2 Samuel 7:8 - Forerunner Commentary

2 Samuel 7:8

6 For I have not dwelt in a house ^asince the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in ^ba tent and in a tabernacle.

7 Wherever I have ^amoved about with all the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded ^bto shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’

8 Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^a“I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.

9 And ^aI have been with you wherever you have gone, ^band have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth.

10 Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will ^aplant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; ^bnor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously,

11 ^asince the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the Lord¹ tells you ^bthat He will make you a house.

12 ^a“When your days are fulfilled and you ^brest with your fathers, ^cI will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

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Let us go to II Samuel. In the seventh chapter, we find a very important covenant—and promise—given by God to David. Picking up the story in verse 8, this was God speaking to Nathan the prophet, and telling him to go to David and tell him this.

I want you to notice that this promise, prophecy, covenant weaves in between the present (I mean, the present from the time of Nathan and David.) and then suddenly leaps, all the way, way in the future. It is not something of which God was speaking that was going to occur right then, in David's time.

Now, we know that after David the Israelites were taken into captivity, and they have never returned to that place. So now this utterance becomes a prophecy. He is talking about something that has not occurred yet. It is still yet "future" for you and me.

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