In an age of UNIVERSAL DECEPTION, telling the TRUTH becomes a REVOLUTIONARY ACT! But be ASSURED that the Sword of Truth and Justice which proceeds from the Mouth of God is MIGHTIER than the Sword of criminal VIOLENCE in the hands of his enemies!
If you believed Moses you would believe me because he wrote all about me, but if you don't believe Moses how will you ever believe what I say? Jn. 5:46-47
Behold the King!
The "Firstborn Seed" of God, the "Son of God" seated at the Right Hand of God as the IMAGE of the "PERFECT FATHER" whom David recognized Moses wrote all about (as Jesus said in Jn. 4:46-47), and who Paul DEFINED as the "Image of God's Righteousness" as the "GOAL of the Law" (Rom. 10:1-4) so we may ALSO believe Moses, be BORN FROM ABOVE, and serve him as King of God's Kingdom even as King David did who BELIEVED MOSES! (Ps. 110, Mt. 22:42-45, Jn. 5:46-47, & Rom. 10:1-4)!
Preface
There are many studies on this website which are really rather pre-requisites for this one which I will link throughout the page for students who need that remedial background. Nevertheless this page can be properly appreciated by those who have immersed themselves in the full BODY of the Biblical Corpus, and have an Historic view of the Fathers of our faith from the Word regarding their concept of the "Messiah" [Moshiah = "Saviour" (as found in Judges 6:36, 1 Sam. 10:19, 2 Kings 13:5, Ps. 7:10, Ps. 17:7, Is. 43:11, Is. 45:15, Zech. 8:7, and Obad. 1:21, for a few pertinent examples) which is DISTINCT from, and should not be confused with, "Moshaich" which means "annointed one" in English, "christ" in Greek!] as the "Image" of the "Perfect Father" of our faith, God Himself who is our "SAVIOUR" who "ANNOINTS" MEN as His "Right Hand" and IMAGE BEARER! For a more in depth study on the "Faith of our Fathers" and the progressive revelation of God's New Covenant Kingdom over which Jesus is the High Priest-King as David envisioned, I highly recommend the page where I go through the Reflections of our Fathers of the Faith and in particular the "Meditations" on them by which David came to the Knowledge of Him (as both Jesus and Paul expressly teach), in this link which. I wrote subsequent to this page as a "step by step" process up the "Ladder" or "Staircase" to explain this page, after I received feedback from people suggesting this page was difficult to understand. So hopefully that page will be better for anyone who doesn't readily understand this one.
To keep this particular study about "Moses' Gospel" where he talks all about Jesus (which details I go into in other places, particularly in this link) as simple as possible, we will essentially focusing only on what David himself clearly gleaned from being a man after God's own heart and meditating on the Torah (Law) of Moses day and night (Josh. 1:8, Ps. 1:2, Ps. 19 & 119); this link will give you far more details and insight. Here I will be outlining how Jesus taught that King David recognized that Moses taught all about him as the "Firstborn Son of God", the "Image of God's Righteousness" and "High Priest-King" of a "BETTER COVENANT" who shall rule over even his enemies and when David saw this in the Spirit he was BORN FROM ABOVE to recognize his "Lord" as Jesus REPRIMANDED the Pharisees for NOT KNOWING while commending themselves as teachers of Israel (Jn. 3:9-10, 5:46-47, Mat. 22:42-45, Rom. 10:1-4, Ps. 110). Any Bible teacher who doesn't teach this today, whether Jew of Christian, is NO BETTER THAN OFF than those BLIND GUIDES!!
So I want to help you SEE that IMAGE OF GOD'S RIGHTOUSNESS so you can serve Him as God's High Priest-King according to the Kingdom Gospel Plan which David saw, and TEACH OTHERS! To do that we shall try to take ourselves back in time to the Reign of King David to try to understand some of his reflections as the writer of most of the Psalms. Let's keep in mind that most of the Biblical Text we have today, David did not have. Outside of the Torah (Law) of Moses, David had access to only a handful of books we have today. Those books being: Job, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. That's it! But he tells us in many places that he meditated on the Torah (Law) which Moses wrote. So he was relying PRIMARILY on the Torah (Law) of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy) and was "Born from above" to call Jesus his "Lord" as God's High Priest-King over a BETTER COVENANANT because, as Jesus tells us, Moses wrote all about him and that New Covenant as the Goal of the 1st Covenant (as I demonstrate throughout this website)!
If you believed Moses you would believe me because he wrote about me, but if you don't believe Moses how will you ever believe what I say? Jn. 5:46-47
Paul likewise tells us in Rom. 10:1-4 that the Law (which Moses wrote) defines the "Image of God's Righteousness" which the Pharisees had missed through bad interpretation, and so they made up their own image of righteousness and really have NO IDEA what David is talking about in Psalm 110. So we shall demonstrate that Paul is not only referencing King David who recognized that the "Image of Righteousness" which Moses DEFINED would be the "INHERITOR" of God's "SEED PROMISE" as God's "Firstborn Son", AND he recognized that he would DIE TO ATONE FOR SIN not covered in the Mosaic Covenant (before being Glorified through resurrection at God's Right Hand) and that's WHY Moses writes of our BREAKING the Covenant and its RENEWAL (Deut. 30:1-7) in a BETTER COVENANT (as the later prophets and the writer of Hebrews also tell us).
So David meditated day and night on the books of Moses (the Torah/Law) which helped to mold him as King from his youth because he BELIEVED GOD and MOSES. I shall demonstrate that it is from his FAITH in God based on the teachings found only in THOSE FEW BOOKS, that King David was "born from above" to demonstrate his FAITH in God and OBEDIENCE to Jesus as God's "seed of promise", and gave us his VISION of HIM as the "FIRSTBORN SON of God" who sits at his RIGHT HAND as High Priest-King over a new and BETTER COVENANT KINGDOM than his own! As we shall see, Jesus himself chastized the Pharisees for posing as teachers of Israel and NOT KNOWING THIS! I likewise chastize both Jew AND CHRISTIANS for not knowing and teaching this in OBEDIENCE to the King!
Anyhow to avoid any debate with those who might argue that the books of 1 & 2 Samuel, Proverbs, and Song of Solomon (and some may even try to argue 1 & 2 Kings, and 1& 2 Chronicles) may have been written while David was still alive on earth, let's acknowledge that even if true, they would have been seen by him as more of a biography of his life written AFTER he had become King to give us some history, more than anything else. They were NOT books he would have meditated on day and night as reflected though his Psalms, even if they existed and he could have done so.
Therefore try to put yourself in the framework of BELIEVING that Moses wrote all about Jesus as Jesus said (Jn. 5:46-47) and through his UNDERSTANDING MOSES King David was able to "DEFINE the IMAGE OF GODS RIGHTEOUSNESS" as the Goal of the Torah (Law) in Psalm 110, as Paul alluded to (Rom. 10:1-4). He understood that through Moses God was telling us that HIS PROMISED SEED would be KILLED and GLORIFIED as the "Firstborn Son of God" according to a PLAN for a RENEWED and BETTER COVENANT, which King David clearly believed Moses wrote about, as we try to understand HOW HE himself was able to write about the "Image of God's Righteousness" which he depicted for us graphically in Psalm 110 as his own Lord, the Perfect Father of our faith, as I try to guide you through that process of his meditations as God used him. As I already alluded to and demonstrate in this page linked to this paragraph, David was not alone in seeing this vision. He came to see that Moses himself had written all about the Image of Gods Righteousness as the Rightful Heir who would be rejected (as Jesus Himself alludes to in Jn. 5:46-47). David merely synthesized the vision Moses wrote about prophetically for us in Psalm 110, which Paul alludes to in Rom. 10:1-4 as the GOAL of the Law.
And not only did Moses and David "see" this "vision" through the eye of understanding, other prophets did also, to include Socrates the Greek Philosopher! Now I don't want you to get distracted and go to see that DEEP STUDY until AFTER you finish this page and SEE what David gleaned from Moses, first. But I do demonstrate how Socrates alludes to this "vision" which David gleaned from Moses writings (Moses writings which Socrates had access to, as well as to David's, and himself believed both!) when he referenced the "Son" who is the PERFECT IMAGE of the "Father" who he called the TRUE "Light of the World" in his famous "Cave Parable" excerpted here in this link for your convenience. Socrates concluded that EVERYONE has a DUTY if they wish to walk circumspectly in this life, particularly those who hold public office, but also in private affairs, to keep the "eye (of the mind) FIXED on that LIGHT from Heaven", the Son of God. That's basically what Paul was also saying in Rom. 10:1-4 and I wholeheartedly concur, and for that reason I wrote this page linked here to propose a "Bill of Responsibility" to be amended to the U.S. Constitution! It appears that David, Socrates, Jesus, and Paul all BELEVIED MOSES more than the Rabbinic Jews who misinterpreted the texts or even Christians who have MANY FALSE GOSPELS and a different Jesus for all of them (as I demonstrate here in this link)!
So Moses, David, Socrates, Jesus, and Paul ALL RECOGNIZED and TAUGHT that Moses wrote all about this "Firstborn Son of God's SEED Promise" (Gen. 3:15) to whom the world will bow as the Messianic King, and it's this vision as the GOAL of Moses Law which should Rule the Hearts and Minds of ALL of those who recognize Jesus according to the ONLY 1 TRUE KINGDOM GOSPEL PLAN for which Jesus came to fulfill the SEED PROMISE of Genesis 3:15; an INHERITANCE RIGHT which He gives to His "Sons" as His Inheritors (Rev. 2:26-28 and 21:7)!
Note on Romans 10:1-8
***Begin Note*** In Romans 10:1-8 Paul is clearly referencing the Promise of God through Moses that we WOULD break the Covenant and be taken into a World Bondage greater than that of Egypt when he references the "Image of God's Righteousness" which is found IN THE LAW which is by FAITH...that of course being the IMAGE which David saw and described for us in Ps. 110. Particularly in Rom. 10:5-8 he is PARALLELING the words of Moses in Deut. 30:11-14, the context of which is the Promise of God that we WOULD be taken into a World Bondage and He WOULD bring us back through our FAITH IN HIS IMAGE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS which He Promised to provide. That IMAGE is what David BELIEVED MOSES to be saying would be the "Promised Seed" of God, His FIRSTBORN SON who would be the FIRSTBORN Son of God resurrected from DEATH as the Fathers of our faith all believed and POINTED TO through their DEEDS based in that FAITH; as I shall demonstrate. ***End Note***
The primary texts to read and meditate over to see this vision (besides those of the "Seed Promise" of God from the foundation of the world which I cover in this link, which we will be referencing below), are:
1. Duet. 28:69-30:14 Where God cuts ANOTHER Covenant with Israel at Moab, BESIDES the one He cut with us at Sinai/Horeb which begins in Deut. 29:1 (28:69 in Hebrew) through Deut. 30:14, and focusing mostly on Deut. 30:1-7.
2. Psalm 110 (and Psalm 2) where David recognized the "Sacrifice" of the Promised Seed of God which would OFFICIALLY BREAK the Sinai/Horeb Covenant to BEGIN our BONDAGE according to the Moab Covenant, from which God will bring us BACK from our bondage when we SEEK HIS FACE to recognize the "IMAGE of His Righteousness" as His Firstborn Son of the SEED PROMISE who is now seated as God's Right Hand as His High Priest-King, as David recognized through FAITH that Moses was describing (as I demonstrate in detail in this link).
3. Romans 10:1-8 where Paul is referencing the above texts putting them together.
So with this preface we shall begin to "connect the dots" for this prophetic vision Moses writes about and David, Socrates, and Paul also SAW in HIS WRITINGS and also wrote about, without attempting to go into the DEPTH of MEDITATION which may be required for most people to be able to "see" the "vision of KNOWLEDGE" well enough through the "eye of understanding" to be able to be BORN FROM ABOVE to Obey him as King by FAITH, as Moses, David, Socrates, and Paul did. One can do that on their own in relationship with the Spirit of Truth. This will be a VERY BARE BONES skeletal outline beginning with the "Seed Promise" which God gave to Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:15) of a son who would "crush the head of the Serpent" (a.k.a. Belial, the Devil, Dragon, Satan and Lucifer) who had taken mankind into Bondage to serve himself as god in REBELLION to the true God, through DECEPTION.
Let's Begin
Adam and Eve had twin sons who give us a picture of the IMAGE of the Spiritual "Seed of God's Promise" (Gen. 3:15), and also of the image of the "Seed of the Serpent", through their DEEDS. One of the questions the Patriarchs wrestled with was: 'why did God show His favor to Abel knowing in advance that Cain WOULD become jealous of this BIRTHRIGHT from God, and WOULD murder him because of it?'. Why did God choose to do that? The answer speaks to the psychological nature of man and from where he chooses to seek his affirmation (self esteem) in this temporal reality. As I teach in this link, it shines light on the very origin and purpose of vicarious sacrifice. As we shall see Abraham believed God resurrected (or shall resurrect) Abel because of his FAITH, which pleased God who has power over life and death. Abraham believed God would RAISE his PROMISED SON ISAAC from the dead to KEEP HIM PROMISE that THROUGH HIM he would have so many "seed" he would not be able to count them all and they would be a blessing to ALL NATIONS. Abraham came to demonstrate through his FAITH, that obedience to God was the wisest life investment anyone could make, and he passed this faith on to his Miracle Child, Isaac..
So God set His favor and COUNTENANCE upon Abel (as an "Image Bearer" of His Righteous "Seed" which He promised He would provide as our King, who would FREE US from the Serpent and those NARCISSISTS and their MIND SLAVES, the seed of the Serpent like Cain who WOULD SERVE the serpent as God, as we see depicted in the wicked kingdoms of man which have ruled throughout history since that time) knowing IN ADVANCE that Cain would manifest the image of the Narcissistic Seed of the Serpent in juxtapposed contradistinction. Seth was raised up in place of Abel so that the SEED PROMISE of God would not be lost or forgotten but inherited at the proper time. His son was named Enosh and at that time men began calling on the name of YHWH (Gen. 4:26). At some point the RIGHT of the Firstborn Son of God to rule the world as God's "Image Bearer" from whom the "Messiah" would come, had been overshadowed by violent men who had been taken captive to the Serpent's deceptions and were usurping the authority of God's annointed Image Bearer through DECEPTION, in rebellion to the promised seed.
From the time of Adam until the flood there was no law except those which men contrived for themselves. Like today, the entire world was in a period of "Grace" awaiting the judgement of God's promised "seed" against which the whole world in service to the Serpent was in rebellion. The Promised "Seed" of God (which is the same as the blessing of the "Right of Firstborn" and the promise of the "Messiah") belonged to Enosh, the son of Seth who was raised up as seed in place of Abel.
In Gen. 5 we trace this Inheritance Right of God's Promised "Seed" through the patriarchs to Noah whom God declares to be "Righteous and Perfect" in his generation (Gen. 6:9). He becomes the progenitor of the ultimate "seed" of God's promise as an "inheritor" of the promise who shows us something of the IMAGE of God's Righteousness to be RECOGNIZED. At this point one might say that all of those in rebellion to God (though they usurped His Name and authority as they ruled violently in rebellion to Him and His "IMAGE BEARER") came under judgment as God's Grace ended those generations of men. So Noah is descended from Abel/Seth and like them had the FAVOR and COUNTENANCE of God on him showing he has the "Right of Firstborn" as the INHERITOR of God's "Seed Promise", and he becomes the effective "Image of Gods Righteousness" as the "Father" over a "New World" where all rebellion and offense to God had been purged out (as we are likewise promised in Mat. 13:41).
This "Right of this Promised SEED" of God's Firstborn then goes from Noah to Shem/Melchizedek to Abraham, whom God called out from RELIGIOUS BONDAGE in Ur. Abraham is understood to be the Father of our faith in the SEED of Promise which God had promised to RESURRECT from death to DELIVER US from the BONDAGE of the Spiritual Deceptions of the "god of this world" (olam hasheker) from which God called him out. Having himself meditated on this Righteous Seed Promise of God, he yearns to raise up seed to fulfull this promise which will become the blessing of the Nations, and God fulfills his desire with a MIRACLE CHILD at the "Time of Life" when the Ewes are birthing their lambs and the firstfruit of the Barley ripens for harvest, later codified by Moses as Passover. Many years after the birth of this MIRACLE Child, God tells him to take the PROMISED FIRSTBORN SON of God's Seed Promise to Mt. Moriah (Jerusalem) and slay him there as a SACRIFICE to God at the very time of his birth, later codified by Moses as Passover. No doubt Abraham had meditated on the account of Abel and did not understand why God did that but he knew God does miracles; He had given him the MIRACLE Child in the first place. Abraham is the father of our Faith in RESURRECTION from the dead!
David no doubt meditated on this COUNTER INTUITIVE event with Abraham and Isaac (and Abel) and it's connection to the Passover event many times. Eventually he recognized that Josef, who was rejected at this VERY SAME TIME of the year and sold into bondage of Death in Egypt after it became CLEAR that he would INHERIT the BIRTHRIGHT from father Israel, was also a part of this picture of the "Promised Seed" God was promising to send. Then he started associating the ORIGIN of God's Grace with the lessons God wanted us to recognize in the sacrifice of Abel in the beginning, as an IMAGE of the RIGHTEOUS and PERFECT "Father of our Faith" God was promising to provide from the foundation of the world who would be exalted to the Right hand of Power before whom the whole world would bow as they did Josef. He recognized, as did Moses who codified it to speak all about him, that the Passover Sacrifice and its "Sabbath" which God revealed as the "SIGN" by which we would know that it is He, the invisible God of TRUTH, whou would "SANCTIFY US" through the SACRIFICE of this HOLY SEED, as He told us after He brought us out from bondage in Egypt. That "Passover Lamb" was a SHADOW of the PROMISED SEED which God was promising from the foundation of the world (as I demonstrate in more detail here). David recognized this SEED PROMISE which Isaac EMBODIED in this SACRIFICIAL PICTURE of God's Promised Seed to be SACRIFICED as an INNOCENT LAMB, would be RESURRECTED from the dead (as Abraham clearly believed) and exalted to God's own Right Hand as the PROMISED SEED as Josef gives us a picture. The "Right of Firstborn" did not go to Judah but to Joseph who was sold into the BONDAGE of SPIRITUAL DEATH in Egypt from which His brothers, ruled by Judah who usurped Josef's authority in his absense as ruler, believed they would never see him again. Yet God exalted him to the RIGHT HAND of power over the WORLD and its RELIGIONS ruled by Egypt, as Saviour of the world before whom Judah together with the brothers who bowed to Judah, themselves all bowed to Josef as Lord! A partial fulfilment of the "Morningstar" vision David saw by Faith in the ONE Moses wrote all about!
Father Israel recognized how his own sons had been self deceived to deceive him, and really became aware of the spiritual warfare regarding this "seed" promise and right of the firstborn. Prompted by God, he decided to divide the blessings associated with this ONE seed among the brothers such that Judah would ASSUME that he has the birthright, which Jacob had already given to Josef and his son Ephraim in secret. So father Jacob gave each of them prophetic destinies bound up in a spiritual "Blessing", as Father Israel was directed by God to do. The APPEARANCE of Judah having the right of firstborn would dominate until the one from Josef/Ephraim comes to inherit his birthright. Joshua from the Tribe of Josef/Ephraim, is the "Root of Jesse" (for whom Boaz raised Obed as "seed" so that his name and inheritance would not be lost or forgotten) who comes to INHERIT his BIRTHRIGHT according to the PLAN, because it is to him that the KINGSHIP rightly belongs!
I have gone over the details of David's lineage as the Ephrathite from Josef/Ephraim as the "Root of Jesse" who has the RIGHT of God's "Seed Promise" as His Firstborn Son, which was raised up by Boaz to his half brother Elimelech the son of Joshua (Jesus) the King of Israel (a.k.a. "Jeshurun", who replaced Moses, Deut. 33:5), in this page, and also here in this page, so I will not cover that again here. Here we shall just recognize that David himself knew this "secret" regarding his lineage from Joshua the conquerer of Canaan, and also something of it's prophetic import, as we can deduce from his writings which we will discuss.
David recognized that God intended that when his PROMISED SEED who has the RIGHT OF FIRSTBORN would be SLAIN as a SACRIFICE to atone for the world's SIN of REBELLION against God and His Kingdom, that he would be GLORIFIED in POWER through RESURRECTION from death (as Abraham TRUSTED God would do with his Miracle Child) to INHERIT the RIGHT as God's Firstborn Son, the PERFECT FATHER of our Faith to whom the faith of ALL the Father's of our faith pointed through their OBEDIENCE to the INVISIBLE ONE which was patterned in Josef's rejection! David recognized that this "SEED PROMISE" was under SPIRITUAL ATTACK from the wicked seed of the SERPENT from the foundation of the world, at the hands of which Israel had suffered since BIRTH as David indicates in Psalm 129, embodied by the RIGHTFUL RULER of Israel as the PROMISED SEED of the Nation (the "suffering servant" and King of Israel from Joseph/Ephraim which Isaiah 53 later picks up on).
David recognized himself as the seed of Joshua the Ephrathite ("Yahshua" which means: YHWH saves) the son of "Nun" (which means to "waste away" like the "waning" of the moon) upon whose head the crown of the "Fruitful Vine" separated (nazir) from his brothers, would come in the end of days, and this RIGHT of the "FIRSTBORN SON" (Ps. 2) would APPEAR to be LOST until the "day of his power" when he UNITES HIS PEOPLE as "saviour", even as God used Gideon as His "Right Hand" and "Saviour" (Messiah) after Joshua's death (Judges 6:36 & 7:7, Ps. 110:3 & 110:7).
David, Samuel, Saul, and Jonathan ALL KNEW David's "secret" lineage from Joshua/Ephraim to whom Boaz raised seed (as recorded by Samuel in the Book of Ruth) so that His Inheritance RIGHTS as the FIRSTBORN son of God would not be LOST or FORGOTTEN according to God's Plan whereby he promised to TIE Judah's donkey of Prophecy as Ruler, to the Fruitful Bough (Ephraim) as the RIGHTFUL HEIR of the VINE PROMISE of Josef! And these things would be "sealed up" from the time of David until the Rejection/Sacrifice of the PROMISED SON who would then be resurrected in Power at God's Right Hand as David shows us...then these things would be SEALED UP again until the end of the age of the Gentiles where all are under Grace as the Antediluvian's were, until he sends his OWN Messenger to UNSEAL these TRUTHS ot begin the "time of his power". The Messenger he sends to INHERIT under HIS AUTHORITY is none other than the "Root of Jesse" (Is. 11:10-12, Rev. 18:1-4) who stands in the end days to UNITE the House of Judah and the House of Israel back together as the "Prince of Israel" (Dan. 12:1-2, Rev. 20:1-4), to RULE EARTH under God as King according to His Plan for His "Seed" (Rev. 2:26-28, 21:7, Ez. 37:19)!
Summary
Now I want to discuss EXACTLY WHEN I believe the CONCEPT of this promised BIRTHRIGHT of the "Image of God's Righteousness" being resurrected from the dead to be seated at God's Right Hand, which David tells us about in Psalm 110, came to be formalized or confirmed in his mind. It was after God took his firstborn son to atone for his own sin for which there was NO SACRIFICE under the Mosaic Covenant over which he was King. He recognized a "son of promise" more righteous than Josef was being referred to in the Mosaic Covenant which God gave us when He brought us out from the FIRST BONDAGE...and the GREATER WORLD BONDAGE pointing to the REJECTION of this son, would end with out GREAT EXODUS into a Renewed and BETTER, more MERCIFUL Covenant than the one HE BROKE! He wrote Psalm 110 after he wrote Psalm 51.
He recognized the PROMISED SEED who would CRUSH the head of the Seed of the Serpent to END their VIOLENT REBELLION (where men SACRIFICE the INNOCENT to HIDE their CRIMES AGAINST GOD, as David himself realized he had become POWER DRUNK to believe he could get away with) and Save the World as the PERFECT IMAGE of the FATHER according to the Plan, after he sinned with Bathsheba and God took his INNOCENT SON as an atonement for his sin which had NO COVERING under the Mosaic Law. Again I cover this in much greater detail elsewhere, so I will just hit the high points to outline the bare bones details here.
In 2 Sam. 11 we see that David was ruling as King when he sends Joab the commander of his armies to siege Rabbah (Aman, the capitol of modern day Jordan) while he stayed behind and commits adultery with Bathsheba in Jerusalem and she becomes pregnant. David tries to hide what he had done by sending a message to Joab to have him send news of the battle back to him in Jerusalem by the hand of Uri Yah (Light of God). This pretense of wanting to get an account of the war from Uri Yah was a rouse by which David had planned that Uri Yah would go home and sleep with his wife Bathsheba so that she could claim the child as Uri Yah's (the Light of God) and David could be off the hook for committing adultery. But David's plan was frustrated because Uri Yah was more concerned with honoring God, the King, and with the welfare of the soldiers more than David was, and he refused to go home and see his wife but rather insisted on returning to the battle A.S.A.P. So David sends him back with a message to Joab telling him to send Uri Yah on a suicide mission to get rid of this RIGHTEOUS MAN. In this way David could marry his widow Bathsheba and hide his sin which would otherwise be EXPOSED by the Son in her womb (for which the Mosaic Law prescribes the Death penalty for both of them). So David has Uri Yah killed and marries his widow Bathsheba thinking that he had succeeded in hiding his sin until God sent Nathan to confront him on it.
Making a long story short (which I cover in greater detail elsewhere), David is told he would be forgiven (for adultery and murder of the "Light of God", a man more righteous than himself) but the cost would be his Firstborn Son of GODS "SEED PROMISE" (which belongs to the Tribe of Josef/Ephraim which is David's "Root") he had clearly given to David (2 Sam. 7:12-13). During this time his son, the Prince of Israel is suffering, David himself is mourning over his sin and praying for the INNOCENT CHILD'S LIFE not to be taken for HIS SIN. This is when it all began to click for David. He recognized his own lineage of the RIGHTFUL HEIR (of the "Morningstar" who would come out of Josef as the Vine, from which the True Vine and Messianic "Branch" would spring forth) and the Spirit of God which was in David, even as was in his Righteous Patriarch Josef (Gen. 41:38, Ps. 51:11) who was under GRACE. Josef had no covenantal law and was under God's Grace AS ALL MEN WERE, and yet he COMMITTED NO SIN under a Covenant which was codified later...even ADULTERY on pain of Death at the hands of a WICKED WOMAN (defined later as the "Daughter of Babylon" and Religious "Harlot of Mystery Babylon") serving the Serpent of Egypt. David realized the "Son" God had promised him would be his own "Lord" whose righteousness FAR EXCEEDED his own, and would be KILLED to COVER OVER the sin of himself and others and be taken to God's Right Hand as the Image of God's Righteousness, even as God had used Josef as a sort of teaching model. David then recognized and served the mercifal LORD under GRACE of a Renewed and Better Covenant (promised first through Moses in Deut. 30:1-7), the High Priest-King to God who would be REJECTED and SLAIN as a Passover Lamb, the Promised Seed of God like Josef which would BEGIN our WORLD BONDAGE under a period of Grace until his IDENTITY would be REVEALED (as Josef revealed his face to his brothers) and be ACKNOWLEDGED as the RIGHTFUL HEIR seated on God's Throne according to the PLAN by which ALL MEN could be SET FREE from BONDAGE to a CORRUPT WORLD KINGDOM depicted by the Statue of Nebuchadnezzar in Dan. 2:31-45 (like Noah from those of his generation) to enter a RE-ESTABLISHED and BETTER KINGDOM COVENANT in a New World Order serving THE PERFECT IMAGE of our FATHER according the Plan of our INVISIBLE GOD to ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM so we may KNOW and SERVE HIM in TRUTH as King over Heaven and Earth and bring the seed of the Serpents Rebellion into JUDGEMENT for the salvation of the world according to a BETTER PLAN than Noah's Ark! In this way we ESTABLISH God's Kingdom so that His Will is done on earth as in heaven.
So when Paul says in Romans 10:1-4 that the Pharisees had misinterpeted the text and made up their OWN IMAGE of righteousness and MISSED recognizing the Messiah who EMBODIED the Image of Gods Righteousness as the GOAL of the Law, he is merely re-iterating what Moses, David, and Jesus himself told us was going to happen. Now having been REJECTED as prophesied (and Glorified as David depicts in Ps. 110), which BEGAN our diaspora in world bondage to the "times of the gentiles" under a period of Grace and defined as "Mystery Babylon" (Rev. 18:1-4) and depicted in the Statue of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:31-45) which Moses promised we would be taken into (Deut. 30:1-7), Grace is now about to END (as it did for the Antediluvians of Noah's Day) and it's time to COME OUT from our bondage (Rev. 18:4) in the promised Great Exodus for which that from Egypt was a PATTERN to learn from.
The son of Josef who has the RIGHT of the FIRSTBORN "SEED" of God's Promise, now sits on the Heavenly Throne as God's Image Bearer, the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God as promised from the foundation of the world, and it is NOW the "day of his power" when HIS PEOPLE will RECOGNIZE HIS FACE according to the "SEED PROMISE" given to the "Root of Jesse" as the Prince of Israel, and be WILLING to OBEY God's Messianic King (Saviour) as David himself did, and prophesied we would also do in the time of his power (Ps. 110:3)! David had been BORN AGAIN into the Kingdom ABOVE by His FAITH in God's SEED Promise, even as Jesus chastized Nicodemus and the Pharisees for NOT KNOWING or teaching while exalting themselves as TEACHERS of Israel (Jn. 3:3 & 10)!
Jesus said: "You're a Teacher of Israel and don't know these things?" Jn. 3:10
This is how BY FAITH, David was BORN FROM ABOVE and served Jesus as His "LORD", the PROMISED "FIRSTBORN SEED" of God who is High Priest-King, as Jesus himself taught was the very reason he came...to FULFILL David's Vision (Mat. 22:42-45)!
Whose son is the Messiah?...If the Messiah is the son of David, why does David in Spirit call him "Lord"? Mat. 22:42-45
David recognized (as did the Prophet Isaiah who later gave us the "Root of Jesse" prophecy as an "end days" CLUE to understand as well) that IDENTITY of the "SEED" of God's Promise which belongs to Josef/Ephraim that would come through his own loins to be REJECTED as his progenitor Josef was, from whom he himself carries this SECRET, would not be DISCLOSED until AFTER he is REJECTED as Josef was, BEGIN the World Bondage which Moses promised, and RESURRECTED to LIFE as the FIRSTFRUIT of our FAITH in God, and would be GLORIFIED to sit at God's Right Hand during our world bondage deferring judgement in a period of Grace until the Day of His Power when he would UNITE HIS SAINTS in the GREAT EXODUS to DO HIS WILL as the "Morningstar" of God's Promise...for which our Exodus from Egypt into the TEMPORAL COVENANT PROMISE was a mere OBJECT LESSON for what would be coming on the NEO-antediluvians who are currently DESTROYING THE WORLD IN VIOLENCE AND INSANITY. Then His Saints INHERIT the World Kingdom as His Administrators for which Noah was a shadow.
The Pharisees COULD have known this KINGDOM GOSPEL PLAN but God KNEW what they would do before they ever did it, just like he knew what Josef's brothers would do! God does not want ANY to perish but he gives all men the FREE WILL CHOICE in whom they will serve; they will either love and serve the TRUTH in His Spirit as David did, or they will PERISH for REBELLION to Him and His Kingdom in service to the LIE and any one of his many DELUSIONS as THEIR OWN CHOICE. We are now in the final stages of His Kingdom building plan as I demonstrate in this link and DESPITE any APPEARANCES you are being given the CHOICE whom you will serve TODAY!
If you want a much deeper dive into the specific meditations of the Holy Fathers of our faith culminating in King David, which will given you even MORE INSIGHT than what you already now have, I highly recommend this link to my "Meditations of David" page.
Now that you know this PLAN of God to provide His Son who would be REJECTED and SLAIN as the "Passover Lamb", and RESURRECTED in POWER to His Right Hand according to His Kingdom Building Plan, so you may also be "BORN FROM ABOVE" into Light of God's Spiritual Kingdom of TRUTH to be established on earth, even as both King David and Socrates did and wrote about (as he understood primarily from Moses who wrote all about him as Jesus said; Jn. 5:46-47), then this link provides a PRACTICAL NEXT STEP you can take in your SERVICE to establish the Kingdom of God on earth according to His Plan!
