WT= The Peg of Shebna?

I wanted to ask you if you have ever studied about the "peg of Shebna"? The bible talks about 2 pegs. The first one, Shebna was the "stewart over the household of God". Is. 22:16 says that this peg; on a height had hewed out for itself his burial place in a crag he is cutting out a residence for himself. He apparently became haughty. Then it says Jehovah will violently hurl him down and push him away from his position. Then Eliakim will recieve the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, and he well be driven into a lasting place and will be the glory of his father. Interestingly Shebna...is still allowed to be a secretary as in Is. 36:3. I am thinking Shebna is the WT and got hurled down maybe when Rutherford took over and then possibly became like a secretary. But soon Jesus (Eliakim) take over and recieve the throne. What do you think??

The account is in Is. 22:15 - 25

I think your interpretation is a bit of a stretch, to put it mildly. To say that the Society was 'thrown down' when Rutherford took over makes about as much sense that Satan was 'hurled down' to the earth in 1914, or that the two-horned wild beast suffered a death stroke during WW1.

The pegs surely just applied to the characters back then, Shebna and Eliakim, or whoever it was.

coffee_black

The watchtower is not significant enough to be center stage in any prophecy. We care about the effects of involvement with the organization because it has effected our lives or the lives of those we love. Other than that, it's a "pimple on an elephant's behind" as my bf likes to say. Members of the wt think the world revolves around the organization. It doesn't.

Coffee

Star Moore

Then maybe the peg of Shebna is Christendom????

Narkissos

Exceptionally I agree with yaddayadda:

The pegs surely just applied to the characters back then, Shebna and Eliakim, or whoever it was.

They lived and died about 2,700 years ago.

The whole Adventist/Russellist/JW type-antitype pattern is one pretty sick way to read the Bible imo.

LDH

Who in the world has the time to dissect an obscure sentence from some sand bunnies that was written thousands of years ago?!?!?!?

Here is a hint: to the contrary of what you have been taught by the JWs, not everything has a 'typical' and an 'anti-typical' application.

Lisa

peacefulpete

Just for fun I did a google of this Shebna passage and found that the Catholic Church uses it as a type of the Papacy, that is, prophetic of its formation and endurance. Kinda familiar isn't it.

Anyway it is interesting that 1rst Isaiah seems to be predicting Shebna would lose his high rank and be replaced by Eliakim who would live and serve the King for years of glory.

" 17 'Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you headlong, O man.

And He is about to grasp you firmly

18 And roll you tightly like a ball,

To be (Z) cast into a vast country;

There you will die

And there your splendid chariots will be,

You shame of your master's house.'

19 "I will (AA) depose you from your office,

And I will pull you down from your station.

20 "Then it will come about in that day,

That I will summon My servant (AB) Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

21 And I will clothe him with your tunic

And tie your sash securely about him.

I will entrust him with your authority,

And he will become a (AC) father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

22 "Then I will set (AD) the key of the (AE) house of David on his shoulder,

When he opens no one will shut,

When he shuts no one will (AF) open.

23 "I will drive him like a (AG) peg in a firm place,

And he will become a (AH) throne of glory to his father's house.

24 "So they will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, offspring and issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.

This section, if by Isaiah, must predate his predictions about Jerusalem and Judah being conquered.

WT= The Peg of Shebna?

Star Moore

The account is in Is. 22:15 - 25

yaddayadda

coffee_black

Star Moore

Narkissos

LDH

peacefulpete

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