Jeroboam antichrist

The latest PoI post was about Jeroboam. Here are some things the Bible reveals about this character. I will try to remain concise.

The beginning of the thread starts in Revelation.

Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

Satan is a great mimicker of the Lord Jesus Christ. The student of the Bible will immediately recognize that truism. He is such a fanatic copycat (read copy-roaring lion 1Peter 5:8) that he is going to mimic the resurrection. Now Scofield will take that verse and talk about the rebirth of the Roman Empire. And he is not wrong. But the verse is primarily about the person of the Antichrist. The wound of Revelation 13:3 was prophesied by

Zechariah 11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean DRIED UP, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Just like “the Christ” of Matthew 16:16 is contrasted with “that antichrist” of 1 John 2:18 ,
“the good shepherd” of John 10:11,14 is contrasted with the “idol shepherd” of Zechariah 11:17

Something is going to happen to the antichrist that’s going to take out his right eye (THAT'S A WOUND TO THE HEAD) and dry up his arm, but he will recover and present that as a resurrection to the world.

Now, Zechariah says about his arm that it will be “DRIED UP”

Compare that to

1Kings 13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, DRIED UP, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

nice fit wouldn't you say?

Now let’s zoom in.

1Ki 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.

The hand that dries up is that hand which is lifted up against “the king”!
People who are weary of the character of Solomon will appreciate that the Bible employs “the king” instead of Solomon here.
Now, if Solomon’s reign is a type of the millennial reign of Jesus Christ, then Jeroboam is all the more a type of the antichrist, for Jesus Christ will also have a subversive adversary at the end of his reign just like Solomon had in the person of Jeroboam.
You can work in many prophetic parallels here.

(Gog and Magog is prominent in the end-of-millennium rebellion, see note 1 below)

further common points between Jeroboam and antichrist

Elected by the people

1Kings 12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

Notice there’s a faithful remnant, just like there is when the antichrist rules.

God’s anointed

1Kings 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

Zechariah 11:16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land


Mimic true religion

1Kings 12:28-33

Just like the antichrist will do, temple and all, mimicking even the resurrection


Associated with Dan

1Kings 12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

I don’t have time here to explain the many associations between Dan and the antichrist but the student of the Bible will acknowledge the import.

punishment by scorpions

1Kings 12:14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Revelation 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

[ Note 1: you may further observe that Jeroboam’s arm is dried up subsequent to “the word of the Lord” (1 Kings 13:1) which is “the sword of the Spirit” (Ephesians 6:17) and you have “the sword” in Zechariah 11:17 drying up the hand.
If I were NOW to guess what and when is the occasion of the dealing of that blow to the antichrist, I would associate it with the Ezekiel 38 attack of Gog, more specifically 38:21 “And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD”, which attack seems to happen in the midst of the tribulation (coming in from the north, where Dan’s lot is...), when the antichrist breaks his covenant of peace with the Jew, and which attack is NOT Armageddon.
But I’ve barely begun to scratch that surface and so will proceed no further at this point. Any input is appreciated.]


[Note 2: Another point helps to see that the idol shepherd is the antichrist.

Here things get complicated.

In the preceding verses of Zechariah, you have a reference to Judas Iscariot

Zechariah 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.


Judas, like the “idol shepherd”, is also “anointed”

John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

Whereas Jeroboam lifts up his hand against the king (see above), Judas lifts up his heel

Psalm 41:9 fulfilled in John 13:18

In a brazen attempt to REVERSE and PERVERSE Genesis 3:15!

Now, those of view who understand that the antichrist will be Judas back with a vengeance, will find in the fact that Zechariah prophecies in the same breath about Judas and the idol shepherd (vss.12-17) a new argument which I don’t think Pink mentions in his famous article, plus also that “Judas” is a mimic of “Judah”!

Link: http://www.biblebelievers.com/awpink001.html

[note 3: an interesting study would be trying to match the darkening of the idol shepherd's eye. please share what the Lord may reveal to you.]