My opinion on the Scriptural reason for the child’s death is that the child was a ‘type’ of the anti-christ. The picture here is that God could not allow him to become king over God’s people because that is not a true type of the Messiah.
Wives who commit adultery are a ‘type’ of humanity/Israel rejecting God as their husband in favor of a satanic relationship. Men who sleep with other men’ wives take the position of satan coming between the bride and her husband (God). Either way, the offspring of such relationships can never be a type of the Messiah.
God could not allow the child of an adulterous relationship to become king because that is a false ‘type’ of the coming Messiah. The child represented the seed of satan, the antichrist, which is born of satanic adultery by the wife (Israel), dies and does not become king of God’s people. Note that the child dies on the 7th day, representing the beast being cast into the lake of fire at the end of the 7-year tribulation period.
It is the second son of David and Batsheba (the second Adam, Messiah) who becomes King over God’s people forever.
Very interesting.
I never looked at it that way before.
Another issue is that the prohibition to taking someone’s life is to not murder.
Soldiers are not charged with murder when killing enemy combatants in the line of duty. The executioner is not charged with murder when administering the death penalty at the direction of civil authorities. People are not charged with murder in the event of an accidental death or the killing of someone in self-defense.
And the prohibition against murder is for mankind.
God is the author of life. He determines the number of our days. When He, in His wisdom knowing the beginning from the end, decides that our time has come, He is not killing people. As creator He owns the right to decide when the physical, earthly life is over, but since the eternal, spiritual life is well, eternal, He didn’t really kill anyone.
In addition, it is only mankind which determines that we are all owed a long, happy, healthy, prosperous life and if someone doesn’t fully live out the length of those days in such a way, they have somehow been cheated or robbed or wronged by God somehow.
Thus we see the vapid arguments that God is bad for killing an *innocent* little baby. Based on what? That somehow that child is owed a long, happy, healthy, prosperous life?
Says who?
If all this is true, then why did this deity allow the conception of the child in the first place? Surely it was not the Devil's spawn...
So all children born out of incestuous relationships are "anti-christs", satanic offspring, only worthy of slaughter? That sounds positively Islamic...
It is the second son of David and Batsheba (the second Adam, Messiah) who becomes King over God’s people forever.
King Solomon was the "second Adam"?