God’s Davidic Covenant Fulfilled after a War with Belial’s Sons!
February 22, 2006
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There are some interesting parallels in II Samuel 23:5-7 with the Middle East present and future situations.
I would simply identify them as ironic parallels. God made a covenant with Abraham through the promised Seed Isaac, from whose loins came Jacob (Israel) and David. Abraham’s offspring through the 12 sons of Ishmael and
the six sons of Keturah have produced the bulk of those who are of the Islamic faith today.
And they are the thorns in Israel’s side until the promised Seed from David returns at his Second Advent to occupy the old throne of David.
II SAMUEL 23:5 – Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
This kingdom of David will not grow to expand to the dimensions of the Covenant God made with Abraham in Genesis 15:18 until Christ’s Second Advent.
Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Luke 1:31-33 – And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
[32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: [33] And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
II SAMUEL 23:6 – But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
“Belial” cames from a Hebrew word formed from the combination of two other Hebrew words, pronounced Bel-ee (meaning “failure”), and Yaw-al was a term of scorn, meaning “to waste one’s worth.” The term is used in the Old Testament to describe people who were lawless and rebellious. In the New Testament it is used to refer
to Satan.
I cannot think of a better term to describe the Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, and Fatah. They are like prickly thorn balls, with which the only solution to evade injury is to avoid contact with them.
To make contact by touching them is to insure injury.
It is ironic that this is what Israel has realized it must do to avoid injury to their people, and is building a security fence to accomplish it.
II SAMUEL 23:7 – But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
A second irony occurs in this verse to accompany the one in verse six.
In order to not be affected by the touch of the thorns of the sons of Belial, the descendants of Jacob and David must be fenced (fitted) around their bodies with iron armor. The Palestinians must be fenced in by a security barrier with protective weapons at the 27 check points to keep
them from pricking Israel.
It is also somewhat ironic that the Palestinians, along with the other nations of the world, when they come against Israel in the Negev at the final battle of Armageddon,
are prophesied to “be utterly burned with fire in the same place.”
Revelation 16:16 – And he gat
hered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Among the “kings of the earth” in Revelation 19:19 will be the 10 Muslim king’s toes of Daniel’s statue in Daniel 2:44.
Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.