Prophecy Of Solomon

The Prophecy Of Solomon

This is cryptic on many levels and requires you to think of the meanings as I will not explain the answer.

Explaining will not help you unless you have all of the background knowledge that is required as a foundation to understand what is written below.

It would take many pages to explain the text below so please just view this as what happens when someone is full of pride and vanity.

FYI: Solomon was NOT the wisest king and his vanity proves this.

If he was, then he would have known the adage, "This too shall pass".

The Prophecy of King Solomon ↟↟

Great and powerful as King Solomon was, and wise and just, still occasions were not lacking to bring home to him the truth that the wisest and mightiest of mortals may not indulge in pride and arrogance.

King Solomon had a precious piece of tapestry - a magic carpet of sixty miles square - on which he flew through the air so swiftly that he could eat breakfast in Damascus and supper in Media.

To carry out his orders he had at his beck and call Asaph ben Berechiah among men, Ramirat among demons, the lion among beasts, and the eagle among birds.

Once it happened that pride possessed King Solomon while he was sailing through the air on his carpet, and he said: "There is none like me in the world, upon whom God has bestowed sagacity, wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge, besides making me the ruler of the world."

The same instant the air stirred, and forty thousand men dropped from the magic carpet.

The king ordered the wind to cease from blowing, with the word: "Return".

Whereupon the wind: "If you will return to God, and subdue your pride, I, too, will return."

The king realized his transgression.

On one occasion he strayed into the valley of the ants in the course of his wanderings in far off Iraq.

He heard one ant order all the others to withdraw, to avoid being crushed by the armies of King Solomon.

The king halted and summoned the ant that had spoken.

She told him that she was the queen of the ants, and she gave her reasons for the order of withdrawal.

King Solomon wanted to put a question to the ant queen, but she refused to answer unless the king took her up and placed her on his hand.

He acquiesced, and then he put his question: "Is there any one greater than I am in all the world?"

"Yes," said the ant.

King Solomon: "Who?"

Ant: "I am."

King Solomon: "How is that possible?"

Ant: "Were I not greater than thou, God would not have led thee hither to put me upon your hand."

Exasperated, King Solomon threw her to the ground, and said: "You know who I am?

I am King Solomon, the son of David."

Not at all intimidated, the ant reminded the king of his earthly origin, and admonished him to humility, and the king went off abashed.

Next he came to a magnificent building, into which he sought to enter in vain - he could find no door leading into it.

After long search the demons came upon an eagle seven hundred years old, and he, unable to give them any information, sent him to his nine hundred years old brother, whose nest was higher than his own, and who would probably be in a position to advise them.

But he in turn directed them to go to his still older brother.

His age counted thirteen hundred years, and he had more knowledge than himself.

This oldest one of the eagles reported that he remembered having heard his father say there was a door on the west side, but it was covered up by the dust of the ages that had passed since it was last used.

So it turned out to be.

They found an old iron door with the inscription: "We, the dwellers in this palace, for many years lived in comfort and luxury - then, forced by hunger, we ground pearls into flour instead of wheat but to no avail, and so, when we were about to die, we bequeathed this palace to the eagles."

A second statement contained a detailed description of the wonderful palace, and mentioned where the keys for the different chambers were to be found.

Following the directions on the door, King Solomon inspected the remarkable building, whose apartments were made of pearls and precious stones.

Inscribed on the doors he found the following three wise proverbs, dealing with the vanity of all earthly things, and admonishing men to be humble:

1. O son of man, let not time deceive thee - you must wither away, and leave your place, to rest in the bosom of the earth.

2. Haste thee not, move slowly, for the world is taken from one and bestowed upon another.

3. Furnish thyself with (spiritual) food for the journey, prepare your meal while daylight lasts, for you will not remain on earth forever, and you know not the day of your death.

In one of the chambers, King Solomon saw a number of statues, among them one that looked as though alive.

When he approached it, it called out in a loud voice: "Hither, ye deceivers, King Solomon has come to undo you."

Suddenly there arose great noise and tumult among the statues.

King Solomon pronounced the Name, and quiet was restored.

The statues were overthrown, and the sons of the deceivers ran into the sea and were drowned.

From the throat of the life like statue he drew a silver plate inscribed with characters which he could not decipher, but a youth from the desert told the king: "These letters are Greek, and the words mean: 'I, Shadad ben Ad, ruled over a thousand thousand provinces, rode on a thousand thousand horses, had a thousand thousand kings under me, and slew a thousand thousand heroes, and when the Angel of Death approached me, I was powerless.'"