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Answer: The Scriptures teach that the Messiah will inherit
his lawful and legal right to kingship through the ancestry
of his biological father. Explicit in this evidence
is the fact that God's promised Messiah must be a male
heir of not only David:
For thus says the Lord: There shall not
be cut off to David a man to sit upon the throne of
the house of Israel . . . . If you can break My covenant
with the day and My covenant with the night, so that
there should not be day and night in their season; then
may also My covenant be broken with David My servant,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne.
. . . So will I multiply the seed of David My servant.
(Jeremiah 33:17-22)
but specifically of Solomon as well:
When your [David's] days are fulfilled,
and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up
your seed after you, that shall proceed out of your
body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build
a house for My name, and I will establish the throne
of his kingdom forever. I will be to him for a father,
and he shall be to Me for a son; if he commits iniquity,
I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the
stripes of the children of men, but My mercy shall not
depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put
away before you. And your house and your kingdom shall
be made sure forever before you: your throne shall be
established forever. (2 Samuel 7:12-16; see also 1 Chronicles
17:11-14, 2 Chronicles 7:17-18)
And of all my sons--for the Lord has given
me many sons--He has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon
the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. And
He said to me: "Solomon your son, he shall build My
house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be for
a son, and I will be to him for a father. And I will
establish his kingdom forever, if he be constant to
do My commandments and My ordinances, as at this day."
(1 Chronicles 28:5-7)
And David the king said to all the congregation:
"Solomon my son, who alone God has chosen. . . ." (1
Chronicles 29:1)
. . . as the Lord lives, who has established
me [Solomon], and set me on the throne of my father,
and who made me a house, as He promised. . . . (1 Kings
2:24)
In obedience to God's decision to establish Solomon
as king the Scriptures state:
And all the princes, and the mighty men,
and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves
to Solomon the king. (1 Chronicles 29:24)
God declares that under no circumstances would He
take the throne away from Solomon as He took it from
Saul.
If he [Solomon] commits iniquity I will
chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes
of the children of men, but My mercy shall not depart
from him, as I took it from Saul . . . (2 Samuel 7:14-15).
How did God take the kingdom from Saul? The right
to the kingship terminated with Saul's death. No son
of Saul ever sat on or had a right to the throne. But
Solomon's descendants, with the exception of one branch
of the family, would never lose their right to the throne.
The punishment for disobedience would be chastening
at the hands of men but not the termination of the monarchical
right. It is God's unconditional promise that the posterity
of David, specifically that of Solomon, will possess
the kingship forever. God assures that there will always
be a male of paternal Solomonic descent with the right
to reign upon David's throne. |