A House Built On A Promise

The story of the Bible is built upon the promises God makes to His people and their fulfillment.   #daybydaylw   Interested in learning more about becoming a devoted follower of Christ? Go to follow.lifeword.org!   ~~~   In order to understand the significance of 2 Samuel 7, then we first must understand that God is up to something before we even get to 2 Samuel 7. So like we have said, we cannot read the Bible as an anthology of separated stories that convey moral lessons for a happy life. This is not like Grimm’s Fairy Tales, of distinct stories that teach us good principles for living the good life. The Bible is a cohesive story of who God is and what He is doing in this world He created. And the major storyline is that God is rescuing and redeeming a people and creating a kingdom of people from every tribe, tongue, and nation. He chooses to start this kingdom with the Jewish people, and from them it will incorporate and spread to all the earth. God established a covenant with Abraham, promising to do this very thing in Genesis. God established a covenant with Moses beginning in Exodus 19 to bring blessing on His people when they obeyed, and curses when they strayed from His word of how life is to be lived within this kingdom. And now, in 2 Samuel 7, God establishes the Davidic covenant, which has to do with zeroing in on an aspect of the Abrahamic covenant. In the Abrahamic covenant, God promised that through Abraham’s seed, all the families, or ethnic groups, of the world would be blessed. In the Davidic covenant, that promise of a seed is focused in on David’s lineage. So once again, just take note that the Bible is a story, and what we are seeing is that story is built upon promises that God makes His peoples and then God fulfills those promises in the most miraculous of ways.