9/6/2010 7:55:22 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: What the covenant means to Israel
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Samuel 7:10-15
Message of the verses: “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; 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. 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. 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, 15
but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from
Saul, whom I removed from before you.”
I
think that when looking at the covenant that God is making to David that one
has to go back to two places in the book of Genesis, well actually three
places. First let’s look at Genesis
3:15, “15 And I will put enmity Between
you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on
the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.’” This promise of the “seed” is given shortly
after Adam and Eve sinned, and this is the first promise of the “Seed” the
Messiah. Now before going to the next
two sections in Genesis I want to look at a verse in the letter to the
Galatians. “Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does
not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one,
"And to your seed," that is, Christ (Gal. 3:16). The Davidic covenant is part of the promise
that God gave to the woman (Eve) and it is about the coming of Jesus Christ to
the earth. If I am not mistaken Genesis
3:15 is the only place where when speaking of a seed it is the seed of the
woman, for all the other times it is the seed of man. Being the seed of the woman is speaking of
the virgin birth of Jesus Christ through Mary.
The
other two places in Genesis that I wrote about are found in Genesis 12:1-3 and
also Genesis 15:1-15, and in both of these places is written what is called
“The Abrahamic Covenant.” This covenant
was between the Lord and Abraham and it is an unconditional covenant with God’s
people Israel. The covenant is still in
effect and the promises that were made are still valid. Part of this covenant with Abraham speaks of
the whole world being blessed by God through this covenant, and of course that
blessing to the entire world came through Jesus Christ.
The
Davidic covenant, I think that it would be true in saying, a more specific
portion of the Abrahamic covenant. In
this covenant, which was began to unfold in yesterday’s SD are promises to
David, the nation of Israel and also believers today. In today’s SD I am looking at the promises
concerning the nation of Israel, yet this includes the family of David.
Dr.
Wiersbe, in his commentary on this section spends a lot of time on the word
“rest” and the concept of this word is found in verse ten. God first speaks of rest after He completed
the creation of the world in Genesis 2:1-3, and then the Law given to Israel
speaks of a Sabbath rest, and there are different concepts of that rest. The Ten Commandants speak of the Sabbath rest
in the following verses: “ 8
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 "Six days you shall labor and do all
your work, 10 but the seventh day is a
Sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son
or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your
sojourner who stays with you. 11
"For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea
and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD
blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
God
gave Israel rest after David won the battles around him and then Solomon was
able to build the temple of the Lord while Israel was at rest.
Believers
also have a spiritual rest and this is written about in Matthew 11:28-30 and
also in Hebrews 2:10 and 4:14-16. In the
one thousand year reign of Jesus Christ Israel is promised rest, so rest is an
important part of the Davidic Covenant.
Next
in this covenant is seen a promise from God to build a “house” for David. David had it in his heart to build for the
Lord and then God tells David that He would build a house for David. This house for David was speaking of the
dynasty of David’s line as king of Israel culminating with the birth of Jesus
Christ, the promised Messiah who would be known as the “son of David. “The record of the genealogy of Jesus the
Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: (Matthew 1:1).”
This
section also speaks of David’s son Solomon along with the promised Messiah who
is greater than Solomon, “The Queen of the South will rise up with this
generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends
of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than
Solomon is here (Matthew 12:42).”
Solomon
would build the temple, but at the end of his life he would die, but the
messiah would go on forever. If I know
my eschatology correctly I believe that Jesus will build the Millennial Temple
shortly after His return. There is even
a concept that I have heard by a commentator that Christ will build this temple
in three days, but I am not sure of this.
Just
as David blessed the nation of Israel by preparing the things needed to build
the temple and writing the songs that would be sung in the temple believers
today are also blessed by David for keeping the light shining so that the
Savior could come into the world.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: After my study of Daniel nine I was impressed
so much of the timing of the Lord as the 490 years had a direct starting point
and as seen in Luke 19 the first 483 years had a direct ending point as the
timing was perfect. I look at the Lord
Jesus’ ministry while on earth and I can see that He was never in a hurry but
He was never late, and this all has to do with the timing of God. In Christ’s high priestly prayer He speaks
about His time had come, the time that God chose to have the Son of God
crucified, and it was all in His control. Looking at today’s verses the timing
of God was perfect to give David this covenant.
This shows me that my time is in God’s hands and that certain things
that happen in my life are happening because it is the perfect timing of God. I certainly am responsible of the wrong that
I do, but it is good to know that the God who created this universe and who
came to earth to die for my sins that I may have a relationship with Him is in
control of my life, and I would not want it any other way.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Trust
the Lord to guide my path today.
2. Trust
the Lord to continue to teach me contentment.
3. Give
myself to the Lord for worship and service.
4. Trust
the Holy Spirit to continue to teach me from His Word and to convict me of any
unconfessed sin.
5. Put
on the Spiritual armor to be protected by the Lord.
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