Bryant Hewitt PRESENTS Part 2 Jacobs Trouble
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2And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
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Revelation 6
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Revelation 6
1And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.2And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
The End Time Prophecies
Daniel speaks of this same time. He writes, quoting the archangel Gabriel, who says to him: “At that time Michael the great prince who protects your people will arise. There will be a TIME OF DISTRESS such as has not happened from the beginning of time until then. But at that time your people -- everyone whose name is found written in the book -- will be delivered” (Dan.12:1).
The Moffatt Translation renders this verse, “There shall be a time of TROUBLE such as never has been since there was a nation.” He describes this awful period of the future as “the CRISIS at the end” (Dan.12:4), and, “the crisis at the CLOSE” (v.9).
Jesus Christ also spoke of these final, frenetic, tormenting, tremulous times. Looking into the future which will occur just before His Second Coming, He declared: “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel -- let the reader understand -- then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. . . How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.
“For then there will be GREAT DISTRESS, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now -- and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short [by the intervention and coming of the Messiah!], no one would survive [or be left alive on the planet earth!], but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened” (Matt.24:15-22).
Jeremiah, Daniel and Jesus Christ were all talking about the SAME FINAL END-TIME DISASTER AND TIME OF TROUBLE which will ENGULF the entire planet earth. There could not be three different “times of distress” all of them “unequaled in the history of the world.” Since each one of these is the “greatest” time ever of distress, they must all be referring to the SAME PERIOD OF TIME and the SAME GREAT DISTRESS!
Jeremiah is to write what God had spoken to him. The very words are such as the Holy Ghost teaches. These are the words God ordered to be written; and promises written by his order, are truly his word. He must write a description of the trouble the people were now in, and were likely to be in. A happy end should be put to these calamities.
Though the afflictions of the church may last long, they shall not last always. The Jews shall be restored again. They shall obey, or hearken to the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of David, their King. The deliverance of the Jews from Babylon, is pointed out in the prophecy, but the restoration and happy state of Israel and Judah, when converted to Christ their King, are foretold; also the miseries of the nations before the coming of Christ.
All men must honour the Son as they honour the Father, and come into the service and worship of God by him. Our gracious Lord pardons the sins of the believer, and breaks off the yoke of sin and Satan, that he may serve God without fear, in righteousness and true holiness before him all the remainder of his days, as the redeemed subject of Christ our King.
(Jer 30:1 KJV) The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, (Jer 30:2 KJV) Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Here, (Jer 30:1 KJV) The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord,…. The word of prophecy, as the Targum. Some make this to be the “thirteenth” sermon of the prophet’s; it is a consolatory one, as Kimchi observes: (Jer 30:1 KJV) saying; as follows:
(Jer 30:2 KJV) Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel,…. Who is their covenant God; has not forgotten them; still has a regard for them; and speaks after the following comfortable manner concerning them:
Jeremiah is directed to write what God had spoken to him, (Jer 30:2 KJV) saying, write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book; which perhaps refers to all the foregoing prophecies; being things of consequence, that they might remain to after ages; and be read to the use, comfort, and edification of the Lord’s people, in times to come; and be a support to their faith and hope, as well as be a testimony of the truth and faithfulness of God. Some think this charge refers to all the prophecies that go before, as well as follow after, to put them all together in a book or roll, that they might be preserved; though others think it refers only to the present prophecy; and so Kimchi interprets it, write all the words “that I am now speaking unto thee” in a book; which should come to pass in the latter day.
So John is bid to write in a book what he saw; the things that are, and shall be hereafter, (Rev 1:11 KJV) Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
He must write them and publish them, in hopes that those who had not profited by what he said upon once hearing it might take more notice of it when in reading it they had leisure for a more considerate review.
Or, rather, it refers to the promises of their enlargement, which had been often mixed with his other discourses. He must collect them and put them together, and God will now add unto them many like words. He must write them for the generations to come, who should see them accomplished, and thereby have their faith in the prophecy confirmed. He must write them not in a letter, as that in the chapter before to the captives, but in a book, to be carefully preserved in the archives, or among the public rolls or registers of the state.
Daniel understood by these books when the captivity was about coming to an end, (Dan 9:2 KJV) In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
He must write them in a book, not in loose papers: (Jer 30:3 KJV) For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
(Jer 30:3 KJV) For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord,…. and are yet at a great distance, and they are yet to come; the prophecy is not yet fulfilled. Kimchi says this belongs to the days of the Messiah; but not to his first coming, or to his coming in the flesh, which the Jews vainly expect; but to his spiritual coming in the latter day:
(Jer 30:3 KJV) that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord; great numbers of the ten tribes, with those of the two, which cannot be understood of their return from the Babylonish captivity; for, as Kimchi rightly observes, only Judah and Benjamin returned from thence; and though there were some few of the other tribes that came with them, especially of the tribe of Levi, yet not sufficient to answer to so great a prophecy as this, which refers to the same time as that in (Hos 3:5 KJV) 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 latter days. as appears by comparing that with (Jer 30:9 KJV) But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. and when, as the Apostle Paul says, “all Israel shall be saved”, (Rom 11:25 KJV) For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
(Jer 30:3 KJV) and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it; the land of Canaan, given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and which shall be again by the Jews their posterity; for, without that the Jews upon their call and conversion shall return to their own land, in a literal sense, I see not how we can understand this, and many other prophecies.
And this prophecy must be written, that it may be read then also, that so it may appear how exactly the accomplishment answers the prediction, which is one end of the writing of prophecies. It is intimated that they shall be beloved for their fathers’ sake (Rom 11:28 KJV) As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. for therefore God will bring them again to Canaan, because it was the land that he gave to their fathers, which therefore they shall possess.
He is directed what to write. The very words are such as the Holy Ghost teaches, (Jer 30:4 KJV) And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
These are the words which God ordered to be written; and those promises which are written by his order are as truly his word as the ten commandments which were written with his finger.
(Jer 30:4 KJV) And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel, and concerning Judah. Which follow in this chapter and the next; first concerning Israel, the ten tribes; and then concerning the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, even concerning all Israel; whereas, if this prophecy only respects the return from the captivity in Babylon, there is very little in it which concerns the ten tribes, or but a very few of them. The words may be rendered, “unto Israel, and unto Judah”; as being the persons to whom they were directed, as well as were the subjects of them.
(Jer 30:5 KJV) For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
He must write a description of the fright and consternation which the people were now in, and were likely to be still in upon every attack that the Chaldeans made upon them, which will much magnify both the wonder and the welcomeness of their deliverance:
(Jer 30:5 KJV) For thus saith the Lord,…. Yet what follows are the words of others; wherefore some supply it, “for thus saith the Lord, the nations shall say”; so Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it as what the Gentiles will say in the times of the Messiah; but it might be better supplied, “ye shall say”; that is, Israel and Judah; to whom the words of the Lord are spoken in (Jer 30:3 KJV) For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. or else the Lord here represents his people, saying:
(Jer 30:5 KJV) we have heard a voice of trembling, the shrieks of terror echoing to the alarms of danger. The false prophets told them that they should have peace, but there is (Jer 30:5 KJV) fear, and not of peace; so the margin reads it, which is to be understood, of the fear and dread injected into them by the Babylonians when they besieged their city, and burned that, and their temple; nor of the fear and dread which came upon the Babylonians at the taking of their city by Cyrus, upon which followed the deliverance of the Jews.
Kimchi interprets this of something yet future, the war of Gog and Magog, which he supposes wilt be when their Messiah comes; and Jarchi sans it is so understood in their Midrash Agadah. This distress, I think, refers to the slaying of the witnesses, and to that hour of temptation which shall come upon all the earth to try the inhabitants of it; and which will be followed with the destruction of antichrist; and that will make way for the call and conversion of the Jews.
No marvel that when without are fightings within are fears. (Jer 30:6 KJV) Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
The men, even the men of war, shall be quite overwhelmed with the calamities of their nation, shall sink under them, and yield to them, and shall look like women in labour, whose pains come upon them in great extremity and they know that they cannot escape them, Jer_30:6.
(Jer 30:6 KJV) Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?…. Look into the histories of former times, inquire of those most versed in them, whether ever there was such a thing in the world as that a man should travail with child; ask one and, another you see in distress, whether that is their case or not, which looks so much like it; and since there never was such an instance, nor is it possible that there should:
You never heard of a man travailing with child, and yet here you find not here and there a timorous man, (Jer 30:6 KJV) wherefore do I see every man with his hands his loins, in the utmost anguish and agony, (Jer 30:6 KJV) as a woman in travail; the usual posture of women in such a condition, trying hereby to abate their pain, and ease themselves. when they see their cities burnt and their countries laid waste.
This metaphor is made use of, both to express the sharpness and shortness of this distress; as the pains of a woman in travail are very sharp, yet short, and, when over, quickly forgotten; and so it wilt be at this time; it will be a sharp trial of the church and people of God. But this pain is compared to that of a woman in travail, not to that of a death-bed, because it will last but for a short time; it shall end in joy at last, and the pain, like that of a travailing woman, and the joy and happy times that will follow will soon cause it to be forgotten:
(Jer 30:6 KJV) and all faces are turned into paleness? at the departure of the blood, through fear and trembling. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it “the yellow jaundice”; their faces were of the colour of such persons that have that disease upon them; or, as others, the green sickness. Some render it, “the king’s evil”.
The word signifies not only such paleness as arises from a sudden fright, but that which is the effect of a bad habit of body, the jaundice, or the green sickness. The prophet laments the calamity upon the foresight of it (Jer 30:7 KJV) Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
(Jer 30:7 KJV) Alas! for that day is great,…. for sorrow and distress; a day of judgment, which is called the great day, the great and terrible day of the Lord (Joe 2:31 KJV) The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. (Jud 1:6 KJV) And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Great, (Jer 30:7 KJV) so that none is like it; such were the times of Jerusalem’s siege and destruction by the Romans; and which was an emblem of those times of trouble from antichrist in the latter day; the last destruction of Jerusalem is thus spoken of by our Saviour as unparalleled, (Mat 24:21 KJV) For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
(Jer 30:7 KJV) it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble: a sad time, when God’s professing people shall be in distress above other people; of the church and people of God, the true Israel of God; when Popery will be the prevailing religion in Christendom; when the outward court shall be given to the Gentiles; the witnesses shall be slain; antichrist will be “in status quo”; and the whore of Rome in all her glory; though it shall not last long:
The whole time of the captivity was a time of Jacob’s trouble; and such times ought to be greatly lamented by all that are concerned for the welfare of Jacob and the honour of the God of Jacob.
He must write the assurances which God had given that a happy end should at length be put to these calamities. Jacob’s troubles shall cease: (Jer 30:7 KJV) but he shall be saved out of it; shall come out of those great tribulations into a very happy and comfortable estate; the spirit of life shall enter into the witnesses, and they shall live and ascend to heaven; the vials of God’s wrath will be poured upon the antichristian states; the kings of the earth will hate the whore, and burn her with fire; the Gospel will be preached everywhere; the Jews will be converted, and the fulness of the Gentiles be brought in; and an end be put to all trouble; of which there will be no more, nor any occasion of it: or, “therefore he shall be saved out of it”; as the effect of the divine compassion to him in such great trouble.
Though the afflictions of the church may last long, they shall not last always. Salvation belongs to the Lord, and shall be wrought for his church.
Jacob’s troublers shall be disabled from doing him any further mischief, and shall be reckoned with for the mischief they have done him, (Jer 30:8 KJV) For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
The Lord of hosts, who has all power in his hand, undertakes to do it:
(Jer 30:8 KJV) For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,…. When the time is come for Jacob to be saved out of his trouble: (Jer 30:8 KJV)that I will break his yoke from off thy neck; which has long lain so heavy, and has so sorely galled thee; not the yoke of the king of Babylon, but of antichrist, and of all the antichristian states, by whom the people of God have been oppressed; so the Targum, “I will break the yoke of the peoples (the antichristian nations) from off your necks.” Jarchi interprets it of the yoke of the nations of the world from off Israel; and Kimchi of the yoke of Gog and Magog, or of every nation:
(Jer 30:8 KJV) and will burst thy bonds; by which they were kept in bondage, both with respect to civil and religious things; and restore thee to liberty and ease, and thou shalt no more be at the beck and command of strangers, shalt no more serve them, nor shall they any more serve themselves of thee; they shall no more enrich themselves either by thy possessions or by thy labours. But now he that led into captivity shall go into captivity himself, (Rev 13:10 KJV) He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
(Jer 30:8 KJV) and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him; this shows that this prophecy cannot be understood of deliverance from the Babylonish captivity; because, after this, strangers did serve themselves of the Jews, and they were servants unto them; as to the Persians, and Grecians, and especially the Romans, by whom they were entirely subdued and ruined; and to this day all nations almost serve themselves of them; but when they shall be called and converted, as they shall be free from the yoke of sin and Satan, and from the yoke of the ceremonial law, and the traditions of their elders, in a religious sense; so from the yoke of the nations of the world, in a civil sense.
And, that which crowns and completes the mercy is that they shall be restored to the free exercise of their religion again, (Jer 30:9 KJV) But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
They shall be delivered from serving their enemies, not that they may live at large and do what they please, (Jer 30:9 KJV) But they shall serve the Lord their God,…. And him only, in a spiritual manner, in righteousness and true holiness, with reverence and godly fear; having respect to all his precepts and ordinances, and every branch of religious worship; joining themselves to Gospel churches, and worshipping along with them, before them, and in the midst of them; see (Rev 3:9 KJV) Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
(Jer 30:9 KJV) and David their king; that they may come again into order, under the established government both in church and state; not literally, who shall be raised up from the dead, and reign over them, which Kimchi supposes possible, though he does not assert it; nor his successors called by his name, as the kings of Egypt were called Pharaohs and Ptolemies, and the Roman emperors Caesars, of which we have no instance; nor were there any kings of David’s line upon the throne of Israel after the Babylonish captivity, until the Messiah came, and who is the Person here meant; and so the Targum paraphrases it, “and they shall hearken to, or obey, Messiah the son of David their king;” and Kimchi owns that it may be interpreted of Messiah the son of David, whose name is called David, as it is in many prophecies, (Eze 34:23 KJV) And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. and this prophecy is understood of the Messiah by several Jewish writers; and in the Talmud it is said, “the holy blessed God will raise up unto thee another David; as it is said, “and they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them”; it is not said, “he hath raised up”, but “I will raise up”;”
And Christ is called David, not only because he is his son, but because he is his antitype. David was a type of Christ in his birth and parentage; the son of Jesse, born of mean parents, and at Bethlehem; in his outward form, ruddy and beautiful; in his inward character, a man of holiness, wisdom, and courage; in his offices of shepherd, prophet, and king; in his afflictions and sorrows, and in his wars and victories. The same Person is here meant as in the former clause, “the Lord their God”; since it is Jehovah that is here speaking; and he does not say “they shall serve me”, but “the Lord their God”; and since the same service is to be yielded to David as to the Lord their God; and who is, in his divine nature, the Lord God, and so the object of all religious worship and service; and, in his human nature, of the seed of David; and by office a King, appointed by his Father, and owned by his people, as King of saints; so the words may be rendered, “they shall serve the Lord their God, even David their King”; see (Tit 2:13 KJV) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Therefore they were brought into trouble and made to serve their enemies because they had not served the Lord their God as they ought to have done, with joyfulness and gladness of heart, (Deu 28:47 KJV) Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
But, when the time shall come that they should be saved out of their trouble, God will prepare and qualify them for it by giving them a heart to serve him, and will make it doubly comfortable by giving them opportunity to serve him. Therefore we are delivered out of the hands of our enemies, that we may serve God,(Luk 1:74 KJV) That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, (Luk 1:75 KJV) In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
And then deliverances out of temporal calamities are mercies indeed to us when by them we find ourselves engaged to and enlarged in the service of God. They shall serve their own God, and neither be inclined, as they had been of old in the day of their apostasy, nor compelled, as they had been of late in the day of their captivity, to serve other gods. They shall serve David their king, such governors as God should from time to time set over them, of the line of David (as Zerubbabel), or at least sitting on the thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David, as Nehemiah. But certainly this has a further meaning. The Chaldee paraphrase reads it, They shall obey (or hearken to) the Messiah (or Christ), the Son of David, their king. To him the Jewish interpreters apply it. That dispensation which commenced at their return out of captivity brought them to the Messiah. He is called David their King because he was the Son of David (Mat 22:42 KJV) Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. and he answered to the name, (Mat 20:31 KJV) And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. (Mat 20:32 KJV)And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?
David was an illustrious type of him both in his humiliation and in his exaltation. The covenant of royalty made with David had principal reference to him, and in him the promises of that covenant had their full accomplishment.
(Jer 30:9 KJV) whom I will raise up unto them; which is said of him in all his offices, (Jer 23:5 KJV) 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. and is expressive of his constitution as Mediator; and includes the Father’s pitching upon him, appointing him, calling him, fitting and qualifying him, and sending him in the fulness of time, under this character, as a Mediator, Redeemer, and Saviour; all which was for the good of his people; as a favour to them, for their profit and advantage: his incarnation is for them; his obedience, sufferings, and death; his righteousness, and the salvation he wrought out; he is raised up, and sent to them to bless them, with all spiritual blessings that are in him, (Act 3:26 KJV) Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
God gave him the throne of his father David; he raised him up unto them, set him upon the holy hill of Zion. God is often in the New Testament said to have raised up Jesus, raised him up as a King, (Act 13:23 KJV) Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: (Act 13:33 KJV) God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Observe, those that serve the Lord as their God must also serve David their King, must give up themselves to Jesus Christ, to be ruled by him. For all men must honour the Son as they honour the Father, and come into the service and worship of God by him as Mediator. Those that are delivered out of spiritual bondage must make it appear that they are so by giving up themselves to the service of Christ. Those to whom he gives rest must take his yoke upon them.
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