In Christ alone, my hope is found He is my life, my strength, my song This cornerstone This solid ground through the pierces When prayers are still I just wanted to review. This is the second class out of five in a series. The first class was the introduction. We're going to get deep into the Scriptures tonight. The purpose of this class, if you're new to the class, it's for us and it's for our friends. It's for us to strengthen our own faith in Jesus.
And it's for our friends that we can more effectively persuade them using the evidence of the Scriptures. In the last class, I encourage everyone to throw down the gauntlet and challenge people in a kind and loving way and ask the question, " If I could prove to you from the Old Testament prophecies that Jesus was the Son of God, would you follow him? " I asked a friend of mine that I've been friends with for 40 years. I threw it down. I asked him the question.
I said, " If I could prove to you from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ, would you believe? And would you follow Him? " And he said, " Yes, I would. " I said, " I really appreciate your courage in saying that. " He says, " Now, you're going to have to prove it to me. " But he said, " I've always thought of both of us as being truth seekers. " He said, " What kind of truth seeker would I be if I said no to that?
" He said, " You're going to have to prove to me that nobody monkeyed with the Scriptures over time. " And he said, " I've got problems with some of the things that Paul taught. " I said, " We'll get to those later on. First, let's figure out if Jesus was the Son of God and He rose from the dead. " And I've been asking other people in my life, my neighbor, my coworker, " Do you believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead? " What do you believe about that? It's sparked some really good discussions.
So let me encourage you to take it in the same direction. Where do we start in the Old Testament? I want to start with the prophecies that focus on the king and the kingdom. But why start there? The reason is because that was the main focus of Jesus ' teaching. In Matthew 24:14, he says, " This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all nations, and then the end will come.
" Paul ends in Acts 28 in Rome, in a rented apartment, in a rented house, spending two years there, and he says he's preaching the kingdom of God. The message that Jesus and the apostles preached was not a personal salvation with a personal Savior. The message that was preached was the kingdom of God. Also, really, I think, in my opinion, Jesus is presented so many ways in the Scriptures. He's presented as the Savior, the high priest, the sacrificial lamb, the Son of God, and the Son of Man.
But He's presented more than anything else as the king over the kingdom of God throughout the gospels. All four gospels in the first chapter, the first thing we learn in Matthew, Jesus Christ, the Son of David, and it goes through the whole line of kings. In Matthew chapter 2, the three wise men say, " We've come to seek the king of the Jews. " In Luke chapter 1, when the angel Gabriel talks to Mary, she's told that she would have a son who would be king over a kingdom that would never end, the kingdom of David.
And even in John chapter 1, Nathaniel says, " You are the king of Israel. You are the Son of God. " When Jesus is crucified, it says above his head on the cross, the king of the Jews. He's given a crown of thorns and the royal robe when he's mocked and spit upon by the Roman soldiers. He came into the world and he died as a king. So I want to start with the prophecies that talk about the king over God's eternal kingdom.
Now, the focus of this study, the core of it, is really going to be looking at prophecies associated with David. So I'm going to break it up into prophecies before David, the prophecies associated with David and those after that all talk about the kingdom. Now, I think this is one of the greatest stories of all time, the story of the kingdom. So if you're bored tonight, it's only because I'm doing a lousy job. Let me encourage you to dig into the Scriptures on your own. But there are twists and turns in the plot.
There are tragic defeats and glory in the end. In Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 13, I encouraged people last week in our last class to look at those passages of Scripture. And you can see in there with Peter and Paul, they focused on the kingdom of God and David as the king that Jesus comes in the line of. Kingdom prophecies before David. Let's start off with Abraham. Now, God made a lot of promises to Abraham. And maybe you can think of some of them in your mind. There's so many promises to Abraham.
God promised that Abraham and Sarah would have a son in their old age. He promised that after 400 years in captivity, that his descendants would inherit the land of Canaan. It said that his descendants would be as numerous as the sand on the seashore and the stars in the sky. They said that he would be the father of many nations and all families would be blessed through him. But I want to focus on two more promises that were made to Abraham.
One was it says, " In your seed, singular, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. " And then one that people never think of, in Genesis chapter 17, when Abraham and Sarah were given their new names, God says, " I will make nations of you and kings will come from you. " It's one of the first prophecies about the kingdom, that kings would come from Abraham. Of course, Abraham is the father of Isaac, Isaac, the father of Jacob, and then Jacob is the father of 12 sons.
So the promise of the line of kings passes from Abraham to Isaac and Jacob. And Jacob, as he is approaching death, blesses his 12 sons. And I want to turn there to the blessing that's given the fourth son, which is Judah. I'll be reading from Genesis chapter 49. All right, come on now. Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise. Your hands shall be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion's cub. From being a shoot, my son, you have grown up.
He bows down and slept as a lion and a cub. And who shall rouse him? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from his loins until Shiloh comes. " And some translation says, " The one comes to whom it belongs. And to him shall be the expectation of the nations. " So what does this prophecy tell us? The first thing it says his brothers would bow down to him. The second one, it's a little strange. It says, " He's like a lion, " but it doesn't talk about the lion roaring or devouring anything.
It says, " He's like a lion. He sleeps and who shall rouse him? " Now, that's an odd thing to say about a lion, isn't it? Every lion sleeps every day and then wakes up after it sleeps. So what is prophetic about a lion that sleeps and then wakes up? Well... In the scriptures, what does sleep often mean? Death. Daniel chapter 12, " Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. " Now, we're not talking about creating a giant pile of dust and people taking a nap underneath it.
It's obvious we're talking about death there. We're in John chapter 11, a passage that most of us are quite familiar with. Lazarus is sick, and Jesus says, " Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go that I may wake him up. Like a lion, he sleeps. Who shall rouse him? " 1 Corinthians 15 says, " We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed at the last trumpet. " Matthew 27, " When the righteous saints of the past are raised up after Jesus dies on the cross, " it says, " The saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
" In Acts chapter 7 with Stephen, it says, " He fell asleep. " And the notes that I'm handing out so you can relax because we're going to hit a lot of scriptures tonight, I give other examples as well. So what do you think it means when it says that as a lion, he sleeps, who shall rouse him? The lion of the tribe of Judah.
And then the last part of the prophecy here, it says, " The ruler's staff, the sign of a king's rule over his kingdom, the ruler's staff will be reserved for the one who will come and the nations will look to him. " This is Judah, one of the 12 sons of Jacob. I want to move forward to the time of David and give you a little background. The 12 tribes go into captivity in Egypt. Moses leads them out. There's a period where they're led by the judges, where there's no king. Finally, the people cry out for a king.
And Samuel anoints Saul as the first king. Saul, of course, is disobedient to God, and he is rejected as the king, and Samuel is told to anoint David the man after God's own heart. After the death of Saul, over a period of several years, David consolidates the kingdom. He gains control over the kingdom. He builds a palace for himself, and he brings the ark to Jerusalem with dancing and great fanfare. And at this high point in his reign, he has an idea. He has an idea. He says, " What's wrong with this picture?
I'm living in a palace, but the Ark of God is out in a tent. " So he has this great idea, " Why don't I build a temple for God? " Nathan the prophet says, " Great idea, David. Go ahead. " That night, the Lord comes to Nathan and says, " Tell David not to do that. That is not a good idea. That's not my plan. " And then one of the greatest prophecies in all the Bible, one that Christians are not that familiar with, in 2 Samuel chapter 7. I want to read that from 2 Samuel chapter 7.
This is God speaking to Nathan who passes the Word along to David. Pay attention to every word of this prophecy. This is worthy of great meditation. This is one of the most important prophecies in all Scripture. You'll see traces of it throughout the New Testament. Here is what Nathan was told to tell David. When your days are fulfilled and you rest in the old Septuagint, it says, " Sleep with your fathers. I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
" David, of course, is a descendant of Judah. " He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I'll be his father and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I'll chasten him with a rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. " There's a parallel passage in 2 Samuel chapter 7, the story is repeated in 1 Chronicles 17. In 1 Chronicles 17:14, it reads, " And I will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne shall be established forever.
" Slightly different wording, but very similar idea. I asked someone recently, " Who do you think this prophecy is talking about? " They said, " Oh, it must be Solomon. He's the son of David. He became king after David, and he's the one who built the temple. " Well, somebody else thought it was Solomon too. David did. And someone else did too. Solomon did. Solomon thought and kind of hoped that it was him, that this prophecy was referring to. He was quite familiar with this prophecy.
To ask ourselves, was Solomon the man? Solomon asks for wisdom. He's given wisdom more than anyone before him. Solomon builds the temple and when it's time to dedicate the temple, Solomon gives this great prayer to God. And in the prayer he says to God, in 2 Chronicles chapter 6, he says, " Lord, I am David's son. I sit on the throne and I've built the temple. " We're on a roll here. He says, " I just have one question for you. Lord, can you please make sure, see to it that the rest of the promise is fulfilled?
I want the eternal kingdom, if you don't mind. " In the next chapter, the Lord replies to Solomon in chapter 7. He doesn't say yes, and he doesn't say no. But God says to Solomon, " Your throne will be established forever if you and your descendants follow my commands and obey the ordinances given to Moses. " Uh-oh. He says, " On the other hand, if you disobey my commands and go worshipping other gods, your line will be uprooted and the temple that you just dedicated will be destroyed. " Solomon abandons God.
In Deuteronomy 17, Moses said, " When you have a king, here's the things you're going to need to make sure the king does. Don't multiply wives for yourself. " Solomon had 700 wives. I don't know where you crossed the line from adding to multiplying, but this is higher math multiplication here. 700 wives and 300 concubines. And it says that when he became an old man in kings, his wives led him astray. He married foreign women. They led him astray. And Solomon was out worshipping other gods on the high places.
In Deuteronomy 17, Moses said, " Don't multiply gold and silver for yourself. " Solomon did that in abundance. He became a very wealthy man. Solomon's desire for the flesh dragged him away from God. You think maybe there's a lesson in there for us somewhere? Wisest man who ever lived up until that time and the flesh pulls him away even into idolatry where he abandons God. God keeps his promise. It was a conditional promise that he would get the kingdom if he stayed faithful to God.
Solomon's descendants, most of them, continued on the path of wickedness until finally the Babylonians came. They besieged Jerusalem, smashed the walls. They took the last King Zedekiah, killed his sons before him, and then put his eyes out, dragging him off in shackles into captivity. Jerusalem was destroyed. God's patience had been exhausted for 70 years of captivity in Babylon. So what happened to the promise? Solomon thought he was the man.
It was an early Christian writer who lived from about 250 to the early 300s named Lactantius. He's talking about this promise made to Solomon. And he said, " There's no way it could have been Solomon. " He's arguing with Jews and saying, " Yeah, the promise applied to Solomon. He's the son of David. He was the king. He built the temple. " He said, " Impossible for four reasons. " I think this is pretty cool.
The promise that we read earlier, it says, " The promised son would be raised to the throne after David's death. " He says, " When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will raise up one of your own offspring. " Did Solomon come to the throne after David was dead or while he was still alive? Okay. I missed that one. Lactantius is schooling me here. The second one, Lactantius says he's arguing with the Jew. He says, " It was promised that this kingdom would last forever.
" Solomon's kingdom lasted how long? 40 years? And even if you look at his descendants, it was maybe a few hundred. The third reason, it was promised that the temple, in the passage in Chronicles, the temple be established forever. Solomon's was destroyed by men. And then the last one, which I think is really cool. Solomon was never called the Son of God. He was only called the Son of David. And that was a promise. God said, " I will be his father and he will be my son. " I missed that one. Okay. The Son of God.
When I was in Albania, I was arguing with Muslims there and they said, " you know We don't believe that Jesus died on the cross. We don't believe He rose from the dead. We believe He was a great prophet. He was the Christ. But he couldn't be the Son of God because God can't have a Son. I heard that many times. Christians didn't invent this. This was written 1,000 years before the birth of Jesus. That the king would be called the Son of God. There's a lot of confusion about this term Son of God.
Some people in other cultures think, " Oh, it means that God and Mary got together. " It's like something out of Greek mythology. God and a human got together and produced a half breed. Now he's the Son of God. Jesus was the Son of God before all ages. When we say He's the Son of God, we mean He came from the Father. The Father didn't come from Him. He was not a created being, but He had His origin in the Father. He came from the Father as a ray of light comes out of the sun that's in the sky in the same sense.
That's why he's referred to as the Son of God. But he always existed. He has origin in the Father. That's what we mean by Son of God, not God and Mary coming together and having a Son. That was only the Son of God becoming flesh. Let's turn to Psalm 2. And where's the first place in the Bible that it talks about the Christ? You pull out your concordance and it might put you to Matthew chapter 1. But we're going to look at a place that's a thousand years before that. In Psalm 2, it's quoted by Peter.
You don't have to believe me. It's quoted by Peter in Acts chapter 4, and you can read what it says there because he's reading it out of the Greek. Psalm 2, " Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed. " When Peter's quoting this in Acts chapter 4, it says, " And against His Christ. " The word Christ is Greek. Messiah is Hebrew.
In John chapter 4, the woman at the well says, " We know that when the Messiah comes, which is the Christ, He will tell us all things. " So we know from John chapter 4 that Messiah and Christ mean the same thing. In English, it means the anointed one. All three words mean the same thing. So Peter is absolutely right when he says, " The rulers take counsel against the Lord and against His anointed or against His Christ. " Saying, " Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast their cords from us.
He who sits in heaven shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them in derision. He shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree, " the Lord said to me, " You are my son. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me and I'll give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them to pieces as a potter's vessel.
Now therefore, be wise, O kings, and be instructed you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish in the way. When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in him. This passage right here, the Christ, the Son of God, the King, all referring to the same person. We learned from this passage here that God would set His Son on the throne as King.
The rulers of the earth would conspire against His Son, and that the Christ would rule as king over all nations over all the earth in the end. Psalm 110, also of David. Now David's writing this. He said, " The Lord said to my Lord, ' Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies. " David's writing this. Peter makes the point. The Lord said to my Lord, " Jesus makes the same point in Matthew chapter 22.
" He said, " Okay. " The Christ, whose son is he? How can it be the Son of David if David says the Lord said to my Lord? He's David's Lord. Of course, both of them are true. So the future king, the ruler, would be not only the Son of David, but also the Lord of David. In Psalm 16, read verses 8 to 10, " Another Psalm of David, I have set the Lord always before me because He's at, my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore, my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. My flesh also will rest in hope.
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol or Hades, nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. Sheol, Hades, that's the place of the dead, where the dead spirits go awaiting final judgment. He says, " You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will you let your holy one see corruption. " Psalm 89 and Psalm 132. Repeat the promise of 2 Samuel chapter 7. God said that one of David's descendants will be put on the throne. Psalm 89 says, " Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
His seed shall endure forever. His throne as the sun before me. " Sounds like God's pretty serious about this promise. In Psalm 132, verse 11, it repeats the same promise, " The Lord has sworn in truth to David. He will not turn from it. I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body. " Isaiah chapter 9, another kingdom prophecy memorialized in a song, " For to us a child is born. Unto us a son is given and the government will rest upon his shoulder.
His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end upon the throne of David and over his kingdom. To order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. A child is born. He'll be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Prince of Peace, no end to his rule, and he will reign on the throne of David and over David's kingdom.
Now I'd like to turn to another great Messianic prophecy from Isaiah. This is Isaiah chapter 11. I'll be reading from the Septuagint version, verses one to five, and then skipping down to verse 10. It says, " There shall come forth a rod from the root of Jesse, and a flower shall grow out of his root. The Spirit of God shall rest upon him. The Spirit of wisdom and understanding. The Spirit of counsel and might. The Spirit of knowledge and godliness. The Spirit of the fear of God shall fill him.
He shall not judge by reputation or convict by common talk, but he will judge the cause of the humble and reprove the humble of the earth. He shall strike the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips, he shall slay the ungodly. He shall gird his loins with righteousness and cover his sides with truth. It describes, it says that the Spirit will rest upon him and is a wonderful sevenfold description of the Holy Spirit in this passage.
Of course, this prophecy was fulfilled in the baptism of Jesus when it talks about the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove and resting on Jesus. This was the sign to John the Baptist that he was the one they were waiting for. The baptism of Jesus and the Holy Spirit coming on him is mentioned prominently in all four Gospels. It's in Matthew chapter 4, Mark chapter 1, Luke chapter 3, and John recounts it in John chapter 1.
The reason why the four Gospels mentioned this at the beginning of Jesus ' public ministry is its fulfillment of this prophecy about the Spirit resting on him. This prophecy also says that he would be a righteous judge, striking the earth with the word of his mouth, reminding me of the second half of Revelation chapter 19, the passage that talks about the sword coming out of the mouth of Jesus as the warrior king coming to judge the earth, the nations of the earth, the righteous judge who would rule all in the end.
And now going down to verse 10, " It shall come to pass in that day. There shall be a root of Jesse who shall arise to rule the nations. The Gentiles shall hope in him and his resting place shall be honorable. " And what do we learn from this great Messianic passage? It talks about a root, a branch that will come from Jesse. Of course, this Jesse is David's father, so obviously he's going to come from the line of David.
And then finally, it says in this passage that the Gentiles would seek this great Jewish leader who came from the line of David. Son of Micah chapter 5. So a familiar passage because it's quoted in Matthew chapter 2. Micah chapter 5:2, " But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me, the one to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting. " It's kind of a mysterious sense to it.
It says that the ruler would come from Bethlehem and his goings forth are from old, from everlasting. The Son of God is from everlasting. He's from before all ages, even though he's born in Bethlehem. Ezekiel 34 is an indictment of the wicked shepherds over Israel. At the end of Ezekiel chapter 34, God promises that He would establish one shepherd over His people, one who would feed them, protect them, and deliver them. He says, " David will be their shepherd and their prince among them.
" That's about 600 years before Christ. Daniel, about 550 years before the birth of Jesus, this is a low point in the kingdom of God on earth. The temple had been burned. The walls have been smashed. The nation's been hauled off into captivity. And at this low point, God reveals to Daniel in a series of visions and dreams that the kingdom is not lost, that God is sovereign, and he will establish the kingdom that will last forever.
Daniel chapter 2:44, " And in the days of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other people. It shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and shall stand forever. " Daniel chapter 7, verses 13 and 14. Daniel says, " I was watching in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him.
Then to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed. " Daniel chapter 9, it's known as the prophecy of the 70 weeks. It's been a long time since I've heard a message on this particular prophecy. 70 weeks or 70 sevens, literally, is what it's talking about. 70 weeks or 70 sevens. I want you to think about this.
Think about the sequence, and then we'll talk about the numbers in just a minute. This is the angel Gabriel explaining the future to Daniel. Verse 24, " Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city. To finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince that shall be seven weeks and 62 weeks. The streets shall be built again and the wall, even in troublesome times. And after the 62 weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall come with a flood. Until the end of the war, desolations are determined.
So let's get the sequence here first before we get into the numbers. Jerusalem is destroyed. He says Jerusalem will be rebuilt. The walls and the streets will be rebuilt. So Daniel's in captivity. Jerusalem is smashed. He says that Jerusalem will be rebuilt, and we know that happens under Ezra and Nehemiah. He says, " Then after that happens, the Messiah will come and he will be cut off. " And does that expression the Messiah being cut off tie in with any scriptures?
I think in Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 8, it says that he would be cut off from the land of the living. In the Septuagint in Daniel 9:26, it says, " The anointed one shall be put to death. " And then after that, the city of Jerusalem would be destroyed for good. The temple would be destroyed, and the city would be destroyed by the king who was yet to come and his people. And when did that happen? Happened AD 70. Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus in 70 AD. This was a huge event.
You go in Rome and over by the Colosseum, you'll see the Arch of Titus. And this is a relief from the Arch of Titus, where you can see the Roman victorious soldiers carrying back the trumpets and the menorah taken from the temple, taken back to Rome as spoils of war. Josephus talks about this. He said that there was blood everywhere. The city was destroyed and a million Jews were killed. It was a four-year rebellion against Rome and Romans taught the Jews and everybody else in the world the lesson.
This coin right here is called the Judea Capta. The Romans for many years struck coins to commemorate the destruction of Judea and the fall of Jerusalem in that great battle that's marked by the Arch of Titus. And there's literally pieces of the temple left over from the Romans when they pulled everything down. It should be no surprise if Jesus said that was going to happen. He talked about it in Matthew chapter 24 and Mark chapter 13.
So the Messiah would be cut off before the city was destroyed, after it was rebuilt and before it was destroyed. So think about that. If anybody's still waiting for the Messiah to come, they miss the boat. One other thing, I throw it in the notes here. It says to be 62 weeks and seven weeks, 62 plus 7 is 69. Okay. 69 sevens. You multiply that out. That comes up to 483. Straight math.
It just so happens that it says from the edict to rebuild Jerusalem, the edict of Artaxerxes, which is talked about in Nehemiah chapter 2, was in the month of Nisan in 444 BC. Add to that 483 lunar years, and it takes you to March of AD 33. Is this a coincidence? Now we get to the exciting part of the study. The fulfillment of the prophecies. Matthew chapter 1 starts off. Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Why does the New Testament start off saying that Jesus is the son of David? Now you know why.
Matthew chapter 2, the magi come. Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? And Luke chapter one, this is, to me, very exciting. Luke chapter 1 starting in verse 26. The angel Gabriel, the same one who revealed to Daniel in Daniel chapter 9 the story of the 70 weeks. The angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she's going to have a son. And in view of all we've studied, listen to this passage one more time. Luke 1:26.
" Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to the city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, " Rejoice, highly favored one. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women. But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, " Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Highest. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom there will be no end. Then Mary said to the angel, " How can this be since I don't know a man? " The angel answered and said to her, " The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the highest will overshadow you.
Therefore also, the Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. " John chapter 2, when Jesus clears out the temple, they say, " Who are you? What authority do you have to do this? " He said, " Destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in three days. " Acts chapter two. Go back and now after you've read all this, read that again on your own. Peter, it's a three-point sermon and his points are David, David, and David. It rhymes in any language.
Peter says that God fulfilled the promise to raise up the Christ to sit on the throne in fulfillment of the promise made to David and in Psalm 2. It says that he was resurrected. His flesh did not see corruption in fulfillment of the promise made to David in Psalm 16. And it says, " Not only is he the son of David, but he is the Lord of David, " as David himself said in Psalm 110. Therefore, he is both Lord and Christ.
These prophecies were made, starting with going back to Moses, who's recording the first five books, 1,500 years before the birth of Jesus. David, 1,000 years. The prophets 700 to 550 years before the birth of Jesus. All of them were fulfilled in Jesus. Consider this. Jesus was descended from David's seed in fulfillment of the promise made to David. He was raised to the throne after David had died. He reigns over a kingdom that will never end. He is the one who raised the temple that will endure.
He is called the Son of God. In fulfillment of what was said to Abraham, " All the nations of the earth will be blessed through him, Abraham's seed. " His origins are from ancient times from everlasting. He was born in Bethlehem. The Holy Spirit would rest on him as it says in Isaiah chapter 11. He'd be opposed by the leaders of the world conspiring against him. He is the promised king, the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God. He will rule over the whole earth. He will judge all with righteousness.
He is both the Son and the Lord of David. He would be the one compassionate shepherd over all of God's flock. He would be cut off, killed after Jerusalem was built, but before it was finally destroyed in AD 70. His coming would bring an end to sin and bring in everlasting righteousness. His body would not see decay. He would be resurrected and the Gentiles would seek him. Amen. My hope is found. He is my life, my strength, my song. This cornerstone This solid ground