Week 10: David and God's Covenant Part II
The new covenant is the old (2 Samuel )
The following is from Nancy Guthrie's "The Son of David":
Oftentimes, to understand biblical prophecies and promises, we have to see them like a distant mountain range. From far away, we can't differentiate between different mountains. We can't see that some mountains are closer and some are farther away. They seem like one long mountain. But the closer we get, or the more we bring them into view through a telescope, the clearer we can see that some of the individual mountains are closer than others. That's what we see in God's covenant promise to David, found in 2 Samuel 7. Some aspects of his promise were fulfilled in David's lifetime and some in the years immediately following his lifetime, when Solomon and other descendants sat on his throne as king over Israel. But those were just initial or partial fulfillments. They served as a preview of how God would fulfill his promises to David in a much greater way to David's greater descendant. The promises that God made to David find greater fulfillment in David's greater son, Jesus, in both his first coming and in his second.
Oftentimes, to understand biblical prophecies and promises, we have to see them like a distant mountain range. From far away, we can't differentiate between different mountains. We can't see that some mountains are closer and some are farther away. They seem like one long mountain. But the closer we get, or the more we bring them into view through a telescope, the clearer we can see that some of the individual mountains are closer than others. That's what we see in God's covenant promise to David, found in 2 Samuel 7. Some aspects of his promise were fulfilled in David's lifetime and some in the years immediately following his lifetime, when Solomon and other descendants sat on his throne as king over Israel. But those were just initial or partial fulfillments. They served as a preview of how God would fulfill his promises to David in a much greater way to David's greater descendant. The promises that God made to David find greater fulfillment in David's greater son, Jesus, in both his first coming and in his second.
| Promise | Fulfillment |
|---|---|
| I will make for you a great name (2 Sam 7:9) | 2 Sam. 5:10 Phil. 2:10 |
| I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly. (2 Sam 7:10) | John 14:1-3 Rev. 21:1-14 |
| I will give you rest from all your enemies (2 Sam 7:11) | 2 Sam 7:1 1 Kings 5:4 1 Cor. 15:23-28 |
| The Lord will make you a house. (2 Sam 7:11) | 1 Kings 11:43 Heb. 3:6 |
| I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom (2 Sam 7:12) | 1 Kings 1:46 Acts 2:29-36 |
| He shall build a house for my name. (2 Sam 7:13) | 1 Kings 8:15-20 John 2:19-22 |
| I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a s son (2 Sam 7:14-15) | Ps. 2:6-7 Rom. 1:3-4 |
| When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men. (2 Sam 7:14-15) | 1 Kings 11:9-14 Isa. 53:5 |
| My steadfast love will not de- part form him, as I took it from Saul. (2 Sam 7:15) | 2 Kings 8:19 |
| Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. (2 Sam 7:16) | Luke 1:33 1 Pet. 2:4-5 |
| Your throne shall be estab- listed forever. (2 Sam 7:16) | Rev. 4:1-11; 22:16 |
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