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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:02:19 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:02:28 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:02:36 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:02:44 GMT -5
READ 1 Kings 5:5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:03:22 GMT -5
I THE TEMPLE PROMISEIn 2 Samuel 7:12-13 (see above) we read God's words to king David. The verses contain a promise regarding David's immediate successor (Solomon), namely that Solomon that would built the Temple. Obviously this promise was not one passed on from father to son so that a succession of Kings were each building a new temple. It was, one could say a "one off deal" (compare 1 Kings 1:24).
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:03:32 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:20:28 GMT -5
II ROYAL SUCCESSIONGod went on to provided another detail or feature to this promise: A kingdom is a system of rulership with a king (or queen) at its head. The Kingdom of Israel was such a system. Evidently David would become the head of, a succession of kings. Solomon was chosen as the first in that line of Kings (see 1 Kings 1:17). Note that although David's royal kingship would pass from David through to Solomon (not to Nathan or any other of Davids son's) the promise was made to David not to Solomon. 1 CHRONICLES 28:7 then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. For I made this covenant with your father, David, when I said , 'One of your descendants will always rule over Israel.'" NLT[/quote]
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 3:20:38 GMT -5
"Jehovah is high above all the nations; His glory is above the heavens.+" -Psalm 113:4
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 4:25:01 GMT -5
II THE MESSIAH & THE DAVIDIC PROMISENotice that God also refered to David's " house" (or dynasty/family). Thus over and above the establishment of a constant succession of Davidic Kings (running first through Solomon), there was a promised blessing on the family as a whole: someone from David’s house (or family tribe/clan) would eventually inherit the kingship and rule "forever". Did that individual have to necessarily be the direct successor of a king? No, because a new promise was not made to each successive king, it was made to the father or the head of the house of David. Thus as long as that individual was of "the Royal house of David" and had the legal "right to inherit the kingship" should that be possible, then he would be in a position to qualify as that special " somebody" (or Messiah).
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 4:25:11 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 4:31:40 GMT -5
SUMMARY: The Davidic Promise refers to the Promise God made to King David. God promised the following
- That Solomon (David's direct heir) would built a temple for God - That there would be a succession of Kings from David's family line - That Someone from the House of David (possibly a king but not necessarily) would eventualy inherit that kingship and rule forever
Given the above, Jesus, decendant of David "genetically" (biologically) through his mother and legally though his "father, both of whom were of the "house" of the royal dynasty, was not disqualified to any claim to Messiahship.
YOUR SEED FROM YOUR LOINS
As has been established in an earlier post, the inheritance law was not dependant on "genetics" or biological parenthood. Rights and inheritance were passed on to the child or individual that had the legal right to inherit and this may or may not have been a biological son. It could just as easily been a brother, an uncle or a distant cousin. It could (as inthe case of Ruth and Boaz) be through someone that had no biological link to the family at all. Property rights and privilèges were kept in the family by established to had the a legal right.
So to what is the bible refering to when it speaks about someone issuing from a mans "loins" (heb. meah lit. thigh)?
This was simply an idiomatic expression that described a person's someone's decendants. It does not necessarily refer to those a person "literally" provided sperm to father. King David, for example had many children, but all those later born into the Davidic family can be refered to issuing from his "groins", not in the literal sense but that he (David) was the family head.
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 4:31:52 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 14:50:24 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 14:51:00 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2022 14:51:31 GMT -5
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