Covenanted

2 Chronicles 7:15-18 – Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

Nehemiah 1:5-6 – Then I said: “Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.

Isaiah 9:7 – Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

Jeremiah 33:17-18 – For this is what the Lord says: ‘David will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of Israel, nor will the Levitical priests ever fail to have a man to stand before me continually to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to present sacrifices.’”

Isaiah 55:4 – See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.

Micah 5:2 – “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

Application:

• ·         A true sense of the awesome holiness of God reveals the depths of our own sinfulness.
• ·         God is like a jealous lover who will not abandon His people.
• ·         Jeremiah 33:17 is fulfilled ultimately in Jesus.
• ·         “Witness to the peoples” was a reference either to David, who exalted the Lord among the nations, or to David’s Son, the Messiah, who was a light to the nations.
• ·         The ruler over Israel will be ultimately Christ, who will rule for God the Father.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV