The Great Salvation/29

PROPOSITION 29.

God Covenanted With David to Establish a Universal, Glorious and Everlasting Kingdom on the Earth

II Sam. 7:12 And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee which shell proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

II Sam. 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

II Sam. 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.

II Sam. 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be ruling in the fear of God.

II Sam. 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

II Sam. 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure; and this is ALL MY SALVATION AND ALL MY DESIRE although he make it not to grow.

Psa. 132:11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

Now these promises were not fulfilled in the days of David and Solomon. They remain yet to be fulfilled after the resurrection of David and all the faithful. This you will see by the fact that it was when David should "sleep with his fathers (II Sam. 7:12 ) that the promised king would be raised up; and yet it says, "Thy house and thy kingdom will I establish for ever before thee," or in thy presence (verse 16); so that it would be subsequent to David’s resurrection. In this light David understood it; for he says: But thou hast spoken also of thy servants, house for a great while to come (verse 19).