Originally Posted by
Muffled
I believe this is a bogus requiement. God doesn't care about men's rules for inheritance. He believes He should be king. All that is required for the prophecy to be fulfilled is for Jesus to be of the seed of David and one can be sure God made no mistake about that.
Hi Muffled,
Jer 33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; ...20 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; 21 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 .
God promised David that he would never have a woman carry his throne, as long as we still have day and night that is.
A virgin birth would claim David did not have a son or wanted for a man.
Fletch
Hi Fletch, Let's go back to Jer.23:5-6 " Behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."
Let's go back to Deut.33:27-29, "In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places."
Remember Deut. was prior to the Israelites clamoring for a king.(As had the other Nations.) Now look at Zech. 14:9-11, 20 , "And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and [from] the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. And [men] shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited."......"In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar."
This scene is the same as Isaiah 66:22-23 presented after the earth is made New. "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, [that] from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. "
It is the son of man, Mary's Jesus/SON of GOD by the incarnated Holy Spirit--Jesus, who is the prophesied "Branch"---the "THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS". Who is the coming "King of kings and Lord of lords" of that prophesied new earth and Heaven.
(1Tim.6:15; Rev.17:14; 19:16)