British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 2:
Israel DEMANDS A King!
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 2: - Israel DEMANDS A King!
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 3: - God Tells David His Long Term BIG PLAN
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 4: - Confirmation in Prophecy Of David’s Continuous Royal Line
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 5: - The Decline Of David’s Line
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 6: - British Israel Becomes A Faith Message
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 7: - Melchizedek And Jesus
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 8: - The Eternal Role Of Christ
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Parts 1-8
Revision
In Part 1 we looked at the covenant promise through Abraham and Isaac of a king, on an earthly throne, to rule over this everlasting kingdom! With the land of Canaan and the title deed, being the circumcision!
Aim
In Part 2 we look at what lead up to Israel wanting a king and what God thought of the issue. Then a very brief look at how David came into the picture
A King For Israel!
Just imagine it is 1049 BC and you see all this stuff on your ‘internet’, on your ‘stone tablet' and your hearing it from your Wi-Fe! Cause she is telling you all this gossip! ‘We want a king to rule over us like other kingdoms have’; ‘Samuel find us a king!’ ‘A king for Israel!’ ‘Please give a Thumbs-Up if you agree and want a king!’ Ha Ha! But it was typical election lobbying, refer 1 Samuel 8:4-6. The short story is that Samuel got reluctantly dragged into the selection process, but God told him to tell the people “The Privilege Of The King”
Samuel's Warning Against Kings
1Sa 8:10 “And Samuel told all the Words of Jehovah to the people who asked a king of him. :11 And he said, This will be the privilege of the king who shall reign over you. He shall take your sons and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and his horsemen. And they shall run before his chariots. :12 And he will appoint commanders over thousands, and commanders over fifties, and some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and weapons for his chariots. :13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. :14 And he will take your fields and your vineyards and your olive-yards, the best, and give them to his servants. :15 And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his eunuchs and to his servants. :16 And he will take your male slaves and your slave girls, and your finest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. :17 He will take the tenth of your sheep, and you shall be his servants. :18 And you shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.”
In other words God said; “IS THIS WHAT REALLY YOU WANT!” And the elders of Israel still said YES! 1Sa 8:19. Ultimately Saul was chosen to be king over Israel and if you go to 1Samuel 10:19-21, it seemed like Samuel used some guidance from the Lord for a selection process, perhaps ‘Urim and Thummim’, the bible doesn’t say. Finally by God's leading Saul was chosen to be King of Israel. So you would think Saul would have turned out to be good value for Israel wouldn’t you? 1Sa 11:6 “And the Spirit of God came powerfully on Saul when he heard those words,” that Jabesh-gilead was under siege. But only two chapters later in 1 Samuel chapter 13, Saul did the wrong thing. Saul was told to wait until Samuel arrived to make the sacrifice. But no Saul jumped the gun and did the sacrifice himself. In verses 13 and 14 Samuel tells Saul his kingdom is finished and that God has told Samuel there is someone else who will take the throne of Israel. From then on Saul just continued making mistakes. And later when Samuel went to find David it was obvious that Saul was watching Samuels’s actions.
Check your bible to see if it has main headings. Just by skimming through the headings you can see the demise of Saul’s reign over Israel. Just look at these headings given in italics for example: - 1Sa 12 Samuel's Farewell Address, (Samuel goes into retirement). 1Sa 13 Saul Fights the Philistines, Saul's Unlawful Sacrifice. 1Sa 14 Jonathan Defeats the Philistines, (but he eats some honey). Saul's Rash Vow, (any one who eat will be put to death!). Saul Fights Israel's Enemies, 1Sa 15 The Lord Rejects Saul! 1Sa 16 David Anointed King, (God choses a man after His own heart!). David in Saul's Service, (David is brought in to play the harp to sooth Saul from the evil spirit sent by God!). Finally; 1Sa 17 David and Goliath. Eventually David becomes a member of Saul’s entourage and gains the favour of ALL and the jealousy of Saul! 1Sa 28:7 Finally Saul got involved with witchcraft before a final big battle in which he and his son were killed.
During Saul’s reign God sent Samuel off on a covert mission to select another king for Israel, refer 1 Samuel 16. God sent him to Bethlehem, ‘find a bloke by the name of Jesse and one of his sons is the one I’ve chosen’. So Samuel gets to Jesses‘ house, on some pretext he is there just to do something else. (Because Saul already has wind of the idea Samuel is looking for a replacement king!) And when Samuel gets there to pick one of Jesses’ boys: the lad is not even there! He is some stripling of a kid name David, and he’s out looking after the sheep. So even Jesse didn’t consider presenting him before Samuel to be chosen! But David got anointed and from then on things all paned out according to ‘God’s BIG PLAN’ for the start of an everlasting royal family line. But not without some major hiccups; Saul often tried to have David killed or try to kill him himself. All great skull doggery reading! But when David did become king, he had to face a couple of civil wars, along with wars against Israel’s’ enemies. But all through those trying times the one big difference between Saul and David is that David most often sought the Lord as to what to do, his Psalms are full of him enquiring of the Lord.
You can do your own study of King David’s reign; most of it is outlined in the second book of Samuel. The book of 1 Kings has the final years of David and the, ‘back-stabbing’ lead up to the Anointing of King Solomon. Then I find it interesting that in closing David’s reign, David gives Solomon a ‘Hit List’ in 1 Kings chapter 2. But let’s back up the story line a few years to where God had a chat with David. In part 3; British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 3 - God Tells David His Long-Term BIG PLAN and see what God tells David about His ‘BIG Plan' for both Israel and David's eternal family line.
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