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Husbands
and wives often wage a war for control. It is actually a selfish
lust for control. The struggle is not limited to parents, because
it also occurs between parents and their children. God wants
us to have a different attitude. God wants wives to submit to
their husbands (Eph. 5:22), husbands are to love their wives
in a sacrificial way (Eph. 5:25) and children are to submit
to their parents (Eph. 6:1). The concept of mutual submission
frequently heard today is in error. It is the view of our culture.
It is not of God.
Verse 6.
When we arrive at verse 6, both Ptolemy I Soter and Seleucus
I Nicator have died and the two empires are in conflict. So
in 250 B.C. Antiochus II Soter and Ptolemy II Philadelphus agree
to a peace treaty by an arranged marriage. Ptolemy II had agreed
that his teenage daughter Bernice would marry Antiochus II.
Consequently, Antiochus divorced his wife Laodice and married
Bernice. Some time later Ptolemy II died and Antiochus remarried
Laodice, who then killed Antiochus, Bernice and those who came
with Bernice from Egypt.
What
does verse 6 say would happen? The passage says that an alliance
would take place. The peaceful arrangement would be carried
out when the daughter of the king of the south went to the king
of the north. But she would die later along with those who came
with her. The king would die and her father - “sired her”
- would die. This prophecy agrees with history very accurately.
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