{"id":32853,"date":"2024-09-19T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2024-oniscidae-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:01:30","slug":"2024-covenant","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2024-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Covenant with David"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">God\u2019s Covenant with David<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-4-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>God declared that someone from the house of David would sit on David\u2019s throne and rule over his kingdom forever. \u201cHe will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end\u201d (Luke 1:32-33 NKJV).<\/p>\n<p>Now for this to happen, Israel must exist as a nation \u2013 it does. David\u2019s descendant must be alive \u2013 he is. Jesus Christ must return to earth \u2013 He will. He must bodily and literally sit on David\u2019s throne and reign over Israel. Mark it down, my friend. At some point in the future, Jesus\u2014the \u201cSon of the Highest\u201d\u2014will rule over Israel and the world from David\u2019s throne in Jerusalem. I cannot wait to see it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32855 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-5-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Spectacular Future Era<\/h3>\n<p>History is an ordered, orchestrated movement toward an eternal goal. God has a time line. Gabriel declared three prophecies, often called \u201cthe backbone of Bible prophecy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The angel said, \u201c<strong>God has ordered four hundred ninety years for your people [the Jews] and your holy city [Jerusalem] for these reasons: to stop people from turning against God; to put an end to sin; to take away evil; to bring in goodness that continues forever; to bring about the vision and prophecy; and to appoint a most holy place<\/strong>\u201d (Daniel 9:24 NCV).<\/p>\n<p>Have these decrees been fulfilled? No. These events have yet to occur, but they\u00a0<em>will<\/em>\u00a0occur. Obviously the angel was describing a spectacular future era, and it will be amazing!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/max-6-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.christianbook.com\/happens-next-travelers-guide-through-this\/9781400260003\/pd\/260039?event=MLPreOrder\"><em>What Happens Next<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":32855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[29],"class_list":["post-32853","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/32853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/32853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32858,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/32853\/revisions\/32858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32853"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=32853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}