Tuesday, October 07, 2008

WHY THE SON OF DAVID? :- A BLESSING TO ERASE A CURSE.

1 KINGS 9:
Solomon builds a temple and does all he had ever desired. Putting the Name of GOD on it and praying for God to dwell in it, God hears him and approves it.God is all knowing and looks at Solomon and tells him to keep things as they are. "Remain a guy of Integrity and I will reside here." Infact, as Solomon's father had been promised that... he would have a son on the throne of Israel forever.

God goes ahead to assure Solomon that not sticking to his part of the bargain would mean Him leaving the temple. In fact God tells Solomon what people will say about the temple after the Lord has departed... " A symbol of RIDICULE"...
I don't know what you think but, i think that that's a CURSE waiting to happen.
Fast forward to 1 kings 10 when the gorgeous queen of Sheba visits and we know what happens.(The curse is evoked and the God departs the temple and it becomes a symbol of ridicule.)

REMEMBER AT THIS POINT GOD HAS BLESSED DAVID, SOLOMON and the GENERATION TO COME BUT THE GUY HAS JUST EVOKED A CURSE!!

1 CHRONICLES 17
This is where the promise to David is made through the prophet Nathan. Just look at the wordings in these verses...
verse 4: "Go and tell David that the Lord says that he isn't the one going to build the temple (Permanent place of God's residence)" God was living among them in their tents and moved with them.

The promise in 1CHRO 17: 11-14
From the above text, God had made a long term generational commitment to DAVID that Solomon tried to fulfill by building the temple. However the temple the lord was after was one in the integrity of heart and not the one of wood and stone.

This is ULTIMATELY why JESUS is born into the LINEAGE of DAVID.
To fulfill the written word and the promise of GOD in 1CHRON 17:12-14.(READ IT PLEASE)

JESUS is the SON OF DAVID (who always sits on the throne) THE BLESSING that ERASED the CURSE. If you abide in CHRIST, no one will ridicule you for your past... "THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION for THOSE in CHRIST JESUS"

I hope I haven't attempted to be THEOLOGICAL!!

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