British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 5:
The Decline Of David’s Line
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 I looked at the covenant promise to Abraham of an everlasting throne and royal line from his seed, and the Promised Land. Part 2 we saw that Israel ‘Demanded’ God to give them a king, with first Saul the ‘rotten egg', and then finally how David comes to power. Part 3 we focused on what I called ‘God’s BIG Plan’, and the promise of an everlasting family lineage of David to rule over Israel. BUT Israel will be permanently moved to a new location? Part 4 we did a quick search for scriptural conformation of the promises to David.
Aim
I want to look at the slow down fall of David’s family line. And try to answer the age-old argument “But the throne of David Doesn’t exist ANY MORE!”
The Decline Of David’s Line
I have put these passages in just to show that God would correct the royal line of David if they ‘stepped over the mark’. As God said above in 2Sa 7:14 “I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men.” Here is just a hand full of times when God stepped in! You can go to these verses yourself and look at the history and the lead up to the downfall of David’s throne.
2Sa 12:7 “And Nathan said to David, You are the man! So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah also has put away your sin; you shall not die.:15 And Nathan left to go to his house. And Jehovah struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.” Eventually the child died.
Jer 22:30 “So says Jehovah, Write this man down as childless, a man who will not be blessed in his days. For no man of his seed shall be blessed, sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.”
Jer 29:16 “so says Jehovah of the king who sits on the throne of David, and of all the people who dwell in this city, and of your brothers who have not gone out with you into captivity; :17 so says Jehovah of Hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the plague, and will make them like worthless figs which cannot be eaten from badness.”
Jer 36:30 “Therefore so says Jehovah of Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.”
There are many more like these, ‘Write this man down as childless”? God severs the family line and transfers the throne to another member of the royal line of David, because the corruption of the reigning king has finally become intolerable! Ultimately we know from biblical history that Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians. The temple was destroyed, which we know from history! At the same time in history, the family line of David was ended! (Or most think that is so!). Let’s look at some scriptures.
The Last Davidic King in Jerusalem
It happened in 686 BC. From a timeline point of view you can go to, e-Sword/Graphics Viewer/Timelines/Chart 14: 690 570BC. The right half of the chart has a wealth of information. It shows the three groups carried away to Babylon, the dates and the last male line of David, King Zedekiah. Also the chart shows the group that took Jeremiah and fled to Egypt. Let’s read some scriptures about all that.
Jeremiah 52:5 “So the city was under attack until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. :6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine was very grievous in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. :7 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden. (And the Chaldeans lay around the city all around.) And they went by the way of the plain. :8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him. :9 And they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgments against him. :10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah. :11 And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.”
Well the last king on the throne of David is dead! And all his sons where put to death in front of him, then he was carried away and died in prison! Therefore most people say surly the line of David is finished? No because there is still a family line on the bases of an OLD Mosaic Law found in the book of Numbers chapter 27. So who is the heir to the throne?
Jer 43:4 “So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of Jehovah to live in the land of Judah. :5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations (where they had been driven) to dwell in the land of Judah; :6 men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. :7 So they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of JehovahORD. So they came to Tahpanhes.” [NB: - “JehovahORD”?? ..that must be a funny ‘TyPo’ in eSword]
So, the king's daughters were still alive and were carried off to Egypt along with Jeremiah and Baruch, Baruch was Jeremiah scribe. And you can be quite sure that Jeremiah would know how to maintain the royal line of David if there was a legitimate way for it to come about. After all we know from 2 Kings chapter 11 that queen Athaliah ruled in Israel for some years until she got the cop! So a Queen on the throne was legitimate. And if Jeremiah didn’t know some legal loophole, then I’m sure God would have told him how to solve the problem. But there already was an OLD Mosaic Law that perfectly suited the situation! It cropped up because of a situation back before Israel entered the Promised Land. You can refer to Numbers chapter 27 and have a read.
The short story is a bloke by the name of Zelophehad died during the 40 years in the wilderness. He hand no sons but five daughters. These girls fronted up to Moses and others and presented their case! Verse 4 “Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he has no son? Therefore give us a possession among the brothers of our father. :5 “And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah. :6 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, :7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers. …:8 And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. etc. etc.” We have a classic case of Probate here! The King is dead; and there are no surviving sons! Who inherits “the estate”? The Kings daughter! If that’s the case then what happened to the Kings daughter?
What Happened To The Throne Of David?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I have heard this sort of phrase; “The Throne Of David Doesn’t Exist Any More!” If people say that, with all those promises to David’s family line listed above; then they must be really “GAME” people! Because they are virtually saying, “God is a Liar!” Or “God is impotent and can’t achieve what He says He’s going to do!” Or they think God is stupid and He sends out His angels with stupid instruction, like when He sent Gabriel to Mary to tell her she is going to give birth to the Christ. And Gabriel said in, Luke 1:32 “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:” Then those scoffers laugh and say, “BUT The Throne Of David Doesn’t Exist Any More!” Those sorts of people are about as smart as Ananias and Sapphira of Acts chapter 5.
At this point we have to switch over to “legions”. I know what you are thinking; “WHAT! Legions? I thought this was a bible study?” Well we do know that Nebuchadnezzar with his army came to Egypt and destroyed it. Jer 43:8-13. And in all of that passage, there is no written record of Jeremiah, Baruch or the king's daughters, so what happened to them? Well to answer that question, let’s go to Part 6; British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 6: - British Israel Becomes A Faith Message
