The Supreme Ruler in this glorious order of things will be Jesus of Nazareth, as is evident from the testimonies already quoted. But it is important to put this proposition in a more specific form, by calling attention to THE COVENANT MADE WITH DAVID, in which God promised him a Son, under whom His Kingdom should be established for ever.

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:1 (2 Samuel 7:12-14).

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.( Psalm 132:11).

Now these be the last words of David...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... He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. (2 Samuel 23:1, 3-5).

1 Adam Clarke renders: "Even in his suffering for iniquity, I will chasten him." etc.

Additional comment: John Thomas renders: "In his being caused to bow down, I will chasten..." The Hebrew avah here is rendered commit iniquity," signifies in the active voice to do amiss, to bow down, to commit iniquity; but when the Niphil or the passive voice, as here, it indicates something done to one; thus to cause to bow down, to suffer iniquity, etc. The verse speaks not of the Lord committing iniquity but of being the object of it from the hands of others. - Editor.