Weekend Meditation--A King Speaks About The Kingdom!!!

Exodus 19


We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--A King Speaks About The Kingdom!!!

 Witness command throughout the Bible:   H1696 dabar--to speak, declare, converse, command

Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded H1696 them, but saved the men children alive.


The Torah  ...............
Genesis 18:19  For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken H1696 of him.

The prophets  ..................
Jeremiah 1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak H1696 unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

The writings ...........................
Joshua 4:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak H1696 unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.

Jeremiah 1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. H1696


Exodus 19:6  and you will be a kingdom of cohanim (Priest) for me, a nation set apart.’ These are the words you are to speak to the people of Isra’el.”

KINGS, PROPHETS, AND THE KINGDOM

Normally, when we talk about the Kingdom of God, we think only of what Yeshua said about the subject as recorded in the four Gospels: Everything God says and does relates to His Kingdom. The entire Bible deals with the Kingdom of God. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture reveals God as the great and almighty King of heaven and earth resolutely at work on His plan of the ages.

“And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel (Exod. 19:6, NAS).

For the kingdom is the Lord’s, and He rules over the nations (Ps. 22:28, NAS).

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom (Psalm 45:6).

They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power (Ps. 145:11, NAS).

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and
that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever (Dan. 2:44, NAS).

That plan is to reverse and destroy the works of the devil and fully restore His rule over the earthly realm through His human representatives. Everything centers on the Kingdom of God. All the saints of the Old Testament recognized this fact. Abraham knew it. Moses knew it. Samuel knew it. David, the king of Israel, knew it. The prophets knew it. Yeshua knew it. All the apostles and other believers in the New Testament knew it.

Everyone, it seems, understood the priority of the Kingdom; everyone except us, that is.

Often, even in spite of all our sophistication, education, and technology, we of modern and “enlightened” democratic societies are worse off than the people of Old Testament times when it comes to matters of understanding the Kingdom of God and how our world relates to it.

A KING SPEAKS ABOUT THE KINGDOM

The Book of Psalms is full of references that make it clear that David and other psalm writers in Israel knew and revered God as King of kings, Not only do these verses speak of God as King, but they also look ahead prophetically to the coming of Yeshua, who would inherit the Kingdom from His Father.

“I have installed My King on Zion, My holy hill.” I will proclaim the decree of the Lord: He said to me, “You are My Son; today I have become your Father. Ask of Me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will rule them with an iron scepter; you will dash them to pieces like pottery” (Ps. 2:6-9).

The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from His land (Psalm 10:16).

Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors that the King of glory may come in. Who is He, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty—He is the King of glory (Ps. 24:7-10).

The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all (Ps. 103:19).

The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord is enthroned as King forever (Ps. 29:10).

Your dominion endures through all generations (Ps. 145:10-13).

ANCIENT PROPHETS AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Many of the prophets also received powerful visions and insight into the glory and splendor of God and His Kingdom. One of the most familiar of these visions is found in Isaiah:

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!
For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty” (Isa. 6:1—5).

His own human sinfulness stood out suddenly in such starkness against the awesome purity and holiness of God that Isaiah expected to be struck down any moment. Instead, he experienced the merciful justice of God.

Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isa. 6:6-8)

In another place, Isaiah recorded the insight he had received regarding the King’s heir and the nature and character of His Kingdom:

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this (Isa. 9:6-7).

A KINGDOM MADE NOT BY HUMAN HANDS

Perhaps no one in the Old Testament received more revelation and insight about God’s Kingdom than did the prophet Daniel. As a matter of fact, the entire focus of the Book of Daniel involves the sovereignty of the Kingdom of God over the kingdoms of men.

Several times throughout the book, the strength and will of earthly kings are pitted against the strength and will of God, and God comes out on top every time.

Daniel was a man of impeccable integrity who loved God. Because of his extraordinary gifts and competence, Daniel directly served a succession of several Babylonian kings. These rulers wanted trustworthy men around them and could have found no one better than Daniel.

DANIEL AND A KING’S DREAM

When summoned before the king, Daniel correctly explained the dream in every detail. Nebuchadnezzar had seen a great statue with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, abdomen and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet made partly of iron and partly of clay. Then a stone cut out with no human hand smashed the feet of iron and clay and proceeded to break the rest of the statue into tiny pieces, which the wind blew away. After this, the stone grew into a great mountain that filled the whole earth (see Dan. 2:31-35).

After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands— a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and the interpretation is trustworthy (Dan. 2:39-45).

Among Daniel’s gifts was the God-given ability to interpret dreams, which he did on several occasions.

Shema Selah rise us kings and rule with the scepter you have been given!!  No more retreat take new ground!!