Salvogesis

Today we will look at a passage about a house: 1 Chronicles 17: The LORD, David, and Nathan have an interesting and very important discussion about this house. J. Barton Payne says of this discussion in chapter 13 that the heart of 1 Chronicles is to be found in this chapter. [2]  Nupanga Weanzana calls it one of the most important in the presentation of the history of Israel in all of Chronicles. [3]  Bruce Birch writes of the sister passage to this one, 2 Samuel 7: "this chapter is the most important theological text … perhaps the entire Deuteronomistic History.' [4]  So this passage is significant. The chapter starts off with King David sitting in his house and he is talking to one of the prophets, Nathan. And, he says Verse 1&2:   “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”          Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with ...

God says to David, through Nathan:     “‘I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you: When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.’” Who is this passage speaking about? Jesus. It is even quoted in the Gospels, in the NT. Luke 1:32, this is the very passage to which the angle Gabriel refers when he tells Mary that she is going to have the baby Jesus! (As a side note - this is interesting I think anyway - when David says he wants to build a house/palace for God, the Bible uses the exact same word when God declines and says that He will...