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LESSON 4
The Abrahamic promise runs through the Old and New Covenants as a thread, binding the two together, joining the laws and the genealogies. There was only one genealogy through whom the promised seed would come. It would be the tribe of Judah and the family of King David. That is why so much emphasis is given in the New Testament to Jesus being in the family of David, a direct descendant of and heir to the throne of this great king. Consider carefully these points.
KING DAVID IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
AND HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THE ABRAHAMIC PROMISE
INTRODUCTION:
TO UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ABRAHAM AND DAVID, FIRST READ GENESIS 49:8-12, THEN NOTE THE IMPORTANCE OF SHILOH, "TO BE AT REST, TO BE IN PEACE AND PROSPERITY; SO THE PACIFICATOR, OR PRINCE OF PEACE...WHO WOULD DESTROY THE DOMINION AND RULE OF SATAN. SIGNIFIES A CONQUEROR TO WHOM ALL THINGS SUCCEED WELL AND HAPPILY."
ISAIAH 9:6, PRINCE OF PEACE. cf. LUKE 19: 38, 42
DANIEL 9: 25, THE MESSIAH IS THE PRINCE
ACTS 3:15; 5:31, JESUS IS THE PRINCE AND THE MESSIAH.
(1)DAVID IS SON OF ABRAHAM.
MATTHEW 1:1, 6, 17; LUKE 2:4, 11; 3:31
DAVID IS SON OF ABRAHAM, SON OF JESSE AND FATHER OF SOLOMON AND NATHAN. HE WAS BORN IN THE CITY OF BETHLEHEM, THE BIRTH CITY OF OUR LORD.
GENESIS 49: 10, DAVID'S TRIBE (JUDAH) WAS TO MAINTAIN THE SCEPTER, PRODUCE THE LAWGIVER, AND BRING FORTH SHILOH. THIS HAD TO COME THROUGH DAVID'S FAMILY LINE.
(2)DAVID'S LIFE SUMMARIZED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
ACTS 13: 22, SUCCEEDED SAUL AS KING.
ACTS 13: 36, DAVID DIED AND HIS TOMB IS STILL WITH US.
(3)LESSON'S FROM DAVID
MATTHEW 12: 3, DAVID ATE THE SHEWBREAD IN THE TEMPLE. (GOD WILL NOT ALLOW HIS PEOPLE TO PERISH DUE TO RESTRICTIONS OF THE LAW WHEN THERE IS AT HIS DISPOSAL THEIR NECESSITIES FOR LIFE.)
MARK 12: 36, DAVID HIMSELF SAID BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, 'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, TIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL.' TWO QUESTIONS CAN BE ASKED: (1) IF JESUS IS DAVID'S SON, HOW IS IT DAVID CALLS HIM LORD? (2) IF JESUS IS DAVID'S LORD, HOW IS IT HIS LORD CAN BE CALLED THE SON OF DAVID SON?
HEBREWS 11: 32-40, HALL OF FAITH. DAVID OBTAINED THE PROMISE. WHAT PROMISE? (cf. ZECHARIAH 8:14).
ACTS 7: 46, DAVID FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD. HE ASKED TO BUILD GOD A HOUSE, BUT GOD PROMISED INSTEAD TO BUILD HIM A HOUSE. (cf. 1 CHRONICLES 17: 10-14, 25.)
ACTS 15: 16, TABERNACLE OF DAVID REBUILT SO, "REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD" - INCLUDES ALL GENTILES.
HEBREWS 4: 7, DAVID SPOKE OF IMPORTANCE OF NOT HARDENING HEARTS.
(4)RELATIONSHIP OF DAVID TO THE ABRAHAMIC PROMISE.
ACTS 13: 34, JESUS' RESURRECTION WAS TO FULFILL THE PROMISES TO ABRAHAM AND DAVID (READ VERSES 32-35). cf. ISAIAH 55: 3.
(5)JESUS IS SON OF DAVID. (CALLED "SON OF DAVID" 9 TIMES)
MATTHEW 1: 20, JOSEPH IS SON OF DAVID. JESUS IS SON OF JOSEPH.
LUKE 1: 27, JOSEPH WAS OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
LUKE 1:32, "HE WILL BE CALLED SON OF THE HIGHEST; GOD WILL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID. AND HE WILL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB...FOREVER...OF HIS KINGDOM THERE WILL BE NO END." (NOTE: THE GOSPEL IS GOD'S NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. cf. LUKE 22:20, 38-30. ISRAEL IS NOW A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM, NOT A FLESHLY ONE.)
JOHN 7: 42, SCRIPTURE IS FULFILLED. JESUS IS FROM BETHLEHEM.
READ: MATTHEW 9:27; 15: 22; 20: 30-31; 21: 15; MARK 10: 47-48; 12: 35; LUKE 1: 27; 18: 38-39; 20: 41-45.
(6)PROPHECY OF DAVID REFERRING TO JESUS.
MARK 12: 36, DAVID HIMSELF SAID BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, "THE LORD SAID...SIT AT MY RIGHT, TIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL."
ROMANS 1: 3, GOSPEL OF JESUS PROPHESIED BY OLD SCRIPTURES: SPOKE OF JESUS AS (1) LORD (2) SEED OF DAVID (3) BORN ACCORDING TO FLESH (4) NOW IN POWER!
ACTS 2: 25, DAVID SAID, THE LORD IS (1) BEFORE MY FACE (2) AT MY RIGHT HAND; cf. v. 30, CHRIST WOULD BE RAISED TO SIT ON DAVID'S THRONE (TO FULFILL THE PROMISE, v. 39).
ACTS 2: 29, DAVID IS DEAD. BUT SPOKE PROPHETICALLY OF (1) RESURRECTION (2) THRONE, v.33 (3) HEAVENLY EXALTATION (4) PROMISE FULFILLED NOW!
ACTS 4: 25, DAVID PROPHESIED OF CRUCIFIXION.
ACTS 15: 16, TABERNACLE OF DAVID REBUILT SO, "REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD" - INCLUDES ALL GENTILES. TABERNACLE OF GOD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE CHURCH (READ 1 TIMOTHY 3:15; 1 CORINTHIANS 3: 19; 6:18).
ROMANS 11: 7, DAVID SPOKE OF JEWS REJECTION OF JESUS, HOW THEY DID NOT OBTAIN THE ELECTION; WHAT THEY SEEK THEY DID NOT OBTAIN. THE ELECT, THE REMNANT OF GRACE DID OBTAIN IT.
(7)JESUS AS KING THROUGH DAVID'S INHERITANCE.
MATTHEW 21: 9, "HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID. BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST."
LUKE 20: 41-44, 45, JESUS IS LORD AND SON TO DAVID
LUKE 1: 32, HE WILL BE CALLED SON OF THE HIGHEST; GOD WILL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID; cf. 33, "AND HE WILL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB...." (NOTE: THE GOSPEL IS GOD'S NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. cf. LUKE 22: 20, 28-30).
LUKE 1: 69, A HORN OF SALVATION IN THE HOUSE OF HIS SERVANT DAVID.
ACTS 2: 34, JESUS SAT ON THE THRONE OF DAVID WHEN HE ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS.
MARK 11: 10, "BLESSED IS THE KINGDOM OF OUR FATHER DAVID THAT COMES IN THE NAME OF LORD. HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST!"
REVELATION 3: 7, THE KEY OF DAVID
REVELATION 5: 5, ROOT OF DAVID
REVELATION 22: 16, ROOT, OFFSPRING OF DAVID, BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR.
READ: MATTHEW 9:27; 15: 22; 21: 15; MARK 12: 35; LUKE 2:11; 18: 38, 39; 20: 41-45; 2 TIMOTHY 2: 8
(8)FULFILLMENT OF JESUS AS THE ROOT OF JESSE.
ROMANS 15: 12 (cf. ISAIAH 11: 10) ROOT OF JESSE SHALL COME, RAISED UP TO RULE THE GENTILES."
REVELATION 5: 5, "LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THE ROOT OF DAVID.
REVELATION 22: 16, "I, JESUS, ...ROOT AND OFFSPRING OF DAVID, THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR.""
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