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God's Tabernacle With Man

I. The many promises God made with His people Israel.
A. He would bring them into the land of Israel, and would place
them in their own land.
1. About the turn of the century God began to put it
into the heart of many Jews to return to the land.
2. The Zionist movement began to raise money to buy
property in the Sharon valley, and the valley of
Megido, which were both swamps, they established
drainage systems, and opened up the rivers to
the Mediterranean and began to plant citrus orchards
in the Sharon plain, and grain crops and cotton in
the Megido.
3. They established a Jewish quarter in the old city,
and settlement which was outside the old city walls
in an enclave they called Mia Shareem.
4. When Hitler began his deliberate attempt to
exterminate the Jews many of them fled to Israel
which at the time was under British control. Britian
tried to limit the number of emigrants coming into
the land, but the Jews came pouring in. Exodus II is
a fascinating book that deals with this period of
history.
5. Those Jews that were suffering persecution in Russia
were also anxious to return to Israel but were
prohibited by the Russian government. But in the last
few years that barrier has been removed and many more
Jews came from the North to resettle in land of
Israel.
B. That when they returned, they would no longer be two nations,
or divided into two kingdoms, but one nation upon the
mountains of Israel.
C. My servant David shall be king over them. That His servant
David would be their Prince forever.
1. This portion of the prophecy takes us into the future,
it has not as yet been fulfilled.
2. This is fulfill a promise that God made to king David.
a. David had decided to build a house for God, to
contain the Ark of the Covenant which was
still in a tent.
b. David was told that he could not build a house
because of his bloody hands, but that God
would build him a house, and that from his
seed, one should rule over Israel forever.
3. Throughout the Old Testament the many prophets
alluded to this promise of God to David.
a. Isa. 9:6,7.
b. 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.
c. Jer. 33:15-20. How certain is the promise to
David? If you can break the covenant with day
and night, then you can break the covenant
God made to David.
d. Eze.34:23,24 And I will set up one Shepherd
over them and he shall feed them, even My
Servant David; He shall be their Shepherd.
And I the Lord will be their God and My
Servant David a prince among them; I the Lord
have spoken it.
e. Hosea 3:4,5 For the children of Israel shall
abide many days without a king, and without a
prince, and without a sacrifice. Afterward
shall the children of Israel return, and seek
the Lord their God and David their King; and
shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the
last days.
f. Amos 9:11 God promises to raise up the
tabernacle of David that had fallen.
g. Matthew begins his gospel with these words,
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ,
the son of David, the son of Abraham.
h. Many times Jesus was addressed as the Son of
David.
i. When Jesus was making His triumphant entry
into Jerusalem Matthew tells us that the
multitudes began to shout, "Hosanna to the Son
of David."
j. As Jesus closes the book of Revelation to John
He declares in 22:16: "I Jesus have sent my
angel to testify unto you these things in the
churches, I am the root and offspring of
David."
4. The Jews seemed to have a penchant for missing God's
leaders the first time around.
a. The Psalmist spoke of the stone that was set
at naught by the builders becoming the chief
cornerstone.
b. God had chosen Joseph to rule over his
brothers, but they sold him for 20 pieces of
silver to slave traders headed for Egypt,
thinking that they had rid themselves of this
dreamer, who in his dreams had seen their
sheaves bowing down to their sheaves. Later
they did bow down to him and recognized his
authority.
c. When Moses came to the camp of Israel in Egypt
and saw a Egyptian beating his Jewish slave,
Moses killed the Egyptian and buried his body
in the sand. The next day as two Jews were
fighting, Moses sought to end the dispute
among them, but they challenged him saying,
"Who made you to be ruler over us? Are you
going to kill us like you killed the Egyptian
yesterday." And Moses fled to the desert. The
Bible tells us that Moses thought they knew
that God had chosen him to deliver them. Later
Moses came back and led them out of Egypt.
C. God promises to make a covenant of peace with them, it
will be an everlasting covenant. It is quite obvious
that this promise has yet to be fulfilled, it shall
not be fulfilled until He comes whose name shall be
called, Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the
Prince of Peace.
D. My tabernacle shall be with them. God will dwell among
the people.
1. John tells us that In the beginning was the
word, and the Word was with God and the Word
was God, and he declared, and the Word was
made flesh and dwelt among us. The word
translated dwelt is the Greek word, skaynoo
which means to tent, or encamp. Thus the Word
was made flesh and tabernacled among us.
2. In John's vision in the book of Revelation,
when he saw the new heaven and the new earth,
and the holy city the new Jerusalem, he heard
a great voice out of Rev.21:3 heaven saying,
"The tabernacle of God is with men, and He
will dwell with them, and they shall be His
people and God Himself shall be with them and
be their God.
3. Thus this portion of the prophecy is still
future even beyond the kingdom age, when God
has created the new heaven and the new earth.
4. Read Rev. 21:4-8
E. David declared in the scripture reading, "And I shall
dwell in the house of the Lord forever."






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