Post by Mark on Apr 28, 2008 4:37:51 GMT -8
Malkhoot Beit David
"May the Seed of David, Your Servant, soon flourish and may You exalt in Your Salvation. For in Your Salvation do we hope all the day. Blessed are You, Adonai, who has brought forth the Horn of our Salvation."
"Thus saith the LORD; ‘If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.’"
(Jeremiah 33:20-22)
The "seed of David" does not have to necessarily refer to his biological offspring. Since this passage speaks, somewhat uniquely, of this seed flourishing so that it is counted without number, it is likely that it is not biological children that Adonai is promising; but rather ideological offspring, those following after the way of David.
This passage was penned in the book of Jeremiah when the throne of David sat empty. The Babylonian captors had razed the city and taken away the people as slaves. The nations of Israel and Judah were no more than subdivisions of the vast Babylonian empire, and utterly destitute. Everything was broken down or taken away.
I always hate that: when the Word of God speaks so obviously in contradiction to what my senses are telling me: "Can’t You see what’s going on down here?" Yet, the reality of His truth is not inhibited by the my finite understanding of circumstances.
Something absolutely amazing would happen in Babylon. The Jewish people would mightily influence the culture and conviction of the entire world. Jewish minds would become heads of state, the advisors to the kings of Babylonia, Media and Persia, affecting the course of human understanding in every direction.
God can be really sneaky sometimes.
We can pray the Malkhoot beit David with confidence, that the Salvation of Adonai, through the house of David is beginning to flourish in the world today… not necessarily in the ways we might have expected, nor even preferred; but one day we will turn around and behold what He has done with no recourse but to fall on our faces and declare to Him, "Adonai, You are very great and Your Word endures through all things!"
"May the Seed of David, Your Servant, soon flourish and may You exalt in Your Salvation. For in Your Salvation do we hope all the day. Blessed are You, Adonai, who has brought forth the Horn of our Salvation."
"Thus saith the LORD; ‘If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.’"
(Jeremiah 33:20-22)
The "seed of David" does not have to necessarily refer to his biological offspring. Since this passage speaks, somewhat uniquely, of this seed flourishing so that it is counted without number, it is likely that it is not biological children that Adonai is promising; but rather ideological offspring, those following after the way of David.
This passage was penned in the book of Jeremiah when the throne of David sat empty. The Babylonian captors had razed the city and taken away the people as slaves. The nations of Israel and Judah were no more than subdivisions of the vast Babylonian empire, and utterly destitute. Everything was broken down or taken away.
I always hate that: when the Word of God speaks so obviously in contradiction to what my senses are telling me: "Can’t You see what’s going on down here?" Yet, the reality of His truth is not inhibited by the my finite understanding of circumstances.
Something absolutely amazing would happen in Babylon. The Jewish people would mightily influence the culture and conviction of the entire world. Jewish minds would become heads of state, the advisors to the kings of Babylonia, Media and Persia, affecting the course of human understanding in every direction.
God can be really sneaky sometimes.
We can pray the Malkhoot beit David with confidence, that the Salvation of Adonai, through the house of David is beginning to flourish in the world today… not necessarily in the ways we might have expected, nor even preferred; but one day we will turn around and behold what He has done with no recourse but to fall on our faces and declare to Him, "Adonai, You are very great and Your Word endures through all things!"
