Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Mar. 26, 2026
Update	: Mar. 26, 2026
Parts	: 03

Synopsis:



Continuing our discussion from part two, following are some additional Bible verses where Jesus was recognized as the son -- or descendant -- of King David by the common people and Apostles, and likewise as a fulfillment of many ancient prophecies regarding the continuation of the royal Davidic Dynasty:

"And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli . . . Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David, Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,"


"And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me."


"Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That CHRIST COMETH OF THE SEED OF DAVID, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? So there was a division among the people because of him."


"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Concerning his SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, WHICH WAS MADE OF THE SEED OF DAVID ACCORDING TO THE FLESH; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:"


"Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. Remember that JESUS CHRIST OF THE SEED OF DAVID was raised from the dead according to my gospel:"


"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, HE THAT HATH THE KEY OF DAVID, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;"


"And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDA, THE ROOT OF DAVID, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."


"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID, and the bright and morning star."


So to reiterate the key point I shared with you in part two, that is why the covenant that is mentioned in Psalm 89 was specifically made to David's house, to David's throne, and to David's royal heirs. It was NOT made in general to the Jews themselves, as modern, pro-Israel, Zionist Christians like to insist. It was a covenant regarding royal lineage and royal descendancy. It was actually a Messianic covenant regarding a future Messianic kingdom that had been foretold through many Messianic prophecies. To emphasize again that the covenant which is mentioned in Psalm 89 was specifically made with King David, and was NOT the general covenant which God made with the Israelites regarding their possession of the land of Canaan, consider also the following verses which we find in the very same Psalm. As you can see, there is no mention of the promise of land whatsoever:

"I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah."


This reflects back on what I first shared with you in part one of this same series. That is that we need to be very careful regarding those people -- meaning pro-Israel Christians -- who either out of ignorance, or perhaps even intentionally, choose to ignore certain Bible verses, or else distort or pervert the meaning of certain verses so that said verses conform to what they have chosen to believe. In my view, this appears to be what some of them have done with Psalm 89. They have confused the specific dynastic covenant that God made with King David, with the land covenant that God made to Abraham, when they are not exactly the same thing. Yes, these two covenants do indeed overlap, but they each have their particular blessings and promises.

Regarding the Abrahamic covenant, as I point out in other BBB articles such as "Genesis 12:1-3 Deception: Exposed!", this promise, and this covenant with King David, actually finds its roots with the Patriarch Abraham approximately one thousand years earlier when God made the first covenant and promise to Abraham regarding his future descendants, and the possession of Canaan. Sadly, the proper meaning of that covenant and that promise -- meaning to Abraham -- has also been rather grossly misinterpreted by these modern, misguided, pro-Israel, Zionist Christians, and applied to modern biological Jews, or at least to those people who claim to be biological Jews. That is a controversy we can discuss at another time.

Suffice it to say that the Zionist Christians concentrate on a physical interpretation, and they point to biological Jews, and to the physical nation of Israel, which results in them supporting everything that Israel does -- even when it is so wrong -- such as the current violent Iran War where they are foolishly cheering on Israel with every bomb that they drop on Iran. This very same misguided understanding has likewise infiltrated the White House, and it is why Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, NAR -- New Apostolic Reformation -- and the Dominionists see absolutely nothing wrong with what the USA and Israel are doing to Iran.

In fact, they truly believe that it is their divine destiny and duty to do these ungodly things. They are so fixated on, mesmerized by, and grossly deceived and blinded by the Jews and the land of Israel. They are deathly afraid to say or do anything which might appear to be against Israel, for fear that doing so may bring the curse and very wrath of God down upon them. That is precisely how misguided those Christians are. Please refer to the aforementioned article -- "Genesis 12:1-3 Deception: Exposed!" -- as well as to "Iran War and the Mind of the President" for all of the details.

The main thing that I want you to see here is that while the Zionist Christians point to the physical land of Israel, and the physical people, and while they concentrate on that, the true importance of the covenant to Abraham, and the covenant to David, lies in the significance of the dynastic SPIRITUAL seed of faith of Abraham -- meaning, of course, Abraham's son Isaac -- which led to Jacob, then eventually to King David, then passed through David's descendants, ultimately leading to the birth of Jesus Christ.

Everything that happened in the Old Testament was about the dynastic line of succession, and ultimately the revelation of not simply an earthly kingdom that was founded on a small, controversial piece of land situated in the Middle East, but much more importantly, the amazing revelation of an eternal, spiritual Kingdom of God, in which Jesus would reign as the heir of King David, sitting on a throne next to His Father. It was also about our very Salvation, because as we are told in the Scriptures, we were each predestinated to be the very grateful subjects of His wonderful Heavenly Kingdom, just as all those going back millennia were chosen as well. Consider the following group of Bible verses which confirm this point:

"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."


"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you . . . If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."


"So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen."


"For many are called, but few are chosen."


"And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days."


"And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed."


"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren."


"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love . . . Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will . . . In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:"


"But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"


"Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?"


"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"


"These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful."


During His time on the Earth, Jesus offered this Kingdom to the people of Israel. However, sadly, many of them foolishly chose to reject it, preferring instead their little piece of land between the two seas -- Mediterranean Sea and Dead Sea -- and a temporary kingdom which they ultimately lost anyway, when the scourge and wrath of Rome came down upon them in 70 AD during the First Jewish-Roman War. I discuss these events in articles such as my lengthy, in-depth series "Vespasian, Titus and the Fall of Jerusalem". However, not only did they lose their physical kingdom, but as we learned in part one, Jesus prophesied that the spiritual Kingdom of God would be ripped from them as well. So it has actually been a double tragedy which continues to this very day due to unbelief.

What I find equally interesting is the fact that just as the Patriarch Abraham lived about one thousand years BEFORE King David, Jesus appeared on the Biblical timeline about one thousand years AFTER the reign of King David. Well how about that!? Is that by God's very own design? Turning to Jeremiah 31:35-36, which is also quoted by pro-Israel Christians, in this case, the word "seed" is not specifically referring to the house, throne and royal lineage of King David as we saw in Psalm 89. In this case, the word "seed" is being applied to the nation of Israel in general. Let me share those verses with you again to refresh your memory. I have added a few words in brackets for the sake of clarification:

"Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me [meaning the Sun, Moon and stars], saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever."


Now, as we have seen in previous Bible verses, God is once again affirming that He is a man of His word. He will keep whatever vows and promises He makes. As we learned in part one, the Apostle Paul wrote that God cannot deny Himself. He remains faithful to Himself and to His word. However, there is something very important which a lot of Christians seem to miss or forget, and that is the fact that God's promises and blessings hinge upon our obedience to His Will for each of our lives. In other words, we must meet God's conditions FIRST, if we expect Him to bless us, and keep His word to us.

My dear friends, this is NOT a man-made doctrine. This is NOT just me saying this. This is actually a Scriptural fact. There are plenty of examples in the Bible where in so many words, God says "If you will do this, then I will do that." It is clearly a CONDITION arrangement. It is a CONDITIONAL agreement. If you still doubt that this is so, then please consider the following clear-cut Biblical examples where we see this arrangement in effect:

"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:"


"And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE THIS THING, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I WILL BLESS THEE, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; BECAUSE THOU HAST OBEYED MY VOICE."


"And [Moses] said, IF THOU WILT diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee."


"And it shall come to pass, IF THOU SHALT hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, IF THOU SHALT hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, IF THOU SHALT keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways."


"And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and THOU SHALT CALL THEM TO MIND among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And SHALT RETURN unto the LORD thy God, and SHALT OBEY his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That THEN the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul."


"That IF THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH the Lord Jesus, and SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART that God hath raised him from the dead, THOU SHALT BE SAVED. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."


"Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."


"But SEEK YE FIRST the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."


It's really hard to miss, isn't it? The truth is right there in front of your eyes in black and white. As I've explained before, please notice that even our very Salvation is based on a conditional IF statement, just like in software coding. Any of my readers who are programmers will be quite familiar with IF and THEN statements. For those of my readers who are not programmers, what that means is that IF this condition exists, THEN this should happen next, ELSE that should occur. This is very basic programming code.

In very similar fashion, IF we confess with our mouth, IF we believe in our heart, THEN we'll be saved -- Romans 10:9-10. That is why even John 3:16 also says "whosever believeth". IF we do not believe, THEN we are not saved. We have to make the choice to believe what we have heard. We see the exact same thing occurring with John 1:12 which states "But as many as received him." So again, we have to receive Christ in order to be saved. We must meet God's condition. In each example I have given you, there has been a clear-cut condition that we must meet, and a particular blessing to be gained IF we meet that condition. Furthermore, even Jesus Himself had to meet His very own Father's condition in order to purchase our Salvation. As all Christians know, the price that Jesus had to pay, and the condition which He had to meet, was shedding His blood on a Roman cross as the Perfect Sacrifice for sin. Thus, we find verses in the New Testament such as these:

"Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."


"For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."


"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."


"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."


"Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men."


"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."


"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."


So, my friends, what does all of this mean? Quite simply, it means that while God will never break His word, and while He will remain faithful to it, it most certainly does NOT mean that we will never break our word to Him, or that we will never fail to meet His conditions, whatever they happen to be. We can break our vows. We can break our promises. We can become rebellious against Him and backslide in our faith. As I explain in the seven-part series entitled "The Fruits of Disobedience", that is precisely what the ancient Israelites did over and over again, and in a very serious way at that.

So exactly what happened each time that they did this? Well, as I explain in the aforementioned series, God was forced to repeatedly swat down the Israelites, and humble them, until they finally learned their lesson. In fact, as I explain in that series, and also discuss in a number of other Bill's Bible Basics articles, as it turns out, on three different occasions down through Biblical and secular history, God had to remove a large part of the Israelites from their homeland, and He had them enslaved for extended periods of time in the lands of their foreign enemies. He simply cast them out from His sight like a divorced woman, as we also saw in part one of this same series. Thus, three invasions by the Assyrians, the Babylonians and the Romans resulted in three diasporas, or dispersions. If you want to know the specific details, then I encourage you to read the series.

So here we are today, now entering the second quarter of the twenty-first century, and the Jews, or at least the people who claim to be true Jews, are back in their land yet again. But the big question is this: Is this return truly by Divine Providence as the Jews and the pro-Israel Zionist Christians insist? In other words, did this return actually occur as a fulfillment of Bible prophecy as these Jews and Christians believe, or was it merely the product of the political will of man? This is an issue which I directly address in my 2023 four-part series called "Modern Deceptions: Return to Israel, the Fig Tree and This Generation". I likewise discuss this same topic in my other 2023 three-part series called "Modern Deception: Shall a Nation Be Born at Once?". For now though, allow me to offer three Bible verses for your consideration:

"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."


"And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it."


Before we conclude this series, we must swing back around to a subject which we discussed earlier. Whether you personally believe that the return of the Jews to Israel occurred by the Will of God, or by the political will of man, it still does NOT change one important basic fact. And what is that? It is that the vast majority of Jews, or so-called Jews, however you personally wish to refer to them, remain a stubborn, lost and unsaved people. Yes, they've got their hunk of land, but that is all they've got. As we have already discussed, living in the nation of Israel is totally pointless from an eternal perspective, as long as the Jews continue to reject Christ. They can totally obliterate Iran and be militarily victorious against every other Muslim or Arab nation which may rise up against them. But as Jesus said, they will ultimately die in their sins, and be cast out of the Kingdom of God, as long as they remain in a state of unbelief. In my book, that is all that truly matters.

With these thoughts, I will bring this article to a close. It is my hope that you've found it informative and enlightening, and I pray that it has been a blessing in your life as well. If you have an account with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or with any other social network, I would really appreciate if you'd take the time to click or tap on the corresponding link that is found on this page. Thanks so much, and may God bless you abundantly!

For additional information and further study, you may want to refer to the list of reading resources below which were either mentioned in this article, or which contain topics which are related to this article. All of these articles are likewise located on the Bill's Bible Basics web server. To read these articles, simply click or tap on any link you see below.

Ancient Languages and KJV Bible Translation

Are You Deceived and Don't Even Know It?

Are You Flexible?

Do You Seek the Truth or Short-Change Yourself?

Doctrinal Correction: The Proper Way to Do It

Facebook False Prophets and Misguided Teachers

Fight Against Futurism!

Genesis 12:1-3 Deception: Exposed!

Greater Israel Doctrine: Exposed!

Have You Sold Your Soul for a Pound of Flesh?

Humility in Our Understanding of God's Word

Jesus Christ's Return: Have We Been Deceived?

Modern Deception: Shall a Nation Be Born at Once?

Modern Deceptions: Return to Israel, the Fig Tree and This Generation

My Evolving Theology

One From Beyond: Hebrew of Hebrews

Please Stop Misinterpreting the Scriptures

Should Christians Engage in Doctrinal Debates?

So, You Have Got It All Figured Out, Do You?

The Fruits of Disobedience

The Heavenly Vision: Have You Got It?

The Office of Prophets and Teachers

The Only Credentials You Need!

The Parable of the Sower: Salvation and Service

The Theologian War and Man Worship

The Wisdom of God Versus the Philosophy of Men

Tradition or Truth? Old Wine or New Wine?

Understanding the Bible in Context

Vespasian, Titus and the Fall of Jerusalem

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