Spoke 10

II Samuel, Jonah, I Timothy

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

Spoke 10, Cycle 1
(II Samuel 5.1f)

Otto I, The Great

Otto I, "the Great," was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire  by Pope John XII (though the term "holy" was not added until the Thirteenth Century). Otto chose to have the cermony conducted at Aachen, built by Charlemagne in the Eighth Century as a sign that he was continuing the Carolingian  legacy. Many dukes of the realm served him a great banguet to show the German unity. This was the beginning of the first "German Reich" in the line that culminated in Hitler's failed attempt to form the Third Reich.

The Empire was strongly allied with the Roman Catholic Church. Papal approval and coronation was required for the elected "king of the Romans" to become "Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire." The relation between Church and Empire was often tumultuous, with many German kings such as Henry IV  and Frederick I  opposing the Pope because of inevitable political differences between the German Emperors and Italian Popes.

The rise of the Holy Roman Empire in the Tenth Century corresponds to David's ascent to the Throne in II Samuel. Its zenith of power in the following few centuries corresponds to the books of Kings and Chronicles that are filled with the history of the Kings of Israel and Judah. Its decline around the Thirteenth Century is described by Dr. Harold Damerow , the Senior Professor of Government and History at Union County College, in his article on the Holy Roman Empire :

While the Holy Roman Empire survived until 1806 when the self-made Emperor Napoleon I of France finally abolishes it, the Empire became a weak confederation of ultimately more than 300 independent little states. ... Just as France and England emerged as powerful monarchical states in the thirteenth century, the Holy Roman Empire went into decline.

This means that the correlation between the history of the Kings of Israel that begins on Spoke 9 and follows through to Spoke 14 corresponds almost exactly with that of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Eternal King

The Crown of the Holy Roman Empire was built with eight hinged panels with pictures of King David (II Samuel), King Solomon (I Kings), King Hezekiah (II Kings) and Christ the Eternal King. This integrates with the content of Spoke 10 and the great theme of God the Eternal King, which forms a strong link between I Timothy (Spoke 10, Cycle 3) and Psalm 10 based on the set (King, "for ever and ever") ^[Verify] which is a near KeyLink, selecting only one other verse than these two:

All of this finds its origin in Genesis 10 which contains the first appearance of the word "kingdom" in the Bible.

Alphabetic Integration

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. [Psalm 2]

When read backwards, the four central letters of the Herbew Alphabet - Yod, Kaph, Lamed, Mayim - spell the word (Malki, My King), used above in Psalm 2 in direct reference to David and prophetic reference to Christ. It is therefore a great wonder to behold the books corresponding to these letters spanning the time when David ascended to the throne unto the last mention of his death in I Chronicles 29.26:

Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead. Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer, With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

As mentioned above, the Imperial Crown, which was probably made for King Otto I in the Tenth Century, has images of the three greatest Kings in the history of Israel and Judah. The rule of these three Kings began with King David in the 10^th and progressed sequentially with King Solomon in the 11^th Book and King Hezekiah in the 12^th. All of this is integrated with the order of the Canon, the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the course of World History:

MALKI (My King)
Yod	Kaph	Lamed	Mayim
II Samuel	I Kings	II Kings	I Chronicles
10th King David	11th King Solomon	12th King Hezekiah	13th (repetition)

Historians call the time period spanned by the middle letters of the Hebrew Alphabet the Middle Ages, when the Kings rule their kingdoms. This is the Wisdom of Almighty God, who determines the course of the nations and the flow of the centuries.

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