break your strength and the strength of your father's house. That's in verse 31. If you look in verse 32, you'll find the second prong of this curse.

There will be a continual falling short of God's fullness, and you will see distress of my dwelling in spite of all the good I do for Israel. I'll be blessing my people, but you will always have a measure of distress never coming into the fullness.

You will always come short of the fullness. You represent a priesthood that will always be seeking and searching and never come into the fullness. The third part of this curse, verse 33, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

Now, that's a very spiritual significant thought, that just at the peak of your ministry and usefulness, there's going to be a fall. There's going to be a breakdown because there's something in you of weakness.

There's something in you of a curse that's not been dealt with. And nobody of this priesthood will inevitably go through to fullness but will wind up on the shelf. And I grieve over the ministers that I know in their 60s and 70s and even in their 50s are on the shelf.

In the prime of life, it's all over. In the prime of usefulness, it's all done. And I want to show that to you as the Holy Spirit leads this morning. Now, here's a weak, flawed, self-centered priesthood, but he said, I'm not going to destroy it.

I'm going to let it continue on. Isn't that what he said? Yet, I will not cut off every man of yours from my altar. He places a curse on this fat, self-centered, weak priesthood. And he said, yet, verse 33, yet I will not cut off every man of yours from my altar.

I'm going to let it continue. That ministry is with us today. But there's another kind of priesthood prophesied here also. Verse 35, but I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul and I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always.

That's an amazing prophecy. A prophecy that God will raise up a holy remnant priesthood enduring to the end. He said, I will build it. That gives me great comfort that God is doing it. God is building himself a priesthood.

A holy, sanctified, separated priesthood. Now, this dual priesthood is very clearly illustrated in the ministry of Zadok and Abiathar under the Davidic kingdom. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there?

This is in 2 Samuel 1535. Don't turn. Just let me read it again. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests that are with you there? We see fulfilled clearly here the prophecy of this man who came to Eli.

That dual priesthood continued even up to Christ's time. Remember, Caiaphas and Annas. The dual priesthood continued right through. This dual priesthood continues. That dual priesthood is here this morning.

There is a dual priesthood represented here this morning. And God's desire is to get you out of the Abiathar priesthood into the Zadok priesthood. Zadok in Hebrew is Zadok and it means one proved righteous.

One who is proved righteous. Abiathar is Ebiathar. It means a peace with the Lord who is my God. Both very pious names. Let's look first at Zadok. I want to have you study this name with me for just a bit.

Zadok's Faithfulness to David

1 Chronicles 12. 1 Chronicles 12. Do you love the word say, man? Okay, I want you to go to 1 Chronicles 12. I'm going to start at verse 22, please. I'm going to bring you to the first introduction of this man.

And remember David... Is it Ziklag? And David... Remember Ziklag lost everything. Verse 22. For day by day men came to David to help him until there was a great army like the army of God. Now these are the numbers of the divisions equipped for war who came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul to him according to the word of the Lord.

Now the whole process, look at that now. There's a kingdom change. God is moving from one realm to another. The anointing's been lost by Saul. And look at verse 26. Of the sons of Levi, 4 ,600. Levi recognizes where God is moving.

He recognizes God's anointing. Look at verse 28. Also Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house 22 captains. Alright, look at this please. Look at me if you will. Here comes Zadok, a young man of valor.

And from the time Zadok meets David at Ziklag, he never once swerved the rest of his ministry. He knew what God was saying. He knew where the anointing was. He knew what God was saying to the generation.

And his heart went after David. I read to you in verse 23. He's turning the kingdom of Saul to David according to the word of the Lord. And Zadok, in his whole house, says, I'm going with David. I'm going with this man.

I commit myself to him. He made a commitment to David. Never did Zadok swerve from that time on. If you remember, in fact, let's go to 2 Sam, if you will please. I'll show you another glimpse of this tremendous man of God.

Let's go to 2 Samuel 15. Let's go to the 23rd verse, if you will please. Do you remember? David's running from his own son Absalom. Absalom is in rebellion. Verse 23, while all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over.

David's having to flee for his life from his own son Absalom. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness. Now behold, Zadok also came. Hallelujah!

Zadok is still with David, totally committed. And all the Levites with him, carrying the Ark of the Covenant of God. And they set down the Ark of God, and a barathah came up until all the people had finished passing from the city.

And the king said to Zadok, Return the Ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the sight of the Lord, then He'll bring me back again and show me both it and His habitation. Go to verse 27. The king also said to Zadok the priest, Are you not a seer?

You know what that means in Hebrew? Are you not one of discernment? Do you not have a gift of discernment? Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, your son Ahimaaz and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar.

See, I'm going to wait at the fjords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me. Go to verse 35. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priest with you there? So it shall be that whatever you hear from the king's house, you shall report to Zadok and Abiathar the priest.

All right? I want to paint a picture for you for a moment, if you will look this way. Here is a marvelous blessing of David upon this man. He said, You're the man I trust. You have the strength to go back into the city and spy on my son.

He said, You have a strength in you. You will not fail me. Go back. And he had Hushaiah there to remember. And in the midst of corruption, while Absalom is taking David's concubines, and a tent on the top of the roof, and before all of Israel openly committing adultery and fornicating with these wicked women, here in the midst of all the decay and the ruin, there is a holy priesthood in Jerusalem.

There is a man of God in that city who is totally committed to David. Nothing moves him. And David says to him, And what a trust he puts in this man. You have discernment, Zadok. Go back and you bring me word.

And you remember it was the sons of Zadok and Abiathar who carried the messages of Absalom's every move to David hiding in the wilderness and in the caves. He said, There's something about you, Zadok, of faithfulness and commitment to me.

While a whole nation is in rebellion, this priesthood remains true to the Lord. David is His only king. He'll walk blameless before David. And in this process of Zadok walking blameless on behalf of David, God is building an enduring house for Zadok.

The prophecy is being fulfilled. I'll build you an enduring house, Zadok. He's building David an enduring house, but He's also building Zadok an enduring house. This is that faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul, according to the prophecy.

This is the holy remnant. These are servants of the Lord, the offspring of Zadok. Today we see them. While there's rebellion and ruin all around, in the house of God before His holy altar are still men who do according to the will of God in His heart.

The Mark of a Zadok Priesthood

Ezekiel had a vision of a spiritual temple. And Ezekiel was very well aware of this man who came to Eli. In fact, he wrote a whole chapter based on that prophecy. I want you to, before I take you to that prophecy, go to Ezekiel 43 with me, if you will please.

Ezekiel 43. Before we finish this morning, I'm going to show you something to make you weep. When I saw it, I've wept ever since I've seen it. But I want you to go to Ezekiel 43, 19. And I want to show you the mark of a Zadok priest.

The 19th verse, Ezekiel 43. And you shall give to the Levitical priest, who are from the offspring of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord God a young bull for sin offering.

Now friends, I really believe that this tabernacle, this temple of Ezekiel, in 42, 43, 44, is a vision temple. Never was built, never will be built. He's seeing the church. I don't think we'll ever understand this vision temple until we get to heaven.

I don't believe we'll understand it until God reveals it and Ezekiel is given an opportunity to explain his whole vision. I do know that he sees in this vision temple, this pure temple of God, he sees a ministry whose mark is this right here now.

And they're the ones who get the bull. Those are the ones who are given the sacrifice, who are from the offspring of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me. That is the mark of a Zadok priest. His ministry is to minister only to the Lord.

Not to the house, but to the Lord. That's the Zadok priesthood. Now, the Zadok priesthood is the descendant from Aaron. The Abiathar ministry is a descendant of Eli. Now, keep that in mind. Abiathar, now let's look at him for a moment, if you will.

I'd like to establish these two men and their types first. Now, Abiathar, remember, his very name means, Peace with God and He is my Lord. Very pious name. Abiathar, a pious, dedicated man at peace with God.

His very name conjures reverence. Now, remember, he's with David, crossing over the Kidron when he's running from Absalom. Remember, the Bible says... And Abiathar came up also. Abiathar says, This is rebellion, this is wrong.

My heart's with David. Now, up to this time, it's fine, isn't it? What a great man of God he appears to be. You'll find that back in 2 Samuel 15, 29, also verse 35. He said, Absalom is in rebellion. He and his son Jonathan appear to be just as faithful as Zadok.

He appears outwardly holy, blameless and faithful. But why is it that so soon, in this whole story in the Old Testament, the prophets forsake Abiathar and they speak only of the Zadok priesthood from then on?

You won't find Abiathar after these first few contacts with him. And I want to show you how clearly this prophecy of this man of God comes to pass, that Abiathar has in him, in spite of the fact that he's known as a pious man, people look up to him with great reverence.

This was an outward facade. There was no deep inner commitment to David. Remember the prophecy that there would be an inner weakness? Remember the prophecy that there would not be a long, continued ministry, but at the height of usefulness, there would be a fall, there would be a breakdown.

There would be a smoldering ember that would break out into a fire that would char the branch and destroy it. And you'll find that prophecy in Ezekiel 6. But I want you to go with me to 1 Kings. This is the most tragic.

Abiathar's Fall Through Self-Exaltation

1 Kings, 1 chapter. Turn with me quickly. 1 Kings, 1 chapter. This is a frightening fulfillment of prophecy. I don't know about you, but I read some of these things. They make me weep. I want you to start reading with me the 5th verse.

1 Kings, 1 chapter, beginning of the 5th verse. Don't read ahead of me. Look this way for just a minute. I was in crusade ministry, friends, preaching to thousands. I'd have a thousand people tonight at an altar, sometimes two thousand at an altar.

And the whole time my heart divided. I didn't live in adultery, but my wife had cancer, six operations for cancer. And there was just this subtle thought, God, I can't take him or let her die. Give me a younger woman who can stand with me with strength.

I wasn't looking, but the thought was there, and it was there for a number of years. And I had a terribly divided heart. Seeds of lust. Preaching these textual sermons. Telling stories. And the Lord shut me down.

I've really been shut down for three years. Almost five. I'm not in crusades anymore. Occasionally I go to a church or two. Trying to get back to my roots in the street. But God began to make it clear to me that the only preaching that changes lives is Bible preaching.

The Word. It's a hammer. It's a consuming fire. So I really don't care what anybody thinks about me having to take them through this thing. It's the only way I can show it. It's the way He took me. I didn't get it from a man.

He just, month after month, said, eat the book, eat the book. But I can't tell you what I've been through. I got so hungry five years ago, I went through every Puritan writer. You can't name a Puritan writer.

From Sibbes and Brown and Grinnell and Owens. I read volumes. I read 15 volumes at a time. Then I went to all the English writers. I went through Wesley and I went through John Fletcher, who he called the most pious man since St. Paul.

I went through three of his volumes. Then I went to the new English writers. I went to the great writers of the early outpouring in 1850 in England. I went through Macintosh and J .P. Stoney for years until I couldn't read anymore.

About a year and a half ago, God said, eat the book. Put it all down, eat the book. Then He began to take me into some of these truths. When He led me to this, I trembled because I knew I was there. I was reading my story.

Some of you are going to read yourself here. Let's go with the fifth verse. 1 Kings 1, chapter 1, verse 5. Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying, I will be king. So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen with 50 men to run before him.

And his father had never crossed him at any time by asking, why have you done so? And he was a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalom. And he had conferred with Joab, the son of Zariah, and with Abathar, the priest.

And following Adonijah, they helped him. Tragic. But Zadok, the priest, Ben-Aniah, the son of Jehoiad, and Nathan, the prophet Shimeiareah, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

And Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zohelith. Now take a look at that. I'm going to show you what that means, the stone of Zohelith. It's very significant. Which is beside Enrogel.

And he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants. But he did not invite Nathan, the prophet, Ben-Aniah, the mighty men, and Solomon, his brother. All right, now look this way, if you will, please.

He's not with Solomon in his rebellion. But now comes a ministry of self-exaltation, a man-centered, self-centered ministry. Adonijah exalted himself, and that's the key. Abathar, the priest, followed Adonijah.

By this time, David's an old man. If you read the first few verses, you'll find a beautiful young lady named Abishag. They bring him in. I don't understand that whole story, how they bring him in to try and get heed.

I don't understand it. I don't even try to interpret it. But what I'm saying is that this man, all the time he's exalting himself, and all the time he's seduced Abathar, he's after this woman. Remember, this cost him his life eventually.

He goes after Abishag. He's lusting after this woman. He's exalting himself. And how a man of God, who has peace with God, can be seduced by this man, I don't know. Any more than I can understand how any man of God is being seduced by the ministry of prosperity and self-exaltation and self-centeredness.

What we're seeing today is an old story. It's the Abathar priesthood, according to the prophecy of this man, coming into full bloom. It's been prophesied years and centuries ago, and we're seeing the fulfillment of that prophet now.

That's why that prophet seems so important to me now. And they go to the stone of Zohelith, which is interpreted in Hebrew, the stone of the serpent. Zohelith, the serpent. Can you imagine? Abathar is down at the stone of the serpent.

He's fallen under the seduction of a ministry, and he believes it's a new ministry, a new thing that God's doing in the land. He has no discernment, and you see that at the height of his blessing, now he's falling under this three-pronged curse.

He's about to be put on the shelf, and he doesn't know it. And he's down at the stone of Zohelith, he's at the stone of the serpent, with a ministry that basically is built on adultery, lust, and self-exaltation.

Abathar leaves David, and he confers with Adonijah, and he goes to the stone of Zohelith, and there Abathar offers to the Lord his sacrifices. See, we've got people today looking for new things, crying out for new ministries.

I see evangelists in ministries, pastors and shepherds going after every new thing that comes down to their right, because they do not have that enduring relationship with the Lord. They don't have the strength of his word in their heart.

They're not bathed in it. They don't know it. They've never gone into the secret closet and carved out for themselves. At theology, they'll see them through anything, and so they're swept by every wind and wave of doctrine that comes along.

Nobody's more guilty of that than shepherds. Don't blame the sheep. The shepherds are responsible for that. Abathar gets caught up in it. A pious, once faithful man at the peak of his ministry makes a wrong move.

He turns the wrong way, unwittingly thinking he's right in the center of God's will. Look at the difference between these two priesthoods. Abathar's now coming under the curse of Eli. There's a weakness in this man that's beginning to surface.

Now, let's look at 1 Kings 1 .32. Just turn over, if you will, to verse 32. You see, if you follow this story through in this chapter, Nathan... Oh, by the way, do you know that down at the stone of Zahidath there's not a holy man in the bunch?

Nathan's not there. Zadok's not there. Solomon's not there. Do you... Look at me for just a moment. I've observed something. Men who preach self-centered messages run in packs. They run in packs. Look at the conferences, and I'll tell you why.

There is an underlying sense that I may be wrong and I have to be reinforced. There's still a lingering thing there by God's Holy Spirit saying, You're preaching what is false, and you'll find your own kind.

If you're of the Abathar priesthood, you'll finally gravitate to that kind of ministry. If you're of the Zadok ministry, you'll find that holy priesthood, and the Bible says in that day they'll all speak the same language.

Hallelujah. Nathan goes to David and he says, Have you appointed Adonijah as king? He's got men riding before him. He's announced himself as king. David was horrified, and he says,. Then King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest.

Hallelujah. Who is our David? Jesus Christ the Lord. Hallelujah. And where does the master turn when there's a crisis in the land? He turns to Zadok. Then King David says, Call to me Zadok the priest.

Verse 34, And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there. He's talking of Solomon. Anoint him as king over Israel and blow the trumpet and say, Long live King Solomon. Hallelujah. Look at verse 43.

But Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, No, our Lord King David has made Solomon king. The king has also sent with him Zadok the priest. And I'll tell you when Adonijah heard that Zadok was with him, he knew it was all over.

Because God was with Zadok. Men who live in sin are afraid of men of God. They can't look them in the eye, because there's sin in their lives. See, a Biathar has in him that indulgent, lazy, weak spirit, that seed of Eli.

It's been laying dormant all the time. I want to show you an amazing fulfillment of prophecy. Do you know that Solomon was aware of that prophet? I want to prove it to you. First Kings. Let's go. I've got to find it here.

First Kings 1 .32, I believe it is. We've been to that. I've got another scripture here. Here it is. First Kings 2 .26. First Kings 2 .26. Oh, yes. Here it is. Before I set this, would you look this way just a moment?

Remember now, Solomon has been anointed king by Zadok. And Solomon has been observing this whole thing. He's watching these two men. And Solomon at this point is a great man of God. The kingdom is in his hands.

He remembers that a Biathar has been to the stone of the serpent. He was a part of this rebellion. Now, listen to an amazing prophecy. Look at verse 26. I'm going to read through to 27. Then to a Biathar the priest.

This is Solomon speaking. The king said, go to Anaphoth to your own field. He's being put on the shelf. For you deserve to die. But I will not put you to death at this time because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.

Now, listen to this amazing prophecy. So Solomon dismissed a Biathar from being priest of the Lord in order to fulfill the word of the Lord which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli and Shiloh. You see it?