Just a reminder that Chafer Seminary's fall semester registration is going on right now through the 23rd of August. And so if you're a member of West Houston Bible Church, you can take up to two courses at no tuition charge. Tuition is free. And you can get more information on the courses being offered at chafer.edu. We have men's prayer breakfast this Saturday morning at 730. So men, you need to be there. And it's always a profitable time, good discussion. Pray for Jeff Phipps. He heads to Brazil August 28th to September 3rd. Pray for Jim and Phyllis Myers. They leave for Tahiti to do some work for the next two weeks or so with Mark and Renee Perkins in Tahiti. So pray for them and then also be in prayer and preparation for the Fort Bend County Fair Evangelism event on September 27th. to October 6th. Zoom training begins September 7th and there's a place to sign up in the fellowship hall. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not grow weary. They shall walk and not faint. Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. So before we get started, we'll have a few moments of silent prayer. And then I will, so you can be spiritually prepared, and then I will open in prayer. Let's pray. Father, we're so thankful that we had this time to come together to look at the whole of Scripture from this sort of bird's eye view to come to a greater understanding of how the Scripture fits together so that we can have a better grasp of your plan and your purposes and how all of the parts fit. And Father, we pray that you would help us to understand that and get a greater appreciation for your plans, your purposes, and who you are. So Father we pray that you would help us as we study and read tonight that we might come to an understanding of the topic and what you're doing through the kingship of David in the Old Testament. So we pray this in Christ's name. Amen. I received a very nice email that came in today Among other things, it was nice to see somebody emphasize the fact, and hopefully all of, I'm saying this because I want all the people who usually get involved in transcribing, get involved in lots of behind the scenes volunteer work that make this church happen and make, also make Dean Bible Ministries happen. And this is from a lady, she and her husband, who's retired military now, have listened, been involved, everywhere they were stationed for the last probably 20 plus years and very enthusiastic and grateful for the website and just all that goes into the website. People who do the indexing and the programming and the transcribing and everything. But it's just all of these volunteers that we have make it all work. If it weren't for them, nobody would ever hear me unless you were just inside these four walls. So that is, we need to be praying for them and very grateful for all that they do. And one of the things she brought out was that how many times over the years she'd wanted to just try to figure out and read through and put everything together in the Bible as a whole. And when I started the Interlock series last year, this is just really opened her eyes to how everything in the Bible is, it fits together. and connects. It's interlocked. So it's important for us to understand that. All right, so we are in Lesson 21. Well, we finished up Lesson 21 last time, and Lesson 21 focused on Israel's demand for a king. God responded by answering their prayer for giving them what they wanted. When we pray, sometimes God says yes, sometimes He says no. Sometimes He says yes and gives us what we wanted. Sometimes He says yes and He doesn't give us what we asked for, but He gives us what our desire was. And sometimes God says you just don't have enough maturity yet to have the capacity to handle it. And so we need to grow and mature. What happened with Israel is they didn't have capacity or an appreciation for what David would bring to them. And so God gave them what they were looking for, somebody who looked like a king and appeared to be kingly and that he could win battles. And God gave him grace to be able to do that at the beginning of his reign, but he was disobedient. He did not have a heart that was seeking God. And the contrast was not that one was a sinner and one was not much of a sinner, because they were both, as we'll see in our study of David, they were both sinners. But David is called by God a man after God's heart. He desired to know God and to obey God. And I hope that we're all that way. We really, really, in our heart of hearts want to do what God wants us to do. That's our desire. We're going to fail many, many times. We're going to sin many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many times. God always forgives us and God always treats us in grace. And so that's what we see exhibited with David. So we looked at that in the Old Testament, Lesson 21. I got started today, got interrupted. I can't tell you how many little interruptions I had today. I got the title slide started but I didn't get it finished because I had a phone call or two or three or whatever happened today. So we didn't get that done. But the focus on King David is looking at the second king who is David. And we're going to look at his life and the overview of his life, the anointing of David how God brings him to the throne, that he will bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, God will give him a covenant, and then he will fail miserably through an adulterous affair and then be involved in a conspiracy to have Bathsheba's husband Uriah killed. And then he will confess, turn back to God, and he becomes a pattern for Christ. Not in his sin, of course, but in his focus on the Lord as best a human can be. So we see this background to understanding what's going on here is that God is shifting. And so we see the introduction of God's kingdom. And we ought to make a distinction as we get into this that there are different forms of God's kingdom. There's God's universal reign, where God is the sovereign king over his creation. Then there is God's theocratic kingship. A theocracy is a government where the ultimate authority is God. And so you have the theocratic kingship. And that ends That ends when Israel is taken out under divine discipline. And then we'll have the messianic kingdom in the future. And so we have to distinguish between these different kinds of kingdoms and we'll get into that a little more in future lessons. So what we see though is that in human history there is this contrast between the kingdom of God, that is God's overall rulership over the nation, and the kingdom of man. Man seeks to set himself up. This rebellion started in the Garden of Eden, as we saw. And so God's kingdom is based on grace. God's intent is to save man, to provide salvation. God's desire is that none should perish, but that all should be saved. And so in order to bring about that following the failures of the human race to follow God prior to the flood, the judgment of the flood, and then the next act of disobedience in the Tower of Babel, God then goes to a plan, we think of it as plan C or D, but it is God's original plan because God and His omniscience knew what would happen. But these things happen to them as a lesson for us to understand how horrible it would be if man got his own way and was unrestrained. And that period between the fall and the flood, there's no restraint of government, there's barely any restraint within the family, there is just no presence of the Holy Spirit. There's a presence of God, I believe, on the earth at that time because God still was in Eden. Eden was not destroyed. Man was just incapable of entering anymore. And so when you come to the beginning of Genesis 6, there's a... the King James translated it, my spirit will not strive with man anymore, but that is a guess at what the word means. They did not have the various language tools and knowledge in 1611 that we have today. And so they were guessing because that Hebrew word was only used once, so they were kind of guessing at it. And yet when you look at the similar languages which are called cognate languages, for example Italian and Latin and French and Spanish are all called romance languages. They're cognate languages. They're very, very similar in many ways. Well, Arabic and Hebrew and Akkadian and Ugaritic, which was a, from Israel's perspective, a Northwestern Semitic, Northwestern Syria Semitic language. None of those, some of those had not been discovered yet, but they have very, they have similar words. They have the basic consonants, although they might be pronounced differently, something like that. And so what we find in the cognate languages is the word that is used there in Genesis chapter 6 that is translated strive is a word that in other Semitic languages means to abide. And God says I'm not going to, my spirit is not going to abide with man anymore because the evil in their, the imaginations of their heart are evil continuously. And so We get a glimpse of this as we look at some really horrible things going on today from anti-Semitism and the horrific display of pagan eroticism at the beginning of the Olympics a couple of weeks ago and these other things. That's just a very small glimpse of what was normative and daily everywhere on the earth prior to the flood. So God wiped it out. God comes along and starts over with Noah and his family. Again tells them to scatter and fill the earth. They disobey. You have the Tower of Babel. So God scatters their languages so that he establishes nations. But God is going to establish his own kingdom, a counterculture on the earth. And so it is based on this concept of grace. He chooses Abraham. He then through Abraham's descendants, Abraham, he gives a covenant. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob each reaffirmed the covenant. And then God protects them by taking them into Egypt where they're in slavery. So even though it appears to be something bad, it is actually something good. One of the last things Joseph says, in Genesis 50 is to his brothers who think that now that Jacob's dead that he's going to get his revenge on them and so they're fearful and he says, well, you may have meant it for evil but God meant it for good. And that's interesting, that comes at the end of Genesis and then the opening of Exodus you find that now the Jews are slaves in Egypt. And you think, well, Well, it seems like this is bad, but God meant it for good because he was protecting them and isolating them from their... and protecting them from their own evil desires and inclinations to assimilate to the pagan culture. And then God is going to redeem them, bring them out through the Passover as we see. God saved Israel, takes them to Mount Sinai where he gives them the law. There's the song of Moses, which is a national anthem, and then he will establish the worship rituals that are for the tabernacle, later the temple. Then they will go into the land in this gray areas where paganization takes place during the conquest and settlement because they don't fully obey the Lord in annihilating every single one of the Canaanites. Every man, woman, and child, and in some places all of their animals. What's interesting is I have an app on my phone that is called Newsreel. Okay? N-E-W-S, like news. And then the S begins S-R-A-E-L. Newsreel. Okay? Pretty good app for news. And I'll read some of the articles that are talking about what's going on today, and I'll read comments. And some of the people who comment say, the reason we have this problem with the Arabs in Gaza and in the West Bank is because Joshua didn't slaughter all of the Canaanites when he had the opportunity. So, exactly right. So it all goes back to those problems. So God establishes the theocracy. This is the theocratic kingdom. God establishes Israel's chain of command. God is the king. Even when there's a human king, God is the king. He is the ultimate authority. And he mediates his rule through two things through the giving of the law which is to be taught to the people by the priests continuously and the king is to read daily and make his own copy of the law and then read it every day and then he will provide additional revelation through the prophets and their guidelines to be able to identify a true prophet from a false prophet And then the king representing God rules over Israel. Now we know there were many failures and we'll get into that as we go along. So this is our timeline chart. We have the initial events in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the five books of the Torah or the Pentateuch. And that is followed, we looked at the conquest, then that covers the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. and now we're on the period of the kingdom first the United Kingdom and then the divided kingdom and we will be looking at King David this week and next week and then we will be looking at King Solomon what happens with Solomon and then the division of the kingdom as a result of Solomon's apostasy disobedience to God by multiplying wives and marrying pagan wives and they would bring their false gods in to be a stumbling block to Israel. And then the decline of the kingdom. So all of this is going to be covered in this section on the kingdom. Now on this slide we're introduced to the basic events in David's life. These basic events we see six things that are highlighted. The beginning when he is anointed in 1 Samuel 18 and then later in 2 Samuel when he is king he retrieves the ark and brings it into Jerusalem in preparation for the building of the temple which will come to pass under his son Solomon. And then God will provide a covenant with David This is a very special covenant that gives us the clue as to how God is going to continue to fulfill his promise to provide a Savior through the seed of the woman, through Abraham, then later through Judah, through Isaac, Jacob, and then Judah, and then through David. So we have God's covenant with David, then we have David's failure, the adultery and murder, and then his confession, and I prefer to use the word turning to God as opposed to repentance. Repentance is such a loaded word, even if you look it up in other languages. For example, we always had to deal with this when I was going to Ukraine. is in Ukrainian and in Russian the word that translates it, it means remorse. So we always have to spend a lot of time correcting people's understanding that no, this isn't remorse, it is confession. And repentance even in the English dictionary has an emotional overtone whereas the word that is used in the Greek and Hebrew either has the idea of changing your mind or changing your direction, turning to God. And then the fact that he is a model king, he is a type, what they call a type of Christ. So we look at his anointing which takes place in 1 Samuel 16 after Saul has announced that God has rejected Saul as king. So then he is, Samuel is sent by God to the house of Jesse, the family of Jesse. And he goes there looking for somebody, one of the sons is looking for somebody who looks like he's a king. Even Samuel falls into the same trap as the people did when they looked at Saul. He's looking on the outside. And God said, I'm looking on the inside, not on the outside. And he goes through all the sons of Jesse and God doesn't indicate that it's any one of them, and so Samuel turns to Jesse and says, is there another one? And apparently, you know, David's the runt of the litter, at least figuratively speaking, and he says, oh yeah, there's the kid, and he's out there with the sheep. And so Samuel said, bring him in, and then he anoints him. Now everybody thinks of David at this point as something, and we see all these animations of David and Goliath, that David's a kid. But when he is asked by Saul, he said, well what makes you think that you can defeat Goliath? Aside from the spiritual things, David said as a shepherd, when, and the idea in the Hebrew is really whenever this would happen. that a lion would come in or a bear would come in, then I would grab the lion by his beard and I would hit him over the head with my staff and kill him. Now that means he's got to have a certain level of physical strength to be able to kill a lion or a bear with his bare hands. Now a prepubescent boy is not able to do that. He's probably a year or two shy. He has to be, I think, 19 to be in the army. He's probably a year or two younger. But he's been out there doing all kinds of work and labor. So he's fit. And he is not just pictured as some kid. that's going up against the giant. He has experience trusting God to protect him when he is doing his job to protect his sheep. Because that's what he's doing. He's trusting God that when the animals come in that he has to, he's the only one there to protect his sheep. And he just has to trust God that God's going to give him the ability to kill the lion and kill the bear. So we read in 1 Samuel 18 10 to these verses 10 and 11 and 25 to 27. It happened on the next day that the distressing spirit from God came upon Saul. This is the next day after David has been anointed. And he prophesied inside the house so David played music with his hand as at other times but there was a spirit in Saul's hand. Now what's interesting I want to make a comment on this word prophesy, because we think of prophecy as speaking something, as telling something, and especially involving saying something about the future. But there's a passage, and I just thought of this when I saw this so I don't have it on top of my mind, but there's a passage in 1 Chronicles, I believe, that talks about David organizing the choir. and he lists the musicians, the chief musician and the head of the choir for the temple. And he says he and his sons prophesied with lyre and the other various instruments. Singing is used, I mean prophecy is used to describe singing. And the same thing was Miriam was called a prophetess, but the only thing we know that Miriam did was she composed a hymn. after they crossed the Red Sea. And also Deborah was called a prophetess, but she doesn't do what Isaiah or Jeremiah did, but there's the song of Deborah in Judges chapter 5. And so this word prophecy also related to singing. So that's what I think is going on here. Otherwise it's just so weird, Saul goes out and he sees the prophets and he's prophesying with them, Well, what does that mean? Well, it makes sense if what he's talking about is singing with the prophets. So that's what I believe is going on here. It's the only thing that makes sense. And music is in the context. David played music with his hand. Verse 11, And Saul cast the spear, for he said, I will pin David to the wall. So David escaped his presence twice. So what we learn about this is that Saul is also being tormented externally. He's not demon possessed. The Hebrew word does not mean in. It is a preposition that means upon. So it's an external influence of oppression on King Saul. And so he is depressed, he's defeated, he's lost his dynasty, and so he tries to kill David. Then in verse 25 we read, and Saul said, Thus you shall say to David, The king does not desire any dowry, but one hundred four skins of the Philistines. So this is when David wants to marry his daughter Michelle. And so Saul wants to, okay, we're going to kill him another way. So if he's got to bring me 104 skins, then the Philistines will take care of him in the process. And so he sends David out like that. So David defeats and kills the Philistines. He kills 200 of the Philistines in verse 27 and brought and circumcised them, their dead bodies, and brought that back and threw them at Saul's feet. So Saul was defeated again. God provided protection for David. So during this time Saul, I mean David is David is a sort of a type of the church because he's been rejected, he's been anointed but he's rejected and now he's out in the wilderness and being persecuted. So like Christ, Christ came, he offered the kingdom, he's rejected and he's crucified and he goes to heaven and the church is as it were in the wilderness of the world. and he is being persecuted. Saul here functions as a type of Satan although Saul was a believer. So you go through this, it covers this whole period from 1 Samuel 18 to the end of Samuel when David is being hounded and persecuted by Saul. So he fights in a number of battles And as a result he gains the way he is, his character, his leadership, he gains the allegiance of the men of Israel. Through this time Saul continued to send teams of soldiers out to search for David to kill him. David also had to fight several times against the Philistine army. And he also was involved in killing off the last of the Amalekites that Saul had not destroyed. So all of these are listed here on your, I think this is the second page of your notes. And finally David had to escape because he made a couple of bad decisions in the process and he went to hide among the Philistines. So David's road to become king was not smooth, not easy, and yet he earned the allegiance of the people and he earned their loyalty because he trusted God. Throughout this whole situation a couple times he didn't and he learned from his lesson and so he continued to show his loyalty to the people. So the first point that they make, this is on the third page, is that David was an excellent warrior and leader. And we read in 1 Samuel 17, 45 through 47 Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. This will be fighting Goliath. But I come to you in the name of Yahweh, the Lord of the armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. then all this assembly shall know how the Lord does not save with sword and spear for the battle is the Lord's and he will give you into our hands." So he clearly is trusting the Lord. In 22, 1 and 2 we see later David departed from there, escaped to the cave of Adullam. So when his brothers and all his father's house heard it they went down there to meet him and then everyone in distress came and followed him. So they trusted him over Saul. And so he continued to be a leader because of God's hand was on him. Second point, which is on the next page, is that David had tremendous faith and confidence in God. This is described in various episodes in 1 Samuel 24 and 26. So he had tremendous faith He submitted to God. When he had the opportunity to kill Saul, he said, I will not lift my hand against the Lord's anointed. This is a very important passage to teach the importance of authority orientation, especially to children, the responsibility to obey authority, unless they're telling you to do something that violates what God is telling you to do. So he refused to rebel against Saul. He refused to take Saul's life when God put Saul at his disposal. And so he showed that he was going to wait on the Lord to give him the kingdom. He was not going to do something to take it himself. So this is in 1 Samuel chapter 24 and 27. So one of the examples I give is in chapter 26 verses 7 and following down to verse 11. where David and Abishai came to the people by night and there Saul lay sleeping within the camp and his spear stuck in the ground by his head. This is the second episode where David had the opportunity to take Saul's life. So Abishai says to David, God's delivered your enemy into your hand this day, now therefore please let me strike him at once with the spear right to the earth and I will not have to strike him a second time, he's just going to spear him right into the earth. But David says to Abishai, do not destroy him for he who can stretch out his hand against the Lord's anointed, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless? David said, furthermore, as the Lord lives, the Lord shall strike him or his day shall come to die and he shall go out to battle and perish. The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord's anointed, but please take now the spear and the jug of water that are by his head and let us go. So David recognizes that when you have somebody, even if they're a loser, even if they're a failure, and they're in a position that God has elevated them to the position of authority and leadership in the nation, then our responsibility is to be respectful of that position and to trust the Lord to provide the change. A key verse that you should be memorizing during this time is at the end of Daniel 2.20 and then Daniel 2.21 where Daniel says, blessed be the name of God forever and ever for wisdom and might are his and he changes the times and the seasons. It's not global warming or climate change. God changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and raises up kings. Okay? So no matter what happens, no matter who the loser is that gets elected, and even if it's done by illegal means when we get to November, God is the one who removes kings and raises up kings and gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. So we recognize that even though Many things may have been done wrong in getting the person elected to office They're the ones that God allows to be and has raised up for that that position So that's what David recognizes here that God has God has been the one to Elevate Saul and God is the one who will give David the kingdom when the timing is right God has perfect perfect timing So because David was secure in that, he prevented the people from doing something that would have been not only horrific, but would have led to a terrible civil war. So Saul, in contrast, did not honor the Lord and obey him. So we see David is totally different from a ruler who's operating on his sin nature operating on a pagan worldview. Then after David becomes king, he extends grace to the house of Saul. And 2 Samuel 9, 1 we read, Now David said, Is there anyone who is left of the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? Jonathan was Saul's son and also was killed on Mount Gilboa at the time of Saul. So David extended grace to his family and did not seek revenge on his family, typical in the ancient world. And if a dynasty is removed from the throne, then everybody, then the next king that comes in kills everybody in the family. So there won't be a civil war against him. Also, we learned that David is skilled in music. And he composed music, he composed many of the Psalms, more than 70 of the songs in the book of Psalms was written by David. He wrote Psalms that praised God and described what God had done. We've recently taught on that on Sunday morning. There were lament Psalms. And we get a great insight into how a person works his way through adversity by reading these Psalms that David wrote, we get insight into his thinking. Next, B, we have King David, and one of the significant things that he did was he brought the Ark of the Covenant of God into Jerusalem. Now, if you remember, the Ark of the Covenant was captured by the Philistines at the Battle of Aphek which is here. This was Shiloh, this is where the ark was kept, where the tabernacle was for over 300, Protestants will say over 350 years, the Jews have, they differ, it's over 325 years. That's why you'll hear some different numbers there, but it's well over 300 years. Think about that. So when the temple, somebody who knows math real well can help me with this, The temple is dedicated in 989 B.C. 989 B.C., and then the temple is destroyed in 586. Okay, so that is about 403 years, right? 403 years. So the Ark is like, I think, about 350 years at Shiloh. It's only, the temple's only in Jerusalem for 50 years or more. That's a long, long time that the ark was at Shiloh. That's over three centuries. And that's why when you get Dr. Stripling and his team working at that dig there at Shiloh and they manage to be able to continue work there during the summer. I can't imagine what kind of security they must have because there's a lot of terrorism going on in Samaria all summer and ever since the war last year. But they have found piles and piles of animal bones. No pig bones. And that's what you would expect at the site where they're having sacrifices day in, day out for the daily sacrifices. large numbers of sacrifices during the times of the feast days. And they didn't find any bones where a lot of people thought the ark was. And where we were told it probably was the first time I went there, which was back in about 2011 or 12. And so they were just walking back, he's told the story here before last year, they were walking back towards this little bit of a knoll and he said, maybe we should ought to dig here. He said, there really wasn't a reason. I just thought, well, let's just sink a hole here and see what we find. And they sunk a hole and they found just a bunch of bones. And they're all from clean animals. They're not from pigs. And that's one of the ways that they can tell that when they find a settlement or a village or something, ancient village or something, and they do an archaeological dig, they know it was a Canaanite town if they find pig bones. But if it's a Jewish settlement there were no unclean animals, no pig bones. Just thought you'd like to know that little extra tidbit. So the ark has this, it's taken by the Philistines and it goes down to Ashdod where they put it in the temple with Dagon. And you all remember the story where Dagon falls down and like he's worshiping the ark of the covenant the Philistines come in the next day and the priests of Dagon are all upset so they stand him back up And then the next day they come back in and now he's down, his feet are cut off and his hands are cut off. And so God is showing that. And then they all get, it's translated hemorrhoids, it's probably some kind of boils or disease or something. And so they get rid of this nasty thing and they ship it off to Gath and then to Ekron and finally it makes its way to Kiriath-Jerim where it is stored for a while until David takes it into Jerusalem. And it is during that time it's at the house of Obed-Edom and his house is blessed during the time that the ark is there. We're told about this in 2 Samuel chapter 6. Now it was told King David saying the Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with gladness. And so it was when those bearing the ark of the Lord had gone six paces that he sacrificed oxen and fatted sheep. Picture this in your mind. How far is six paces? That's about like from the first row to the fourth row. then they stop. And then they have sacrifices. They have sacrifices of sheep, and they have sacrifices of oxen. Oxen are large animals. They have to eviscerate the animals. There's a lot of blood. Sometimes we just go past this. We don't think about what is involved in this. If it's a burnt offering, I'd have to look at the Hebrew. If it's a burnt offering, they have to build a fire and consume everything. This took a lot of time, then they go six more paces. So you go to the fourth row, then you go to the last row back there, and you do it again. And you do it again and again and again on their way in. Now along the way they had a little mishap. And in the little mishap what happened was that the oxen stumbled and one of the priests Uzziah sticks his hand out to stabilize God. No one's allowed to touch the ark, and so he is struck dead instantly. That's a lesson that God is a wholly distinct God, and he can take care of himself. He can stabilize himself. He can, you know, even if the oxen stumble, God doesn't stumble. It goes on to say, David danced before the Lord with all of his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod. Now, they did the film King David. Who was the actor who played David? Richard Gere, yeah. So Richard Gere comes out and does basically a 60s type of dance where people just got out on the dance floor and did whatever they gyrated however they wanted to. I don't think that's what David did, but that's how we think about it because of our culture. Okay? That image is put in our mind. And there's a lot of dancing that is very orderly and is very choreographed and is not just going out there and randomly moving around however you want to. Everything we know about the worship of God, everything is structured and orderly and planned. And so I think that what we need to extrapolate from what we know to what we don't know and say no it wasn't just a random gyration however he wanted to move but that he was doing something that was planned with precision and was choreographed. Verse 15, so David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet So they brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. So now the tabernacle has been moved from Shiloh to Jerusalem. David had erected for it, then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. And when David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. Then He distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to every one a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, every one to his house. This was typical in a thanksgiving or praise sacrifice, is that the meat of the sacrificed animal or the bread that was cooked in a grain offering, that this was then shared with all of the people and they would then take it home. So it's a picture of God sharing his bounty with the people. Is that what? They may have changed that. You know they get their trans... but this is the new King James. I substitute that for the New Living Translation that they have. A loaf of bread, a piece of meat, a cake of raisins. I don't know. I'd have to look at that. Maybe in another verse, not one I copied here. So we see that in Israel there's this division of labor that you have the king is in charge of the political, the leadership of the nation, protection of the people from internal problems of chaos and criminality and external threats for foreign enemies, and the priest functions in a religious matter. So you have this distinction. And we go back to the time of Moses where initially Moses is trying to do everything, then the elders, and then his father-in-law comes along and says you really need to have, share this with a number of the leaders, the elders, And that's where we get the House, the example of the House of Representatives. This was a passage that founding fathers would quote. They would go back to Jethro telling Moses, you don't have to have a singular leader, you need to have this team of leaders. And so that was a basis for arguing for the two houses of Congress. It's also interesting that it's a foundation in the Bible's foundation, the thinking of the organization of the Texas state legislature. So you say, well, how do you know that? How many representatives are in the Texas state legislature? Anybody know? How many senators are in the state Senate? Let me tell you how to remember it. How many chapters are there in the Psalms? 150 state legislatures. How many chapters are there in Proverbs? 31 state senators. There will be a test on Thursday night. The Bible influenced how the founders of this nation and this state organized government. On the religious side, you have the Levitical priests. So the Levitical priests are descendants of the tribe of Levi. These 12 here are the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 sons of Jacob, and Judah. Kings come from Judah. So David is a picture of Jesus, the anointed king. The first picture we see is of the priest king Melchizedek. back in Genesis chapter 14. And then the second picture we have is of the priest-king which is David. He's functioning as a priest-king when he is performing the sacrifices, dancing before the Lord. It is related to Melchizedek. He's not functioning as a Levitical priest-king. And all of this is to picture the future messianic king, the universal priest-king ruler when Christ returns and establishes the messianic kingdom ruling over Jews and Gentiles from Jerusalem on the throne of David. So again we have this job division, political matters to the king, religious matters to the priest, and both will be fulfilled in the global priest-king of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Revelation 22, 16, the last chapter of the Bible near the very end of the New Testament, Jesus says, I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star. So third then we come to Yahweh makes an unconditional covenant with David. And so we look at the Abrahamic covenant, in relation to the Abrahamic covenant you have the Noahic covenant here on the left which is unconditional, no global flood. You have the Abrahamic covenant which is unconditional and it's a promise of land, seed, and worldwide blessing. Land, descendants, and worldwide blessing. And the Mosaic covenant was a conditional covenant blessings for obedience and cursings or judgment for disobedience. This is the Abrahamic covenant really gets broken down into three components in three additional covenants. Now they use the word sub-covenants and I'm going to talk to them about this. I don't think they're sub-covenants because the Davidic covenant is an autonomous covenant on its own and the New Covenant is an autonomous covenant on its own. So I don't think the word sub-covenant is, I would say if you have a sub-covenant, it's the covenant that, oh, what's his name? The priest that comes along and numbers, it's around 25 or 26, when after the episode with Balaam, then Balaam tells Balak, the king of Moab, says, the way to trick them is to send all your pagan prostitute priestesses into among their men and that will distract them. And then, who is it? Phineas. Phineas is the high priest and he gathers up a group of priests and they go kill all the men. And so God makes an eternal covenant with him that the priesthood will not depart from his descendants. So it goes through that line. The land covenant is indicated in Deuteronomy 29.1. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab. Not Sinai, but on the land of Moab. It's a distinct covenant. besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. So this is an additional covenant. You'll find maybe some pastors and some theologians will say, no, this really isn't, but it is. That makes it very distinct. It's given in the land of Moab and it is besides the covenant given in Horeb. In Deuteronomy 30 verse 3, after the Israelites have turned back to God, God will bring them back from captivity throughout the world The Lord your God will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. So here is a diagram of the covenants. You have the Abrahamic covenant. I want to fix that a minute. Okay. You have the Abrahamic covenant, land, seed, worldwide blessing, and then you have the expansion in three distinct covenants, the land contract, land promise, the Davidic covenant, and then the new covenant. So those are how they are related. And all of them, because they expand on the provisions of the unconditional Abrahamic covenant, they are all unconditional. So God is going to make a covenant with Israel, 2 Samuel 7, 11 through 16. It begins, Since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies, also the Lord tells you that he will make you a house. Now that doesn't mean God's going to give him a five or six bedroom house, three baths, and a five car garage. He's going to make a dynasty. That's what house means. It's a dynasty, a family of descendants that will rule. Verse 12, he says, when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed. Notice, seed, the descendants after you who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom. So he's talking about, here he's talking about Solomon. who is his son. He shall build a house for my name. Okay, this is talking about, God has said I'm going to build your house, but your son is going to build a temple for me. So it's called the bayit ha-mikdash, the holy house. Kadash, you can hear the K-D-S-H in mikdash. You put an M at the front of a verb and it makes it a noun. So it goes from kadash, which is the verb, to mikdosh, which is the noun. It's the holy house. And it's the bayit, bayit is the house. So it's the habayit, mikdosh, and the holy house. I'll build a house for, he'll build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. So that's the line of descendants from David. I'll be his father, he shall be my son if he commits iniquity. See, this isn't talking about Jesus. Because he says if he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But my mercy shall not depart from him. God is saying, I will be faithful to the covenant. Just because he really messes up to the max, I'm not going to take the throne away from him like I did with Saul. My mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. And your house, house, kingdom, throne. That's the Davidic covenant. Your house and your kingdom shall be established forever. Your throne shall be established forever. Not for just a very long time, but forever. So this chart in your notes gives you the breakdown The king will have a father-son relationship with Yahweh. This is 2 Samuel 7, 14a, I will be his father, he'll be my son. And so David's descendants will enjoy a father-son relationship with Yahweh. Number two, if David's descendants sin, they will be disciplined but never rejected. David's dynasty will be eternal. 2 Samuel 7, 14b-15, if he sins I will correct and discipline him with the rod like my father would do, but my favor will not depart from him. I guess I didn't get all the verse in there. If the kings sin, then they will be disciplined, but David's dynasty will survive. And then we come down to David's dynasty will always be in Jerusalem. 2 Samuel 7, 16, your house and your kingdom will continue before me for all time, and your throne will be secure forever. That's why I keep saying, Jesus returns, establishes the kingdom, establishes his central place of rule from Jerusalem. And that will be in the millennial temple, which I don't know if we even covered that in this curriculum. Okay, so that's it. So what we have here is an immediate fulfillment. David's son rules after him. Solomon builds a temple. Solomon's not perfect and he will sin. God will discipline him. but God will remain faithful to His covenant. So we have David and his line through Solomon goes to Joseph and the line of Nathan goes through Mary and Jesus. The problem is you have Jeconiah in this line who is so disobedient God says your descendants will never rule. So that's called the Jeconiah curse or the Keniah curse. So Joseph The genealogy in Matthew 1 is not to give like the legal title. No title passes down through the line of Jeconiah. It's to show that Joseph can't be Jesus' father and for him to have any claim to the throne. So Joseph is, it shows Joseph can't be the father because of the Jeconiah curse. He can't be the physical father. He can't even be the adopted father. He's out. I mean the legal father rather than adopted father. Nathan's line goes down through Mary to Jesus and that gives him inheritance rights to the throne of David. First Chronicles 29-23, then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father and prospered and all Israel obeyed him. And then we come to the adultery and murder in 2 Samuel 11, 1 and 2, and I believe this is where I am breaking the lesson between Part 1 and Part 2. I believe this is correct. Yes, this is where we're breaking. We will come back and look at this, start with the adultery and murder next time. Now there's a chart, looks like this in your notes, and I don't know why, but I could not for the life of me get that to copy and paste into my notes. In the Noahic, it's just a summary of the covenants. So across the top you have the five covenants we've had so far. The Noahic Covenant, Abrahamic Covenant, Mosaic Covenant, Land Covenant, and Davidic Covenant. And the parties involved in the Noahic Covenant, it's God and mankind. The promises, no No future global floods. God signs it with the rainbow. So every time you see a rainbow, you know, what do you know? What do you know? Number one, the Earth's not going to flood again. Number two, eat meat. Number three, execute the criminals. Everybody just stops at one. but the covenant includes all three of those. Okay, Abrahamic covenant. God, Abraham, and his descendants, lands, descendants, and worldwide blessing. It's also unconditional. God alone passed between the animals. The Mosaic covenant is the only one that's unconditional. A better term, really, is it's temporary. And it's between God and the 12 tribes of Israel. They will be blessed if they obey the laws, and they will be judged or cursed for disobeying the laws, and the sign is the Sabbath. The sign for the Abrahamic covenant was circumcision. The land covenant doesn't have a sign mentioned, and it's the promised land belongs to Israel forever and ever, even if they're disobedient and removed from the land. I've had people try to tell me that, well, none of this applies to the modern Jews in Israel because they're disobedient. Really, let's think about that a little bit. Because you see, the Israelites were pretty disobedient it seems to me in the Old Testament. And God blessed those who blessed them and judged those who cursed them, even though They were committing the same pagan atrocities of sacrificing their babies in the fires of Moloch and Chemosh while they're having sex in front of the altars. God bless those who bless them and curse those who curse them. So God's unconditional promise in the Abrahamic covenant is not mitigated by the fact that that David, I mean by the fact that they're out of the land and they're unregenerate or they're back in the land and unregenerate. Because they're still God's chosen people. He's not talking about whether they're saved or not. Okay, the Davidic covenant, God, it's between God and David and his descendants. And the promises are that the king will have a father-son relationship with Yahweh. David's dynasty will be eternal. and David's dynasty will be in Jerusalem. There's no sign mentioned, and it is unconditional. So next time we'll come back to look at David's failure in the adultery and the murder. Father, thank you for the opportunity to go through this, see the relationship of Saul, Saul's failure, David, David's successes, David's heart after God, the Davidic covenant, and how all of this is pointing the way to the Messiah. and pulling all of these different loose threads of the Old Testament together for us. Help us to understand these things and see these correlations and how important they are. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.