The Key of David
Unlocking Biblical Scriptures
Used twice in Scripture (Isa 22:22 & Rev 3:7), the phrase Key of David refers to possessing
legitimate authority to rule Israel,
the holy nation of God. The Key of David
doesn’t refer to a physical throne or to a physical nation. “Israel”
is the woman of Revelation chapter 12. She goes from being the physical nation
that gave birth to Christ Jesus (v. 5) to the spiritual nation whose
offspring keep the commandments of God and hold the testimony of Jesus (v.
17), which is the spirit of prophecy (Rev 19:10). Israel will become the single great
nation promised to the patriarch Abraham (Gen 12:2) when the kingdom of the
world becomes the kingdom of the Most High and of His Christ (Rev 11:15-18; Dan
7:9-14).
But the Key of David means more than who has the
right to rule Israel.
The Key of David is the key that unlocks
Scripture: it means understanding the writings of King David, a man after
God’s heart, a man who used the outside/inside movement of Hebraic
poetics to simultaneously reveal and conceal knowledge. David’s use of
repetition to form couplets within David’s songs, a poetic style he inherited,
functions to marry the visible to the
invisible, thereby causing the
visible to become a copy and shadow of the invisible (Heb 8:5 et al). The poetic movement captured
within the thought couplets is from darkness to light, from night to day, from
death to life, from hand to heart, from society to individual, from the natural
nation of Israel to the spiritual nation of Israel, from the authority to reign
over the natural nation (Isa 22:22) to the authority to reign over the
spiritual nation (Rev 3:7). The Key of
David uses typology to unlock sealed and secret prophecies, to reveal the
mysteries of God, and to hide these secret things of God from the natural
nation of Israel
that saw only with eyes and heard only with ears.
The movement
from natural to spiritual, from darkness to light is used throughout Holy Writ to
prevent understanding the mysteries of God before the end of the age. It is the
key to understanding the scriptural inclusion of one event and the exclusion of
another, for what has been included forms the visible shadow of what cannot be
seen in the supra-dimensional heavenly realm. Therefore, the first man Adam is
a type and shadow of a last Adam (Rom 5:14),
and the history of the natural nation of Israel
in Judea forms the shadow of the Church in the
heavenly realm.
So the Key of David is not a little key that
unlocks the throne of Britain,
or identifies where descendants of the ancient house of Israel dwell at
the end of the age. It has nothing to do with mysticism, or with any allegedly essential endtime man. This Key of David isn’t given just to The Philadelphia Church, the fellowship
that has done most of the early work of unlocking the mysteries of God. Rather,
the Key of David involves using
typological exegesis to take meaning from Scripture.
Comprehending
both the text and the texture of Scripture causes born anew disciples
processing the Key of David to realize
that the focus of Hebraic poetry ultimately isn’t the linguistic objects
[signifieds]
assigned mimetically (i.e., what the words seem to describe), but the words
themselves as artifices that exist in a mental landscape analogous to the
physical geography of antediluvian Eden.
The juxtaposition of humanity’s mental topography with the regional
geography of the Near and Middle East allows human beings to see darkly into a dimension that they cannot otherwise enter to take measurements or
to make observations—allows humankind to visibly see sin [lawlessness] and death
and the landscape that must be traversed to enter into God’s rest (Ps
95:10-11). Hence, the Key of David
makes apparent the correspondence between a physically circumcised Israelite
dwelling in physical Judea, living under the laws of God written on two stone
tablets, and a spiritually circumcised Israelite observing the Sabbath, living under
the laws of God written on two fleshy tablets, with both Judea (Heb 3:19) and
the 7th-day Sabbath representing the type of [as in the geography of
Judean hillsides] God’s rest, its diminutive form (Heb 4:9-10).
The rest that Joshua gave the natural nation
(vv. 3-8) was a certain physical landscape Beyond the River Jordan whereas the rest Jesus gave the spiritual nation is the Sabbath, a copy and
shadow of entrance into the heavenly realm, a landscape beyond the physical
creation.
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As the Port Austin
Bible Center
[PABC] develops a body of scholarship based upon typological exegesis more
articles and books, audio and video files will become accessible from this
site. Until then, all of us here at PABC work to present what has been
developed since January 2002, when typology began to clarify the long muddied
waters of endtime biblical prophecies—when the seal came off “what
is inscribed in the book of truth” (Dan 10:21).
This Key of David
website is a portion of the outreach ministries of the Port Austin Bible Center, located at the geographical tip of Michigan’s Thumb.
It is here where serious Bible students come to discuss the simplicity of
typological exegesis. To make reservations, contact us through any of our
outreach ministries.
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