II SAMUEL – LESSON 2



II SAMUEL – LESSON 2

“What Does the Davidic Covenant Mean to You?”

Kay Arthur, Teacher

What does the Davidic covenant mean to you? What does a covenant that was made approximately 3,000 years ago mean to you, for your today, and for your tomorrow? That is what we want to look at as we go to II Samuel, Chapter 7.

Go to II Samuel 7. We are looking at a passage of Scripture that is, in a sense, a watershed in prophecy. It is a watershed in prophecy, or you could call it a milestone along the path of redemption, along that crimson thread that weaves through the word of God, telling us about a redeemer that is going to come. It is my prayer today that God will take the truths that I am going to share with you, and He will connect the dots, so to speak, in an awesome way, so that you will understand exactly why this chapter is so critical in the word of God.

Go to II Samuel 7:8, and let’s connect the dots. You have done your homework, and you have seen that, although the word “covenant” is not used in II Samuel 7, we know from comparing Scripture with Scripture, from connecting the dots that relate back to this chapter, and the promise that God made to David, that this was called a covenant with David. You know David wants to build a house. David has a project in mind, a noble project. God tells him, “No,” and that can be very disappointing. (I could teach a whole lesson on that.) But God has something greater for David. God has something even more lasting than the temple which will eventually be built by his son Solomon and destroyed in 586 B.C., then rebuilt and then destroyed in 70 AD.

(8) “Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, (this is God speaking) ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be the ruler over My people Israel.” [Those of you who have studied I and II Samuel understand that. You have the picture.] (9) “I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.” [This is very significant. Everyone, even today, that has any cognizance of the word of God knows who David is.] (10) “I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly, (11) even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel;” [You know that, because you have studied Judges with us.] “and I will give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you.” [David wanted to build a literal house; God is going to make a spiritual house, so to speak, for David, a house of descendants that will eventually lead to Messiah.]

(12) “When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. (13) He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” [In other words, “You’re not going to get to build the house, but I am going to let Solomon your son build the house.” He says, “I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” You can mark that time frame. It is something that is going to last. The house won’t last, but the kingdom will last.] (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,” [But I will correct him; I will chasten him.] (15) “but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.” [Now you have studied that last week, and you studied it at the end of Samuel.] 16) “And your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.” [So here is a promise, a covenant, an oath, that God is swearing to David.] Now the parallel passage is I Chronicles 17:11-14. (I don’t want us to look at that—but beyond that.) Go to 1 Chronicles 22. I just want us to see one more insight, as we look at this promise to David. (7) “And David said to Solomon,” (This is David’s word to his son before he dies.) “My son, I had intended to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.” [Now remember, this is where the Ark of the Covenant would be, and that’s where God’s name is, is above the ark of that covenant.] (8) “But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood, and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to My name,” [We don’t know about this until we get to Chronicles, do we? We didn’t study this in the homework. But I want you to see that Samuel didn’t tell us this insight. I Chronicles 17 didn’t tell us this insight, but when we get to I Chronicles 22, we connect the dots. We find out God told him at that time, “You are a man of bloodshed.”] “because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me. (9) Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name shall be Solomon (which means peace), and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. (10) He shall build a house for My name, and he shall be My son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’ (11) Now, my son, the Lord be with you that you may be successful, and build the house of the Lord your God just as He has spoken concerning you.” [So here is a further insight that we see into this Davidic covenant.]

Now I want to take this Davidic covenant, and I want show you why it is a watershed. I want to show you why it is a milestone (a milestone would probably be better). As I do, I want us to connect the dots and see the picture that we come up with. The first dot is Genesis 3:15. Adam and Eve have sinned. And when Adam and Eve sin, and God comes, He speaks to the serpent. He speaks to the man, and He speaks to the man’s wife. He tells them the consequences of what happened. In God’s speaking to them, He says (15) “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between her seed and your seed (speaking to Satan);” [Then He tells how the woman’s seed will bruise the head of the serpent. This is the first promise of a redeemer. So next to this first dot we want to put Genesis 3:15. This is the first promise of a redeemer, someone who is going to conquer the one who usurped the throne from Adam and Eve, because Adam and Ever were to have dominion over all the face of this earth. They were to be vice-regents for God. But they lost that right to rule and reign when they became sinners, when they listened to the serpent instead of listening to God. When the serpent slayed them, as John 8:44 says, He was a murderer from the beginning,” “He is a liar,” and then Satan becomes the prince of this world, the spirit that rules over the whole world. 1 John 5:19 says, “The whole world lies in the power of the evil one.” So here, in this great picture of redemption, we have the beginning, the beginning of a promise of a redeemer.

If we would go to Genesis, Chapters 12-17, you have the promise of a seed that will come to Abraham, and in that seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed. So in the second dot, you have in Genesis, Chapters 12-17, which takes us all the way through the covenant, and the fact that your seed will be called through Isaac, and not through Ishmael. In that second dot, we have the promise of the redeemer coming through a nation. So we have the establishment of Abraham as the father of this nation, the father of the Hebrew nation. (“Hebrew” comes later on in the text.)

Then we move to Genesis 49. (I set you up for this in last week’s lesson.) We go from Abraham to Isaac, and Isaac to Jacob. Jacob has how many sons? Twelve sons who are the twelve tribes of Israel. So Jacob is about to die, and he is giving his blessings to the twelve tribes. In Genesis 49:8-12, we have, in this picture of redemption, God has moved from just a redeemer now. He’s moved from just a redeemer, and taking us up to the fact that it is going to come up through the nation. Abraham is going to be the father, and now He is going to tell us the tribe. What is the tribe? It is the tribe of Judah. (8) “Judah, your brothers shall praise you;” (10) “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes,” [and we believe there that Shiloh is a picture of the one that is promised back here in Genesis 3:15, the Messiah, the Christ, the savior of the world.]

Then we go from there to II Samuel, and when we get there, what do we have? In II Samuel, we have the Davidic covenant. We are told now (and this is why it is a watershed, so to speak.; this is why it is a milestone) because now, He has not only singled out a nation, the Hebrew nation, but a tribe, the tribe of Judah. Now in II Samuel, he has singled out the house, the house of David. So this One in Genesis 3:15 will come through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and from Jacob through Judah, and from Judah through David. So we are connecting the dots.

Now as we look at that, I want you to go to Psalm 132:10. Now I am going to show you Scriptures, and David is in almost all of these passages. (10) “For the sake of David your servant, do not turn away the face of Your anointed. The Lord has sworn to David, a truth from which He will not turn back; of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.” [From this point in history, from II Samuel on, all the way through the word of God, if you would go through a concordance, you are going to see David, David, David, David, David. You are going to see David, because back here in II Samuel 7, God made a covenant with David. And that is that through his house, and always through his house, someone would come who would sit on the throne of David for forever. Now, if it is forever, and you are a child of God, you are going to live in the kingdom of God for forever. So it concerns you. So now watch what he says.] (13) “For the Lord has chosen Zion;” [Now we saw last week that Zion was mentioned for the first time in the word of God in II Samuel 5. Now God has said, “I am going to put my throne in Zion.” This is where it is going to be, and this is the place that He has desired.] (14) “This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.”

Now go to Isaiah 7:13, as we continue to connect the dots so that it all comes together, and everything fits together, and there is understanding. You know where I am going, if you know the word of God. I am going to a prophecy, but I want you to look at this prophecy. (13) “Then he said, ‘Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men,’” [He said, “Ask me for a sign,” and He wouldn’t give them a sign. The king who was over Judah and who was of the house of David wouldn’t give him a sign.] He says, “that you will try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well? (14) Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:’” [You’re not asking me for one; I’ll give you one. This is the sign.] “Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.” [Now listen, this is another watershed. This is another major, major point. And it is another major point because He is saying that this Messiah, this one back here that is going to come, is going to come from a virgin. A virgin. So there you have the promise of the virgin birth. He is speaking this to the house of David. So the means of this redemption will be a ruler who will sit on the throne of David forever that will be born of a virgin. ]

What will His rule be? Go to Isaiah 9:6-7, “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;” [Now listen, a son is given. He can’t be born, because He is the son of God. So in the child, you’ve got deity and humanity here.] “And the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (7) There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom,” [Whose throne? David’s. And what will His government be like?] “to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness.” [So this One that is going to sit on the throne of David forever and rule the kingdom is going to do it with justice, and He is going to do it with righteousness. Who will it be? Who will it be? What will his name be?]

Go to Luke 1:30. “And the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. (31) And behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.’” [So here is the dot connected. This one that is going to crush the head of the serpent, that is going to be the seed of Abraham through which all the nations of the earth will be blessed, who will come and rule through Judah,

and the scepter will not depart from His hand, this One who is going to come from the house of David and be the son of David, this One that you and I are looking at, has a name, and His name is Jesus, His name is Yeshua, and He is the savior. He will reign.] (32) “He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; (33) and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever,” [Now what is Jacob’s other name? Israel.] “and His kingdom will have no end.” [If it has no end, then it is forever.]

Go to Romans 1:1-6. He is talking about the gospel, and how he has been, “set apart for the gospel of God, (2) which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, (3) concerning His Son,” [This gospel, this good news of redemption, of salvation, of being set free from your sins and having forgiveness of sins, and living forever, and ruling and reigning with Jesus Christ as a child of God, this good news is about Jesus.] “who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, (4) who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Go to Luke 2:11. Here is this one, and His name is Jesus. Where is He born? (11) “For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior,” [Born in the city of David a Savior. His name is Jesus, Yeshua, which means “God saves.”] Now what is Jesus going to do besides be born? Besides die, what is He going to do? I want to connect another dot.

The next dot is Mark 11:7-10. “And they brought the colt to Jesus.” [Now this is what we celebrate as Palm Sunday. This is Jesus, going into Jerusalem. His hour has come, and He is going to be crucified.] “They brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it; and He sat on it. (8) And many spread their coats in the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields. (9) And those who went in front, and those who followed, were shouting: ‘Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; (10) blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; [In other words, they knew that this one who was Yeshua, this one who was Jesus, who was named Jesus, is the one that is the King, and that is going to bring in the kingdom.] (10) “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest!”

Go to Mark, Chapter 12. In what sense is Jesus David’s son? Because, as you go through the Scriptures, as you go through the gospels, He is always being called the son of David. We know that He was born to the house of David, to the tribe of Judah, but why is He constantly referred to as the son of David? (35) “And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, ‘How is it that the scribes say that the Christ (“the Christ” is another word for Messiah, the promised One) ‘How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? (36) David himself said in the Holy Spirit, “The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand, until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet.”’” [So who is speaking to whom? God is speaking to God. God the Father, the Lord, is speaking to God the Son, the Lord, saying, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet.”] (37) “‘David himself calls Him “Lord.’” [Calls who Lord? Christ, the Messiah, Lord.] “‘and so in what sense is He his son?” And the large crowd enjoyed listening to Him.’” [Why did they enjoy listening to Him? They enjoyed listening to Him because He was causing them to think, because He was causing them to run through the Scriptures, because He was causing them to connect the dots, and see that this Christ, and you are calling Me the son of David, that this Christ, how can He be the son of David? How can He be the son of David, if He is the Christ? He is making them think; He is making them connect the dots. He is making them see that this One that is Messiah is also God. It is deity encased, enclosed, in humanity.]

In Acts 2, you have Peter bringing that wonderful sermon on the day of Pentecost when so many people come to know the Lord. As Peter brings his sermon, what do you hear him saying? (22) “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through him in your midst, just as you yourselves know – (23) this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God,” [Listen, all these dots were according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God.] “you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. (24) And God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. (25) For David says of Him, ‘I saw the Lord always in my presence; for He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.’” (27) “You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.” (29) “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.” [You don’t know where Moses tomb is, but you know where David’s tomb is.] (30) “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, (31) he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay. (32) This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses.” (34) “For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand,” [He is saying, “Connect the dot, connect the dot, because as you connect the dot, this is what you see. You see that this One that is the Christ is the one who died and rose again, and the fact that He rose again from the dead proves that He is the Christ of the house of David, of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham.]

In Acts 13:20, we have a message once again being brought to the council. Paul is speaking, and this is what he says. “After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. (21) And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. (22) And after He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’” [Are you connecting the dots? You have been studying this. These are familiar passages now. The light has come on, and we know these things.] (23) “From the descendants of this man, according to promise, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus.” (32) “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, (33) that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’ (34) And as for the fact that He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’” [Listen, He buried him, He crucified Him because of his sin, He buried Him because the wages of sin is death; but He raised him from the dead. He was raised again because of our justification, because God’s holiness was propitiated and satisfied. He raised Him from the dead, and because He raised Him from the dead, then He can give us the holy and sure blessings of David. So that is what we see there.]

Today, I want us to connect the past with the present, so that it can change our future, so that as you live in the knowledge of the truth of God’s covenant with David, you keep the fact that you have a savior. You have a savior that has died for your sin. You have a savior that has been buried, but you have a savior that has risen again. He has conquered death. He has paid for our sins, and He is coming again to rule and reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and you and I will rule and reign with Him. That’s the past. For the present, so that we know how to live because of the light of the future. We connect the dots.

In Acts 15:15, we have an understanding in this passage that there is going to be a lapse of time when there is not going to be a man sitting on the throne of David. There is going to be a lapse of time when there is not going to be a man sitting on the throne of David. (15) “And with this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written, (16) ‘After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen, and I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, (17) so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name,’ (18) says the Lord, who makes these things known from long ago.” [Now you say, “That is complicated.” It is, and I want you to go with me to Amos 9.]

Go to Amos 9:11. This is what he is quoting in Acts. He is connecting the dots. He says, “In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, and wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old;” (14) “Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; they will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their fruit. (15) I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them,” says the Lord your God.” [Now is that present, or is that future? It is future. He is planting them now; they will never be uprooted. Listen to me very carefully. This is a complicated passage, but what He’s showing them in Acts 15 is, “Hey, now is the time of the Gentiles.” This is why He mentions the nations, and He mentions the Gentiles. You can go back and look at Acts 15:15-19, and see that there will be a lapse, but that lapse, when someone is not sitting on the throne of David, is a lapse that gives the Gentiles time to be saved.

In Revelation 3:7, it tells us that He is the one who has the key of David. He determines who is going to enter into His kingdom. In Revelation 5:4-10, He tells us what He is going to do. What is this One who is going to sit on the throne of David going to do? (5) “and one of the elders said to me, ‘Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah,” [We have connected that dot.] “the Root of David,” [We have connected that dot.] “has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.” [So what we know now is this: He is standing there with the seven sealed scroll. When those seals are broken, the judgment of God comes upon the face of this earth. You have the seals, you have the trumpets, you have the bowls; and you have the coming of Messiah, the second time, to rule and reign as King of Kings. So what we see in Revelation 5:4-10, is that He is going to execute vengeance on His enemies, even as David did in 2 Samuel 8. In 2 Samuel 8, he lays them down, right? He comes along, and He puts a certain number of those enemies to death, and a certain number live. He is the one who has the keys to His kingdom. He determines who is going to live. He determines who is going to die. He says, “I shut, and nobody can open. I open, and no one can shut.”

Go to Jeremiah 30. Jeremiah 30 lets us know this that, “All right, between His first coming and His second coming, (lets put another dot up here) what we see is that not only is He going to bring vengeance upon the nations, but He is going to bring a time of trouble to Jacob. Who is Jacob? Israel. (5) “For thus says the Lord, ‘I have heard a sound of terror, of dread, and there is no peace. (6) Ask now, and see, if a male can give birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?’” [They used birthing stools in those days. “Why do I see a man as if he is in labor in that terrible distress?”] (7) “Alas! for that day is great, there is none like it; and it is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved from it.” (9) “But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.” [There is a day coming after Jacob’s distress when they will serve the Lord. Judah will be saved.]

Go to Hosea 3:4. “For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. (5) Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.” [In this time of Jacob’s distress they are going to seek the Lord.]

Go to Zechariah 12:7. Now when they seek the Lord, Judah is going to be saved. (So let’s get this dot on the board.) (7) “The Lord also will save the tents (now watch the order) of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah.” [Why? Because it has to come from Judah, and then David.] (8) “In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them.” [Then he goes on, and you can read it later.]

Look at Zechariah 13:1. “In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.” [What is he saying? He is saying they are going to have an opportunity to be saved. Now, as you go on and you read in this chapter, you see that he is going to take them through the fire, and two-thirds will be destroyed in the fire, but there will be one-third, a faithful remnant, that will come out of that fire that will be saved.]

Go to Jeremiah 33:14. I know I am going fast, but you can go home and you can think about this; you can get the tape and listen to it. Just wait on the Lord, and He will connect the dots. It will all come to light, especially as we continue to study. (14) “‘Behold, days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah. (15) In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth. (16) In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell in safety;’” (17) “For thus says the Lord, ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;’” [So what you have again is a reminder of 2 Samuel 7, that Davidic covenant.] (20) “Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day, and My covenant for the night,’” (21) “‘ then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne,’” [But can you break that covenant? No, you can not.] (25) “Thus says the Lord, ‘If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established, (26) then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’” [Do you see the connection of the dots? Here is Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; here is Judah, and from Judah here is David, the foundation of all this truth.]

Go to Revelation 19:11. Here is our next dot. We see here that the King will come, and the King will take His throne. (This is one without David in it.) (11) “And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. (12) And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. (13) And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God.” (16) “And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Go back to Zechariah 14:3. “Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as when he fights on a day of battle. (4) And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,” (9) “And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one.” [What do you have? You have Him sitting on whose throne? On David’s throne. You have the descendant from the house of David. Will David again be king? Who will sit with Him, as He sits on this throne? What are we going to see?] I want us to look at Ezekiel 37:21. God says, “Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; (22) and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them;” (24) “And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd;” [What is happening, beloved? Are the dots connecting? What does this mean to you and me? It means this, that when God swears something, when God makes a covenant, when God swears by Himself by an oath, you and I can know that He will keep that. So as we go through this book, as we have connected the dots just on David, as you go through and learn His Scriptures, precept upon precept, you’re going to connect the dots, precious one. And when you connect the dots, what you are going to see is truth that is for you today for all your tomorrows, because your tomorrows are in the hands of a covenant keeping God.]

Just stop, and go back with me for a minute to Ezekiel 37, because I want you to see, as we look at this is—what am I coming up with? What do you see being formed here? If I added two more dots, what do you see? You would see a throne, a throne on which Jesus, the Lamb of God, will reign, the Lamb of God from the lion of the tribe of Judah, and the root of David. That is what we see. So let’s go back and look, and let me show you one thing. This is for you to think about; this is for you to consider. Ezekiel 37:23b, (the last sentence) “And they will be My people, and I will be their God (speaking about the house of Israel and the house of Judah, two sticks that He makes into one). (24) “And My servant David will be king over them,” [This One that sits on His throne, what is He? He is the King of Kings. So who is going to rule underneath Him? I believe that David will be resurrected, and David will be one of the kings that will rule under Him, and he will rule over Israel.] (24) “My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes, and observe them. (25) And they will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant,” [We saw that prophecy.] (26) “I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever. (27) My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. (28) And the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.” [When my house, that David wanted to be built, will be built, and it will be the new temple, the new and final temple.]

Go to Matthew 19:27. When He comes, who will sit on His glorious throne with Him? (27) “Then Peter said to Him (Jesus), “Behold, we have left everything and followed You;” (28) “And Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.’” [You have David over Israel, and you have the twelve apostles over the twelve tribes of Israel.]

Go to Revelation 5:10. You and I will be reigning and ruling with Him, because He says about those who have been redeemed by Jesus blood, (10) “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.” [So we have David, we have the twelve apostles, and we have us ruling and reigning with Him. The question is, my beloved, is this true? Have you connected the dots correctly? Is this really true? Well, listen to the words of Jesus, in Revelation 22:16. “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.” [I am the root and the descendant of David. That covenant that He made will be fulfilled to the very letter, and you and I will reign with Him.]

Awesome, isn’t it? When you think of it, when you just stop and think of it, then you take 2 Samuel 7, in its context, and you go back to the chapter before, and what do you see? They are moving the ark, and God kills Uzzah. God kills Uzzah, because Uzzah stretches out his hand to keep the ark from falling. David is angry. He goes back to the Lord, and what does 1 Chronicles 15:13 say? David says this, “His anger came upon me, upon us, because we didn’t seek Him according to His ordinances, because, we didn’t seek Him the proper way.” [We have the word of God. We’re connecting the dots. It’s making sense, but as we do, as we look at this Davidic covenant, as we look at the fact that it has been fulfilled to the letter up to our day, and all that remains is for Him to take His throne.]

As we look at that Davidic covenant, and as we look at the moving of the ark, we have to know this; God’s word is sure, so I had better obey Him. I had better seek Him the proper way. I had better live according to His precepts, according to His statutes, according to His ordinances. And then when you move over, and you see 2 Samuel 9, and you see the story of Mephibosheth, and you see Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, lame in both feet, being called into the presence of the king, and trembling because he heard a rumor. The rumor went out that no blind or lame or deaf would ever come into the city of David. It was a distortion of something that had been said. It was a statement taken out of context. This man, Mephibosheth, was ignorant of the covenant, not the Davidic covenant (it hadn’t been made yet), but ignorant of the covenant that David had made with Jonathan, trembled and lived in a barren place, in hiding, all his life in Lo-debar, until the king summoned him. He was nothing but a dead dog, a piece of garbage. He walks into the presence of the king, and he prostrates himself before him, not knowing what to expect, because he never connected the dots. He never understood. He was ignorant of the covenant that David had made with Jonathan to protect his house. All those years he lived in hiding. He was even lame, because, in ignorance, when running away, ignorant of the covenant, running away to hide from David, he became lame in both feet. Do you see the awesome grace of God? David raises up Mephibosheth. He says to Mephibosheth, “You shall dine at my table all the time. I will restore to you everything that you lost. Ziba will be your servant and all his sons, and I will restore to you everything that you lost that belongs to the house of Saul.” They were restored, and Mephibosheth dined in the house the king, day in and day out, but he was still lame in both feet. What a picture of the grace of God!

We were ignorant of the covenant. We ran away from God, thinking that we had to protect ourselves, thinking that we should be ruling our lives, and we became lame and lived in a barren spot. And that is what I did, until the king summoned me, and on that day that He summoned me, and I prostrated myself before Him, acknowledging my sin, that I was worthless; then He raised me up. “Come and dine,” the Master calleth, “come and dine.” You can feast at Jesus’ table any time. He who fed the multitudes, turned the water into wine, bids his hungry children, “Come and dine.” That’s what we have been doing. We have been dining on the word of God, connecting the dots, and I pray that as we continue to study, more and more the light will go on, and more and more you will add His truths, so to speak, to your vocabulary, to your storehouse of knowledge.

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