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发帖数: 3781 | 1 By Pastor Kelly Sensenig
Of course, the ultimate promise and fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant is t
hat the house (David's posterity) would actually rule with Christ forever in
the kingdom. There would be a group of Jewish brethren in the future who wo
uld rule with Christ forever and forever ("thine house shall be established
forever"). Someday God will bring His people ("house") into the Promised Lan
d and they will reign with Christ forever with Christ as their King (See Luk
e 1:33). Jesus will reign over His house forever and forever. God is not fin
ished with His people! He is going to bless their house forever and forever.
2. An eternal kingdom (2 Samuel 7:16 - a kingdom forever)
The second major promise God made to David was, "thy kingdom shall be establ
ished forever before thee" (v. 16). A kingdom refers to an earthly sphere of
rule over a political body of people.
There is a present promise (the kingdom will always have the potential to be
restored) and a prophetic promise (it will last forever when it is restored
).
Present Promise
This promise presupposes (assumes) that David's posterity (Israel) will alwa
ys possess the legal right to inherit a literal, earthly kingdom that will n
ever be taken from them. God pledged that David's kingdom would never pass a
way permanently, even though it might not function at all times. Indeed, it
was interrupted when Judah was finally taken into exile (2 Kings 25:1-21). I
t is a fact of history that David's kingdom has not functioned at all times
since God made this promise. But this divine pledge was a guarantee that Dav
id's kingdom on earth would always have the potential of being restored to f
ull function in the future. Temporary interruption and even postponement of
a kingdom program does not mean that is annulled.
Because of this guarantee of the Davidic Covenant, Jews who lived centuries
after David's kingdom had ceased to function, still clung to the hope of tha
t kingdom's restoration. Thus, when Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jeru
salem on Palm Sunday, throngs of Jews cried out, "Blessed be the kingdom of
our father, David, that cometh in the name of the Lord" (see Mark 11:10). Is
rael and the Jews believed what God has said in the Davidic Covenant. The pe
ople were waiting for the coming of David's son to sit on David's throne and
rule over David's house (posterity or people). To deny this is to deny unde
niable facts recorded in Scripture! When Jesus was ready to ascend to Heaven
, His disciples asked if He would restore the kingdom again at that time. Se
e Acts 1:6 - When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, sayi
ng, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? The pr
omise to the Jewish people is that they will always have the right to posses
s a literal, earthly kingdom and this right will never be taken from David's
posterity. |
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