Re: promise to David
God was there King, and law giver, but they wanted a man, so sad.
Howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of
the king that shall reign over them” (1 Samuel 8:7-9).
“Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee:
for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Saul was their first human king. but rejected by God (2 Samuel 2
David succeeded Saul. David sat on the Eternal’s throne.
David’s son Solomon succeeded him, also sitting on the Eternal’s throne.
1 Chronicles 29:23
23Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father,
2 Chronicles 9:8)
Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne,
to be king for the Lord thy God:
because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever,
therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
Jesus is both the “root” and the “offspring” of David (Revelation 22:16).
Since He was the “root,” the throne was His before David was born.
David merely sat upon the Eternal’s throne.
Secondly, since Jesus was David’s lawful fleshly Son,
this same throne shall once more become His right by inheritance, continuing David’s dynasty
2 Samuel 23:1, 5
1“Now these be the last words of David. … God …
5Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me
an [everlasting covenant], [ordered in all things, and sure]:
for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
“And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying,
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? …
[W]hen thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee,
which shall proceed out of thy bowels [Solomon], and I will establish [his] kingdom.
He shall build an house for my name,
and I will stablish the throne of [his kingdom] for ever.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
If he commit iniquity, I will chasten (him) with (the rod of men), and with the stripes of the children of men:
- if he commit iniquity, would chasten them by taking
there name,land and idenity away, God did not renig on
the septer and birthright and other promises to Abraham.
The punishment for disobedience would be chastening at the hands of men.
But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee:
thy shall be established for ever” (2 Samuel 7:4-5, 12-16).
was established forever in Solomon , this does not say that when Christ comes.
if David’s throne ceased from existence, at King Zedekiah,
even for the length of one generation,
could we say it had been established forever as God here promised?
400 years before Jesus was born from mary,
we see the crown no more, where did it go ?
12He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Christ did not take over davids physical throne, thats what people where looking for.
He comes back in power to take over the kingdom.