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God's Covenant with David
God's Covenant with David
We looked at this a few days ago, but our reading schedule has us read this a 2nd time. It is a central part of the whole Messianic plan.
God would make a 'house for David': not a physical dwelling place, but a family of descendants: the 'house of David' (vs. 11).
When: when David was dead and in the grave (vs. 12). Thus Peter's great affirmation in Acts 2: "Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. “And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne, he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay." (Acts 2:29–31).
This descendant of David would build a house for God (again, as with David's house, this is seen to be a family line and not a physical dwelling place). HENCE, through Jesus we are made into a spiritual house, a family of God, the very children of God (Gal. 3:26-29).
God would establish the kingdom to the descendant of David - and eternal kingdom (13). Jesus was raised and glorified; He is king of king and has all authority in heaven and earth. We who believe have been transported into His kingdom (Col. 1:13; Rev. 1:6, 9).
He would be the son of God and God would be His father (14). Jesus is the son of God that was promised - Matt. 3:17; Matt. 17:5; Rom. 1:4; John 20:30-31; etc.).
BUT what about the sin part in vs. 14?
"“I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men," (2 Samuel 7:14).
If we compare this with the promise as given in Psalm 89, we can see that it applies to those descendants that connect David to Jesus - the lineage that was needed to get from David to Jesus.
29 “So I will establish his descendants forever
And his throne as the days of heaven.
30 “If his sons forsake My law
And do not walk in My judgments,
31 If they violate My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,
32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod
And their iniquity with stripes.
The kings of Judah that followed David were all in the linage of Jesus, but many of them were evil and forsook the law of God. God, true to His word, disciplined the strongly for such rebellion; such discipline included the Babylonian captivity and an interruption of the throne but NOT an end to the line of David.
Then we come to the New Testament: "The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:" (Matthew 1:1). God did NOT remove the right of rule from the family of David and give it to another as He did with the house of Saul!
Jesus, the son of David, is the eternal king sitting upon the throne of David and ruling not just Judah, but heaven and earth. Will you serve our King or be found in rebellion? God is faithful, are we? Hugh DeLong
