The promise that God gave to Nathan , David’s personal prophet, was a whopper.: “The Lord declares to you that the Lord Himself will establish a house for you. . .’ I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood,. . . and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he will be my son. . .Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.” (2 Samuel 7:11-14)

Previously God had made His covenants with Noah and Abraham and with all of Israel through His prophet Moses. That covenant brought the nation to the Promised Land and gave the ten Commandments and shaped His people into a nation. This promise God made to David is personal to both God and to David. and extends eternity to David and his descendants. This promise is a foreshadow of the coming of His own son in the House of David. Ultimately, all the covenants converge in the descendant of David who will indeed live forever, and extend eternal life to humanity, the son of God.

When God made the next covenant promise, He sent His Angel to a young woman who, like Moses and David, was surprised to be chosen by God in His plan for humanity. Mary and Joseph, descendants of David, raised God’s son in the light of the Angel’s prophesy: “ He will be great and be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his Father, David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:32-33)

Jesus fulfilled the prophecies uttered by prophets throughout the Old Testament. His death and resurrection confirmed the gift of eternal life contained in those prophecies. The love of God so desired the restoration of His people to Himself, that He moved through centuries of time to enable His created beings to know and even to share His Spirit in their lives. All individuals who turn their eyes and trust to God find a whopper of a promise fulfilled in their own lives. The knowledge of, and especially the contact with an eternal person who also lived in time has restored countless believers to God’s family, discovering that the house of David, and the house of God, have been given to us, too.

Love in Him,

Prue