And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’” In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
David’s kingdom was spoken by God as being “established forever.” That is a powerful and assuring truth. That truth is the reason for the virgin birth of the Messiah, Christ Jesus our Lord. Jesus was a descendent of King David. He will sit on the throne of the world forever and ever. He may not be sitting there now, but this one of the first promises that a descendent of David would sit on the throne. To do this Jesus would have to die and raise from the dead. But, we can see that this promise was a prominent thought process of the Jewish mind in regard to their Messiah, King. This is why in Luke 4 Satan tried to temp Jesus to allow “him” (the Devil) to give Jesus the kingdoms of the earth. Note:
And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written,
“‘You shall worship the Lord your God,
and him only shall you serve.’”
The Devil had authority over the earth at that point and offered to give to Jesus his kingdoms. But, to do so, would have meant that Jesus would have to worship Satan’s plan and not His Fathers. God the Father had already giving Jesus authority over all things. The Devil was dealing from the bottom of the deck. Jesus would be king. He would have to follow God’s plan to make Him king and He did - through the way of the cross.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
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