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The Mighty Man of David
By BROTHER JOHN THOMAS
SECOND SAMUEL CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Jehovah delivered many oracles or announcements concerning the future through David, the chief of the mighty men of Israel, whom He had exalted to the throne of His kingdom. There was one oracle, however, in particular, styled, in Samuel, "The Last Words of David," inserted as an introduction to the list of David's 37 heroes, who, though casting into the shade the most daring exploits of after ages, the present not excepted, did not attain the military renown of their king, whose feats of arms were celebrated in the songs of Israel, saying — "Saul hath slain his 1,000's, but David his tens of 1,000's."
David's roll of the mighty is registered in 2nd Samuel 23. The record begins with his own name, as "the mighty man enthroned." But, being himself only a patriarch of a MIGHTIER HERO, to spring from his royal line, he places on the roll an oracle concerning HIM, and the fate of the enemies with whom he shall contend in battle, before he proceeds to inscribe the names and some of the mightiest deeds of the most renowned of the armies of Israel. David uttered no more oracles after this. He had himself been a man of war; but he foresaw a mightier man always before him, even the Meshiach, or Anointed One, whom Jehovah had promised to raise up from among the dead to sit upon his throne. His own deliverance from death he regarded as involved in this event; for Jehovah had promised that his house or family, his kingdom, and his throne should be established for the Age "before his (David's) face."
But if this one of his deceased posterity should not be resurrected, then was his hope in vain: for, no resurrection of Messiah, there would be no house, no kingdom, no throne for any one of David's sons in David's presence in the Age to Come. David knew this; and therefore he placed on record among the archives of his nation, his last words upon the subject, declaring his own prophetic character; that he had no hope of any other delight in the far-off future short of the realization of what Jehovah had covenanted to him concerning it. This being "all his salvation and ail his joy," he registered his faith and hope on the roll of the mighty, and having laid down his prophetic pen, which had long been, upon this theme, "the pen of a ready writer," his days were ere long fulfilled; when he fell asleep and was laid with his fathers, to rest until Jehovah's trumpet should be blown to awaken His warriors to battle under the standard of His Anointed, when he shall appear to smite the sons of Belial, and consume them as crackling thorns upon the spot. - 1974 Berean 355
By BROTHER JOHN THOMAS
SECOND SAMUEL CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Jehovah delivered many oracles or announcements concerning the future through David, the chief of the mighty men of Israel, whom He had exalted to the throne of His kingdom. There was one oracle, however, in particular, styled, in Samuel, "The Last Words of David," inserted as an introduction to the list of David's 37 heroes, who, though casting into the shade the most daring exploits of after ages, the present not excepted, did not attain the military renown of their king, whose feats of arms were celebrated in the songs of Israel, saying — "Saul hath slain his 1,000's, but David his tens of 1,000's."
David's roll of the mighty is registered in 2nd Samuel 23. The record begins with his own name, as "the mighty man enthroned." But, being himself only a patriarch of a MIGHTIER HERO, to spring from his royal line, he places on the roll an oracle concerning HIM, and the fate of the enemies with whom he shall contend in battle, before he proceeds to inscribe the names and some of the mightiest deeds of the most renowned of the armies of Israel. David uttered no more oracles after this. He had himself been a man of war; but he foresaw a mightier man always before him, even the Meshiach, or Anointed One, whom Jehovah had promised to raise up from among the dead to sit upon his throne. His own deliverance from death he regarded as involved in this event; for Jehovah had promised that his house or family, his kingdom, and his throne should be established for the Age "before his (David's) face."
But if this one of his deceased posterity should not be resurrected, then was his hope in vain: for, no resurrection of Messiah, there would be no house, no kingdom, no throne for any one of David's sons in David's presence in the Age to Come. David knew this; and therefore he placed on record among the archives of his nation, his last words upon the subject, declaring his own prophetic character; that he had no hope of any other delight in the far-off future short of the realization of what Jehovah had covenanted to him concerning it. This being "all his salvation and ail his joy," he registered his faith and hope on the roll of the mighty, and having laid down his prophetic pen, which had long been, upon this theme, "the pen of a ready writer," his days were ere long fulfilled; when he fell asleep and was laid with his fathers, to rest until Jehovah's trumpet should be blown to awaken His warriors to battle under the standard of His Anointed, when he shall appear to smite the sons of Belial, and consume them as crackling thorns upon the spot. - 1974 Berean 355