Prophetic Prospective Daily Devotional

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

As we once again visit the 7th chapter of II Samuel we look at the last half of the chapter, this visit. The first seventeen verses of II Samuel 7 are the "Davidic Covenant", a promise to King David that one of his descendants will one day sit on the throne in Jerusalem in the Temple and will do so, forever.

The God-man, Jesus Christ, will be that one on the throne of David forever. The last half of this chapter, David acknowledges that the Lord God is a great God and that he, the once lowly shepherd boy, is in awe of who God is and what He has done for David's people.

David as a servant of God, verses 19-21, says "who am I", that You have brought me to this position, King of Israel and this promise, the Davidic Covenant, as it relates to the future.

David realizes that the God of the Jews is "great", that there is none like the Lord God. Then David asks the rhetorical question, "what one nation in the earth is like thy people", verse 23.

The Jewish nation is a nation whom God went out to redeem from among all the peoples of the earth, for a "people to Himself". A nation whom God will give a piece of land, actually a piece of land ten times the size of the land the Jewish nation has today.

David also recognizes that the Lord confirmed to Himself the "people of Israel" to be a people unto Him, forever, verse 24. This statement declares that God has a future plan for the Jewish people. He is not finished with Israel. Israel, the nation and the people, have not been replaced, Biblically, by the "church".

The Lord will, and is today, revealing that plan to His chosen nation. By the way, that word "forever" is "olam" in Hebrew and it means not just during this time, but forever, even into eternity future. The Jewish people will be His chosen nation, forever.

Notice that Jeremiah 33:20-21 says "day and night will cease from being, before the Lord breaks His promise to David". Because God keeps His promise to David and his nation, the Jewish people, we can know for sure He keeps His promise of eternal life for you and for me. If He could break one promise He could break the other. God cannot break either promise.

What we have read for today and thought through is actually the worship and prayers of King David after God gave him the Davidic Covenant. With the promises that God has made to us, as Christians, we should pray and worship Him also. Thank you Lord.

PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you, thank you, thank you Lord for keeping your promises to me, those promises of salvation and eternal life.