What are the Sure Mercies of David?

Knowing the answer to this question will greatly help you to understand Bible prophecy, as demonstrated in a recent Facebook discussion I joined in with a few comments of my own:

8-15-23 What are the Sure Mercies of David

My Facebook friend, Duane Burgess, recently posted this on his Facebook page, and this led to quite a discussion!

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Biblical Eschatology.

In sound biblical hermeneutics & exegesis there is no allegorizing, no spiritualizing and no replacement theology.

It has been wisely said, do not present your eschatology until you master Zechariah.

God has one Redeemed people, but He deals with the saints in various ways from generation to generation.

God also has unique distinctions for ethnic national Israel and for the Church.

The Church is not, in any way, Israel.

The Church has dealt with error from its beginning, 2000 years ago.

The churches got some things wrong and some things right.

Paul would establish local churches, then he would turn around and issue correction and even rebuke.

The Church fathers got some things wrong and some things right.

Premillennial eschatology is taught in Scripture and was believed in the early Church (Chiliasm).

The Pretribulational Rapture is taught in Scripture and was believed in the early Church.

The Church has mistakenly been moving away from sound biblical eschatology since the first century.

Amillennial and Post Millennial beliefs have no exegetical biblical support.

There is no biblical or historical fulfillment yet of Daniel’s 70th week. God has future plans for ethnic national Israel, to purge and cleanse that people in great tribulation, her time of Jacob’s trouble.

To get prophecy and Scripture right we must embrace God’s unique distinctions for ethnic national Israel and for the Church.

 

My Comment:

Included within Romans 9:24-33 is a most important statement:

Rom 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (ESV)

Much Bible prophecy is closely related to the Biblical Covenants already given, particularly the Abrahamic and the Davidic Covenants.

Isa 55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. (KJV)

 

Bradley responded (8-10-23):

re read the convents. To ABRAHAM. I will bless those who bless you. You will be a blessing to ALL families of the earth. ALL here means every people group. Abraham was not a Jew or part of ISRAEL. Israel is 2 generation later. Noah surely wasn’t a Jew. What kind of Jew would name their son HAM!!!

My response to Bradley (8-15-23):

You still may be missing the full truth of Scripture. I mentioned two Biblical Covenants, the Abrahamic and the Davidic.

The New Testament book of Matthew begins with the statement:

Mat 1:1  The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Carefully searching the Scriptures by means of cross reference Bible study will shed much light and provide a more accurate understanding of what the Bible itself actually teaches.

of David. Matthew necessarily proves the Saviour to be the son of David on account of the promise that he should, as David’s son, sit on David’s throne (Luk 1:32, Isa 9:6, 7) in fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant (+**2Sa 7:10).

of Abraham. Matthew proves the Saviour to be the son of Abraham as “the seed of Abraham in whom all nations of the earth should be blessed” (Gen 17:5, Gal 3:16, Rom 4:16) in fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant (+**Gen 12:2 note). Luke in his genealogy establishes our Saviour to be the son of Man (Luk 3:23; Luk 3:38) to prove him “the Seed of the Woman” (Gen 3:15), the “Second Adam” (1Co 15:47), the Redeemer of man, and the restorer of his lost inheritance (Psalms 8; Heb 2:5, 6, 7, 8).

The text I cited before, Isaiah 55:3, is key to the proper understanding of natural or ethnic Israel’s connection to these great eternal and unchangeable Covenants:

Isa 55:3  Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Just what are the “sure mercies of David”? These may be learned by a study of what the Bible itself says about them in other passages of Scripture, pointed to by cross references:

Isaiah 41:9
9  Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
King James Version

Leviticus 26:42
42  Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
King James Version

Leviticus 26:44
44  And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
King James Version

Leviticus 26:45
45  But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
King James Version

1 Kings 11:39
39  And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
King James Version

Psalms 94:14
14  For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
King James Version

Jeremiah 33:20
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;
King James Version
Jer 33:21  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.
Jer 33:25  Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer 33:26  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

Zechariah 10:6
6  And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
King James Version

Mal 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Rom 11:1  I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:28-29
28  As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29  For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
King James Version

“Without repentance” is translated “are irrevocable” in the ESV.

 

Bradley stated (8-10-23):

It does not say ALL ETHIC ISRAEL will be saved. Read it again in context with the rest of Romans. Israel is out, the Gentiles will come in, Israel is back. In this way ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED. In context Jews and Gentiles make up ALL ISRAEL. Any pagan grammar teacher can see the grammar use here.

For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: [7] Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. [8] That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. Rom 9:6-8

 

My Comment (8-15-23):

Paul’s immediate reference to “but the children of the promise are counted for the seed” must be understood in accordance with the immediate following context stated in Romans 9:9,

Rom 9:9  For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

Jews and Gentiles do NOT constitute “all Israel.”

Paul cites the Bible prophecy when he wrote what we have in our Bibles as Romans 11:26, where Paul said:

Rom 11:26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Rom 11:27  For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

all Israel. This is a direct reference to the future conversion of the Jews in the land of Israel, and has nothing to do with “spiritual Israel” or the church in this age, as proven by Paul’s citation of Messianic prophecy later in this verse from Isa 59:19-20.

Isaiah 59:19-20

19  So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

20  And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. King James Version

Thus, though Ishmael was also a son of Abraham, his offspring or seed are not the children of promise for the promise was stated that through Sarah the promised seed will come.

Therefore, the Scripture does not teach that “all Israel” is composed of both Jews and Gentiles!