Unstopable King Jesus
Betrayed: Judas
Failing Friend: Peter’s near beheading of soldier
Truth trampled upon
Kingship denied
History of His Kingship
indicates that the writer of this history practically hammers into his readers the thesis that God’s word directs history. The history of the Kings of Israel is a fulfillment of an explicit word of the Lord, “since he sets the whole complex in the shadow of the Nathan prophecy
Captivity, The. Period when many inhabitants of the southern kingdom of Judah were exiled in Babylonia after Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest of Jerusalem (6th century BC).
See EXILE.
How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, (Acts 15:14–16) in ruling, (Isa. 32:22) and defending us, (Isa. 32:1–2) and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies. (1 Cor. 15:25, Ps. 110)
For David himself says in the book of Psalms,
‘THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD,
“SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,
43 UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET.” ’
44 “Therefore David calls Him ‘Lord,’ and how is He his son?”