The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 1 Chronicles 17:10-14,
"I [God] declare to you [David] that the Lord will build a house for you: When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor [King Saul]. I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever."
Here is God's promise to David. Sweeping in its scope and astounding in purpose, when David declared he wanted to build a house for the Lord's presence (represented in the ark) by building a temple to the Lord, the Lord said no, that David's offspring would do that - and that the Lord would build a house for David!
David, by this time, had already built himself a palace. What the Lord was promising David was a dynasty. Not a typical dynasty but a dynasty that would have one of David's offspring sit over the house of the Lord, over his kingdom, forever. God will establish this descendant's throne forever.
As often he does, God spoke in terms of both a near term and a far term fulfillment of prophecy. David's immediate son, Solomon, would assume David's throne and be the one to build a physical temple for the ark to rest in. However, one of David's distant descendants, Jesus Christ, would eventually assume the throne over God's people. It would be this descendant that would build a spiritual house for God. "As you come to him, the living Stone [Jesus Christ]—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 2:4-5.
This king, Jesus Christ, will sit on the throne over God's people forever. In talking to his disciples Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."
How wonderful is that?!
"I [God] declare to you [David] that the Lord will build a house for you: When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor [King Saul]. I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever."
Here is God's promise to David. Sweeping in its scope and astounding in purpose, when David declared he wanted to build a house for the Lord's presence (represented in the ark) by building a temple to the Lord, the Lord said no, that David's offspring would do that - and that the Lord would build a house for David!
David, by this time, had already built himself a palace. What the Lord was promising David was a dynasty. Not a typical dynasty but a dynasty that would have one of David's offspring sit over the house of the Lord, over his kingdom, forever. God will establish this descendant's throne forever.
As often he does, God spoke in terms of both a near term and a far term fulfillment of prophecy. David's immediate son, Solomon, would assume David's throne and be the one to build a physical temple for the ark to rest in. However, one of David's distant descendants, Jesus Christ, would eventually assume the throne over God's people. It would be this descendant that would build a spiritual house for God. "As you come to him, the living Stone [Jesus Christ]—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 2:4-5.
This king, Jesus Christ, will sit on the throne over God's people forever. In talking to his disciples Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."
How wonderful is that?!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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