Ezekiel 21:26

The King is Coming

I. God is announcing the end of the kingdom of Israel. "Remove the

diadem, and take off the crown."

A. God had promised to David that He would establish the throne

of his kingdom forever. IISam.7:16

1. This was a conditional promise.

2. I Kings 2:4 David declared to Solomon that the Lord had

said to him, "If thy children take heed to their way,

to walk before Me in truth with all of their heart, and

with all their soul, their shall not fail thee a man on

the throne of Israel.

a. This should put to rest that fantasy that

Jeremiah spirited one of the descendants of

David to England where he became king over

other Jews that had settled there, and that the

present Queen of England is a direct descendant

of David.

b. Those who assert this fail to recognize that

the promise to David was conditional.

3. The truth of the matter is that the descendants of

David were filled with iniquity and transgressions. God

called the current king Zedekiah the profane wicked

prince of

Israel.

B. God's original plan for the nation of Israel is that they be a

Theocracy, a nation ruled over by God.

1. There came a tragic day in their history when the

people came to the prophet Samuel and demanded a king

like the other nations around them.

2. God told Samuel not to mourn, for they had not rejected

Samuel from ruling over them, but they had rejected

God's rule over them.

3. God showed Samuel that he was to anoint Saul as King

over Israel.

4. Saul showed a lot of promise.

a. He was tall and handsome.

b. He came from a good home.

c. He was humble.

d. He was filled with the Spirit of God.

e. There went with him a company of men whose

hearts God had touched.

5. Saul began to show great weaknesses.

a. He became prideful.

b. He began to turn against the godly men around

him.

c. He began to rebel against the rule of God in

his

life.

d. God declared that he would take the throne from

Saul and give it to a man after His own heart.

e. David was that man.

f. God then promised to David that if his

descendants would walk before God with all of

their heart and soul, that there would always

be one of his descendants upon the throne.

g. David understood from this promise that God was

declaring that the Messiah would be a

descendant of David.

II. It was accepted and acknowledged that the King of Israel would be from the tribe of Judah, and the house of David. A. When Jacob was dying and had called his sons to his bedside to receive the final words from their father, as he faced the sons from the eldest to the youngest, he began to prophesy over them. 1. When he came to Judah, he declared that the scepter would not depart from Judah nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. 2. Shortly after the birth of Jesus the Roman government took from Israel the powers of capitol punishment, reserving that right for Rome only.

Many of the priests went through the city with sack cloth and ashes bemoaning the fact that the promises of God had failed, for the lawgiver had had departed from Judah, little did they know that Shiloh was even then growing up in Nazareth. B. The Messiah was to be the rod out of the stem of Jesse, the Branch out of his roots. Isa. 11:1 C. In Jeremiah 23:5 God promised: "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."

D. Jeremiah 33:15 "In those days and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land, for thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel. E. Amos prophesied, "In that day I will raise up the house of David that is fallen, and I will close up the breaches, and raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old." F. In Luke 1 the angel told Mary that she was to conceive and bear a Son who she was to name Jesus, the angel went on to say that He would be great, and God would give to Him the throne of His father David, that He would reign over the house of Jacob, for ever, and of His kingdom, there would be no end.

G. In John 7:42 the Pharisees said: Do not the scriptures say that the Messiah will come from the seed of David, and out of the city of Bethlehem the city of David? H. Jesus fulfilled these requirements, He was from the tribe of Judah and the house of David. 1. Zechariah had prophesied "Rejoice O daughters of Zion, shout for joy daughters of Jerusalem for behold your king is coming, He is just having salvation, but He is lowly riding on a donkey, and on a colt the foal of a donkey." 2.

When Jesus came riding into Jerusalem on that donkey the people began to shout, "Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." I. God is now declaring that He is going to overturn, overturn, overturn the kingdom, He is going to remove the diadem and take the crown from the profane wicked prince of Israel. They will have a king no more. 1. Does this mean that the promises of God to David were rescinded? 2. No, the promise was actually twofold, one was conditional they did not fulfill the conditions, thus the throne will be empty for a time. 3.

But the word of the Lord to David still stands, and the Messiah the King is coming to establish the throne of David forever. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, and of the increase of His government and peace, there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order and establish it with judgment and justice from henceforth, even for ever.

III. The promise of the coming king. I will overturn, overturn, overturn,

until He comes, whose right it is; and I will give it to Him.

A. Jesus told His disciples that He was going away, but He

promised that He would come again.

1. As Jesus ascended into heaven from the Mt. of Olives

leaving the disciples standing their in wonder, two

angels in white apparel stood by them and asked, "You

men of Galilee, why do you stand here gazing into

heaven, this same Jesus shall come again in like

manner as you have seen Him go into heaven."

2. Matt.25:31 Jesus said, "When the Son of Man comes

in His glory and all of the holy angels with Him, then

shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.

3.

In Luke 9:26 Jesus said, "If any man is ashamed of Me

and My words, the Son of Man shall be ashamed of him

when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the

Father and the holy angels.

B. Daniel prophesied in 7:13 "I saw the night visions, and behold,

One like the Son of Man, came to the Ancient of days and they

brought Him near before Him, and there was given Him dominion,

and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and

languages, should serve Him; His dominion is an everlasting

dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which

shall not be destroyed."

1.

Daniel also prophesied of a final world governing power

that would be composed of ten kingdoms that were

related in some way to the Roman empire, and during the

time of the reign of those ten kings, the God of heaven

shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed.

2. There are two current possibilities presently for the

fulfillment of this 10 kingdom confederacy.

a. The European Community that will take a giant

step forward at the end of this year.

b. The proposed 10 economic communities envisioned

by the Trilateral Commission, of which the

European Community is the first to come into

realization.

C. Jesus said that His return would be necessary to save the world

from destroying itself.

1.

Our current policies concerning the HIV virus is a

threat to the survival of mankind on this planet.

2. The American public is being lied to by the liberal

media, and the government concerning AIDS in order to

protect the homosexual community, when the truth is

finally realized, I predict a tremendous backlash

against both the government and the homosexual

community, who were willing to put all of our lives in

jeopardy in order to protect their lascivious life

style.

3. Look at the economic woes facing the world today. There

is hardly a government in the world that can live

within its means, and ours the worst of all. Look at

the fiasco we have just gone through in Sacramento with

the current State budget.

4.

Wars have become more sophisticated and deadly.

D. I am convinced that the One whose right it is ready to return

and take the throne of David, and begin His righteous rule over

the earth. Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus