THESIS 39: THE INFERIORITY OF OLD COVENANT TYPOLOGICAL MEDIATORS

King David, for all his goodness, would have been disqualified from being an overseer in the Apostolic Church.[132] Likewise Solomon was a polygamist,[133] military dictator,[134] and idolater;[135] under him were fulfilled the curses of 1 Samuel 8.[136] Although representing a departure from God's Law (as given to the Patriarchs[137]), God allowed non-Familial institutions; they (a) helped maintain some social order[138] and (b) served as a pedagogue, teaching the people about the True King, the coming Christ.[139]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

132. 1 Timothy 3:2 + 1 Samuel 25:43; 1 Timothy 3:3 + 1 Chronicles 28:3; 1 Timothy 3:4 + 1 Kings 1:6,11

133. 1 Kings 11:1ff.

134. 1 Kings 4:26ff.; 5:13ff.

135. 1 Kings 11:4-11

136. 1 Kings 10:14+c.; 12:11; cp. Deuteronomy 17:14-20; cf. #20

137. Genesis 26:5; 18:19

138. 2 Chronicles 19:5-11; Isaiah 49:23; #94, #29

139. Psalm 72; Galatians 4:8; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6; 10:11

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