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THE
COVENANT MADE WITH DAVID
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128.
Did God make a Covenant with David concerning the
everlasting continuance of his Kingdom?
Answer: Yes; He promised
to give him a son who should sit on His throne for
ever, and set up a Kingdom in Israel that should
have no end; and that David should see it with his
eyes, and have a place therein.
Proof:
Although
my house be not so with God; yet he hath made
with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all
things, and sure: for this is all my salvation,
and all my desire, although he make it not to
grow. (2 Sam. 23:5).
The
LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not
turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I
set upon thy throne. (Psa. 132:11).
I
have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn
unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish
for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations.
Selah. (Psa. 89:3-4).
My
covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing
that is gone out of my lips. (Psa. 89:34).
It
shall be established for ever as the moon, and
as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. (Psa.
89:37).

129.
Has the covenant made with David been fulfilled?
Answer: It was fulfilled
typically in Solomon; but its real fulfillment
is to be in Christ, who was born in David's line
and declared to be, not only the Son of God, but
the Son of David and heir to David's throne.
Proof:
And
the LORD hath performed his word that he spake,
and I am risen up in the room of David my father,
and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised,
and have built an house for the name of the LORD
God of Israel. (1 Kings 8:20).
Men
and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of
the patriarch David, that he is both dead and
buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this
day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that
God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the
fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; (Acts
2:29-30).
The
book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son
of David, the son of Abraham. (Matt. 1:1).
He
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of
the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his father David: (Luke 1:32).

130.
Will Christ, then, yet occupy the throne of David?
Answer: He will. At his
second coming, he will sit on his throne, and
reign in Jerusalem as king of the Jews and ruler
of all mankind.
Proof:
When
the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all
the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon
the throne of his glory: (Matt. 25:31).
Of
the increase of his government and peace there
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and
upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish
it with judgment and with justice from henceforth
even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will
perform this. (Isa. 9:7).
In
those days, and at that time, will I cause the
Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David;
and he shall execute judgment and righteousness
in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved,
and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is
the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD
our righteousness. (Jer. 33:15-16).
Then
the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion,
and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
(Isa. 24:23).
At
that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne
of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered
unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem:
neither shall they walk any more after the imagination
of their evil heart. (Jer. 3:17).
And
many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let
us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house
of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of
Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the
LORD from Jerusalem. (Isa. 2:3).
Then
the king, when he heard these words, was sore
displeased with himself, and set his heart on
Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the
going down of the sun to deliver him. (Dan. 6:14).

131.
Is Christ coming to the earth a second time?
Answer: Yes; he will
return as really as he went away; and when he
comes, men will see him as really as when he was
on the earth before.
Proof:
And
while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as
he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white
apparel; (Acts 1:10).
And
he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached
unto you: (Acts 3:20).
So
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
and unto them that look for him shall he appear
the second time without sin unto salvation. (Heb.
9:28).
Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we
shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2).
Behold,
he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him: and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so, Amen. (Rev. 1:7).
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