The last two messages were about the identities of Ephraim and Manasseh. This dealt with the birthright promises to Israel realized in the tribe of Joseph. We will now switch gears and look at the royal house and how this relates to the house of Israel. I hope that some of you found this message by doing a "Throne of David" web search. The reason I say this is that if you did such a search, and if you have any spiritual discernment, you will look over this site and learn what the Bible says about the throne of David and not what the mainline religious establishments teach. I trust you are smart enough to continue on, unless they have you brainwashed for fear of hell if you listen to our "Anglo-Israelite" doctrines and will somehow win God's favor if you log us off and listen to the broad-pathed preachers' impotent explanation of the throne of David as somehow being fulfilled NOW in Christ. (I don't see any Christ sitting on a throne here yet like he said he one day would, do you?)
Turn in your Bibles to II Samuel 7:8-16. By the Spirit of God, Nathan is prophesying to King David where he said:
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house. And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Every preacher and his brother quotes this passage pertaining to David's eternal royal lineage, ultimately fulfilled in Christ. But if we look carefully at that passage, we see the promise of a continual succession of kings, not just Christ alone. Yet, some will poke fun at that belief of continuous kings claiming that the throne of David was fallen, only to be spiritually fulfilled in Christ. Indeed, they dogmatically claim that an eternal throne of David, if fulfilled by a human agent, must exist in the land of Israel, specifically Jerusalem, and nowhere else. I wonder where they get that idea? First of all, notice that there are provisions of punishment of David's sons if they disobey. Would that apply to a perfect Christ? NO! Obviously, that applies to other descendants as well. I have the critical promises in bold type if you notice. They are:
This is a BIG promise! Or, should I say several promises? Psalm 89 CLEARLY says that this covenant was to be through ALL generations. As a matter of fact, the psalmist laments when the covenant APPEARED broken because of the captivity (proving he clearly understood it to mean that it was to continue forever). No, it was not broken! God merely transferred the throne of David elsewhere. The throne was understood to go through Solomon's lineage (I Chronicles 28:5) and was also understood to be eternal from DAVID'S TIME ONWARD and called a "covenant of salt" (not from some future Christ's time)--- see II Chronicles 13:5. I find it amazing that the mainline accuses the likes of us of wresting scripture, and yet they "reinterpret" it to fit their notions when they do not see an obvious fulfillment. In other words, they "spiritualize" the promises to Jesus Christ. Frankly, any person with half an ounce of logic can see that it takes more imagination and assumption to interpret it the way the mainline religions do. At least the solution we have to offer is based on what the Bible says, no matter how strange it may first appear to sound!
The crux of this message isn't to go into tracing the throne of David. We have many messages about that already as going to Ireland, then Scotland, and ultimately the British throne. Actually, the crux is to debunk one notion: that the throne of David must reside in Israel. You see, God promised that the house of David would rule over Israel forever. In case that went over your head, notice the one promise made to King David. It says, "I WILL appoint a place for my people Israel." Now in case you missed this, if David's seed were to rule forever over Israel, and Israel is going to an appointed place, then it stands to reason that the throne of his kingdom could also reside elsewhere! And then we are accused of having faulty logic! Isn't that what the passage strongly implies?
In addition, God promised punishment for the king's seed if they sinned. An example of the consequences of that punishment is found in II Chronicles 7:19-20. The punishment basically consisted of exile and a ruined temple, but NOT an end to the throne. The previous verses 17- 18 are misconstrued to mean that there will be eternal kings provided they follow the commands. Actually, these verses mean that everything would be "status quo" and the kings would continue forever IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL had they obeyed. The opposite would be to rule OUTSIDE THE LAND OF ISRAEL, NOT A TERMINATION. That's why God stated there would be exile---- but if they had their choice, they wanted to stay in the land, right? That's all God was saying. Hence, we have at least two scripture passages that imply colonization and/or exile in which case the kings would rule over wherever Israel resided. I think it's safe to say that had they not sinned, the nation of Israel with their king would reside in the land of Israel with colonies abounding elsewhere (like Britain). Since they sinned, they were still to become a multitude of nations, but due to the exile, the king and core of these nations went to that "appointed place" which was obviously God's plan in anticipation of their future fall.
Several other Scriptural passages also support this, but these two passages in themselves strongly support the doctrine that the throne of David can and does exist other than in the land of Israel. Hence, we not only found that God kept His promises to the birthright people of the tribe of Joseph, but also kept His promises to the royal house of Judah with a descendent of David ruling over them.