Consequently an angel of the Peer of the realm stood in the past the shepherds, and the say of the Peer of the realm shone surrounding them, and they were frightened. But the angel supposed to them, "Do not be afraid; for see -- I am bringing you good intelligence of widespread joy for all the people: to you is uneducated this day in the metropolis of David a Salvation, who is the Messiah" (Luke 2:9-11 NRSV).
The rush of Israel, in close proximity the bleak Simeon, were "looking path to the comfort of Israel," the one who would be "the Lord's Messiah" (Luke 2:25-26 NRSV). Christmas time is the furthermost acceptably time to learn the origin of the Messianic purpose in Israel.
The Messianic purpose of the Old Testament, the purpose that found its understanding in the unprocessed of Christ, had its origin in the settlement of God with David (2 Samuel 7:1-29). From the tilt of God's redemptive finish off for the world, God's settlement with David is one of the furthermost huge theological statements of the Bible.
The break down for the outfit of God's settlement with David was David's impressive to build a assembly for God in Jerusalem. The suitable understanding of God's divine to David requires a review of the use of the word "assembly" in 2 Samuel 7.
The Hebrew word (bay^it) appears fifteen time in 2 Samuel 7, seven time as part of God's divine to David (7:11, 16, 19, 25, 26, 27, 29). The word "assembly" appears with four identical meanings in 2 Samuel 7:1-17. In 2 Samuel 7:1, once the replica says that the king dwelt in his assembly, the word beneficial "the king's palace." In 7:5 once the Peer of the realm said: "Are you the one to build me a assembly to delay in?" the word beneficial "a temple." In 7:11, once the futurist Nathan told David that "the Peer of the realm request make you a assembly," the word beneficial a breed that would begin with Solomon and end with Zedekiah. Such as David make fun of of "your servant's assembly as well for the projected" (2 Samuel 7:19), the word refers to a place breed.
Thus, David's impressive to build a assembly for the Peer of the realm was compensated with a divine that would transcend David's tension. The Peer of the realm supposed to David:
Along with the Peer of the realm declares to you that the Peer of the realm request make you a assembly. Such as your days are entire and you lie down with your fathers, I request elevator up your teen once you, who shall come forth from your manufacture, and I request found his imperial. He shall build a assembly for my name, and I request found the throne of his imperial for ever. I request be his advantage, and he shall be my son. Such as he commits badness, I request chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men; but I request not deem my stalwart love from him, as I took it from him who was in the past you, And your assembly and your imperial shall be made resolute for ever in the past me; your throne shall be forward for ever (2 Samuel 7:11-16).
God made three huge promises to David: that David's throne would be forward forever; that a son of David would build a assembly for God's name; and that David's son would become God's son. These three promises became the means of all Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament.
Qualities of God's promises found fulfilment in vogue David's years. Solomon, his son, built a glory assembly of fondness in Jerusalem. David's ancestors became God's sons by siding with (Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 9:6). But Solomon and the ancestors of David who sat on the throne of Jerusalem did not perceive all the criteria of God's promises to David, so God's divine was that David's breed would be an unbreakable breed.
In the same way as the mutilation of the Ridge and the expatriate of the rush of Judah to Babylon, in the company of the members of the government assembly, some rush supposed that God's divine had poor. In interruption, the rush said: "We scoff become old, dry bones - all purpose is gone. Our nation is passed on" (Ezekiel 37:11 NLT).
But all was not lost. The futurist Jeremiah promised that once the extradition, the rush of Israel would over "ladle the Peer of the realm, their God, and David, their king, whom I request elevator up for them" (Jeremiah 30:9). The purpose of Israel for the projected was based on the unprocessed of a new David who would be uneducated in Bethlehem, good as the preparatory David was uneducated put forward. The Peer of the realm supposed that from Bethlehem "a king request look who request authority done Israel on my behalf" (Micah 5:2).
At all oracles of the futurist Ezekiel speak of the coming of a New David:
Ezekiel 34:23: "I request set up done them one minder, my servant David, and he shall reassure them: he shall reassure them and be their minder."
Ezekiel 37:24: "My servant David request be their king, and they request scoff right one minder. They request farm my symbols and be attentive to detail to store my decrees."
Straight away the futurist Hosea speaks of the coming of a new David in the aged days: "Afterwards, the rush of Israel request return and take a crack at the Peer of the realm their God and David their king. They request come with awe to the Peer of the realm and to His uprightness in the aged days" (Hosea 3:5).
All of these oracles think this coming David with the divine God made to David. Straight away once the tree of David was fallen, God promised to elevator a fix for David: "The days are emphatically coming, says the Peer of the realm, once I request elevator up for David a dead on Pole" (Jeremiah 23:5).
The purpose uttered by Jeremiah was not a new sharpness gained by the futurist in the seventh century B.C. Nor was Ezekiel's purpose for a new David a new theology ready in extradition. The coming of an teen of David was an built-in tension of the period of recovery of Israel. This is what David uttered in his aged words: "Is it not my descent God has chosen? Yes, he has made an unbreakable settlement with me. His unity is arrangement and guaranteed in every exact. He request restrain my care and effectiveness" (2 Samuel 23:5).
Thus, in the fulness of time, God's divine to David became a subsistence. According to the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus Christ was a newborn of David (Matthew 1:1). The angels proclaimed that Messiah was uneducated in the metropolis of David (Luke 2:11). And eventually, even the rush of Jerusalem renowned that Jesus was a son of David: "Hosanna to the Son of David" (Matthew 21:9) and that he was the one bringing back David's kingdom: "Lovely is the coming imperial of our advantage David" (Mark 11:10).
God's settlement with David found its carrying out in Solomon and all of David's ancestors through the end of the monarchy in Judah. Nonetheless, God's divine to David found its top in Jesus Christ, seeing as right in him does David's throne become an eternal throne.
Thus, as Christians congratulate the coming of the son of David, they make an announcement with Simeon free God for the entry of the comfort of Israel:
"Sovereign Peer of the realm,
I scoff seen your salvation,
which you scoff position for all rush.
He is a light to reveal God to the nations,
and he is the say of your rush Israel!"
(Luke 2:29-32).
Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist School
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