Our Coming King

December 1st

The King is Coming

All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

Psalm 145:9-13

Daily Devotional

December 1st

In the year 970 BC, as David was dying, he prophesied of the kingdom that God had promised him. He wrote that God had “made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure” (2 Samuel 23:5). This was the covenant of the eternal kingdom prophesied through the ministry of Nathan the prophet (2 Samuel 7:12-14).

In Psalm 145, at the center of the Psalm, King David prophesied. By inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he wrote of the saints of God in the future experiencing the realization of the Kingdom in that far off day from his own time. From that future blessed state, David spoke of them looking back across the past from the standpoint of the realization of the visible Kingdom of God:

Dr. K. Kilpatrick

The Kingdom of God in Focus (Copyright: EngraftedBranches Press, 2021)

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