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Book of Jeremiah – Jer 33:14-26 David Shall Never Want for a Man on His Throne

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Jer 33:14-26  David Shall Never Want For a Man on His Throne

[The False Doctrine of British Israelism Explained]

[Study Aired March 20, 2022]

Jer 33:14  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
Jer 33:15  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:16  In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Jer 33:17  For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
Jer 33:18  Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
Jer 33:19  And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:20  Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jer 33:21  Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jer 33:22  As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Jer 33:23  Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:24  Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Jer 33:25  Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer 33:26  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

Our study this week here in Jeremiah 33 will demonstrate with the spirit and power of the Word of God that he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is not outward in the flesh, but circumcision also is of the heart, inward by the spirit and power of the Word of God:

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
1Co 2:5  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Rom 2:28  For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29  But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

“The power of God” is “not with enticing words of man’s wisdom”. The power of God is in His “hidden wisdom” which we are told is “a mystery… which God ordained before the world unto our glory.”

1Co 2:6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the  hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Two other verses confirm that there is spiritual wisdom “hidden… [in a] mystery which God ordained before the world began… unto our glory”:

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Tit 1:2  In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Paul is speaking to us who, before Christ came into this realm, were “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in this world”:

Eph 2:11  Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12  That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

There was a “hidden wisdom” and a “demonstration of the spirit and of power” which was not capable of being seen or discerned in the words of Christ in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. It was there all along from “the beginning”:

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

When the Lord heals us, He does so through “His Word” (Psa 107:20) Whose name is “the Beginning and the End”. It was “in the Beginning [that] God made the heavens and the earth”:

Gen 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

For those to whom it is given, we see Christ right here in the first verse of scripture. It is very instructive for us to know that the word translated as “beginning” is the Hebrew word:

This is the same Hebrew word which is translated ‘firstfruit’ in this verse:

Deu 18:4  The firstfruit [H7225: ‘reshiyth’] also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first [H7225: ‘reshiyth’] of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

The holy spirit wants us to know that Christ is the beginning, the end, and everything in between. That is why we are told:

Col 1:12  Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Col 1:13  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col 1:14  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Col 1:15  Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18  And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Col 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

“The firstborn” were to be counted as “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb”:

Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.

Rev 14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

In Christ “we [are] a kind of firstfruits”:

Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

It is “with the Word of Truth” that we are ‘begotten’. It is also through His Word that we are healed and cured of all our diseases:

Psa 107:19  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:20  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

The Lord, the Word, speaks of us His people as “this city” in verse 5 in this very chapter. We were told in last week’s study:

Jer 33:6  Behold, I will bring it [us, “this city” (vs 5)] health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth [through the power of His spirit, which is His Word].

Yes, “the demonstration of the spirit and of power” is the revelation of things we did not know were right there in the Word of God:

Job 26:13  By his spirit [His Word (Joh 6:63)] he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Job 26:14  Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can understand?

We know the answer to that rhetorical question:

Mat 13:9  Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:10  And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mat 13:11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

“The things of the spirit” are not understood by simply getting a dictionary and paying close attention to the context of the words. “The things of the spirit” are understood only by those to whom “it is given… to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven”.

The words we read here today must be understood “in demonstration of the spirit and of power” and not in the wisdom of men. If we understand these words “in the wisdom of men”, we will be declaring that the Lord is a liar and not capable of working all things after the counsel of His own will because the words of this study declare that King David will never want for a man to sit on His throne nor for a priest to minister before the Lord.

Before we begin this study, I want to share with you how this chapter of scripture was used by the Lord to lead me and many hundreds of thousands of others to believe the false doctrine of British Israelism. It was easy to do because I could not at that time see that the scriptures are written “in demonstration of the spirit and of power.” I ‘saw but did not perceive’ those words of 1st Corinthians 2 at that time. All I could see was “in the wisdom of men”, who declare in all their seminaries that “If the scriptures can be understood naturally, then that is the way to take it.” That was the mantra of Ambassador University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and many other orthodox Christian seminaries. Contrast that guiding mantra of the theology departments of so many seminaries with these words which guide the understanding of those who are given to see and hear “the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven… the things of the spirit”:

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

What does Christ mean when He tells us, “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life”? What exactly is “words [which] are spirit”?

The best way to answer that question is with examples which the Lord Himself gave us to explain what He meant when He said, “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit.”

A few examples will suffice to demonstrate how the Lord’s words are spirit.

Example #one:

Luk 9:59  And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Luk 9:60  Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Those burying their dead were not physically dead, but they were spiritually dead.

Example #two:

Mat 16:5  And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
Mat 16:6  Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Mat 16:7  And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
Mat 16:8  Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
Mat 16:9  Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mat 16:10  Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mat 16:11  How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Mat 16:12  Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

False doctrines puff us up against the Word of God just as leaven puffs up bread. False doctrines spiritually blind us and make us spiritually dead by robbing us of spiritual life which comes to us only through the Lord’s spiritual, life-giving words:

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.

Example #3:

Joh 9:39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Joh 9:40  And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Joh 9:41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

The Pharisees were not physically blind. They were spiritually blind and could not see the things of the spirit.

We could continue and use every single parable Christ spoke as an example of how His words are spirit, with a spiritual message which transcends their natural outward meaning, but this will suffice for now.

Again, the apostle Paul tells us:

1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Notice closely that it is not the natural man’s fault that He does not receive “the things of the spirit”. Rather, it is because “they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.”

The following verses of our study here in this 33rd chapter of Jeremiah are a perfect example of Christ’s words which “are spirit and… life” and of “the things that are freely given to us of God”:

Jer 33:14  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
Jer 33:15  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

The natural man reads the words, “In those days, and at that time”, and he just naturally places everything about to be read off into the future. The new man, the man who has been granted to understand “the things of the spirit”, knows that the Lord is speaking of this very moment and every moment in the lives of His saints since Christ came to this earth and died for our sins. It certainly was a future event from the time of the penning of this prophecy because it speaks of “the Branch of righteousness to grow unto David.” However, “the Branch of righteousness” came to this earth over 2,000 years ago, and He has been with His Kings and priests in every generation since.

The natural man reads the words “He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land” and places those words off into a future kingdom, while the spirit of Christ within His saints discerns that our physical bodies are ‘the land’ of the “kingdom of God…  within you” upon which judgment has already come:

Luk 12:49  I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Christ within us knows that His kingdom is within us now, and that “the time is come that judgment must begin at the house [and kingdom] of God” [which is within us now]. That is the time frame of the words of this prophecy:

Jer 33:16  In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

To the natural man, Judah and Jerusalem are to be understood as speaking of physical Judah and Jerusalem. The mind of Christ immediately understands that if the kingdom of God is within us, then Judah and Jerusalem are part of that kingdom which is within.

The mind of Christ within His saints calls us “the Lord our righteousness” because Christ in us knows that He can do nothing of Himself:

Joh 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Those in whom Christ dwells know that He considers us to be as Himself:

Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

The Lord repeats this doctrine to Saul of Tarsus who became the apostle Paul:

Act 22:7  And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Act 22:8  And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

The natural man cannot receive the Truth that the kingdom of God is within His saints. Therefore the natural man has no idea how he is to apply these next verses:

Jer 33:17  For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
Jer 33:18  Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
Jer 33:19  And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:20  Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jer 33:21  Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jer 33:22  As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Jer 33:23  Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:24  Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Jer 33:25  Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer 33:26  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

There we have it. This is known among Biblical scholars as ‘the Davidic covenant’, and it was first given to king David in:

Psa 89:3  I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Psa 89:4  Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

Skipping down to verse:

Psa 89:28  My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psa 89:29  His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Psa 89:30  If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Psa 89:31  If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
Psa 89:32  Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psa 89:33  Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psa 89:34  My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psa 89:35  Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Psa 89:36  His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Psa 89:37  It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

There it is! It cannot be stated more clearly. To the natural man, God has very clearly promised King David:

Psa 89:34  My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psa 89:35  Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Psa 89:36  His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Psa 89:37  It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

The Lord does not lie, therefore my natural mind was easily misled to believe that there must be a throne of David somewhere on this earth today. In my teens I was a very “natural man” and simply overlooked the clearly defined timeline of these prophetic words:

Jer 33:14  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
Jer 33:15  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:16  In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

“In those days” refers to “that time [when] I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David.”

It certainly is not referring to the time of wicked King Zedekiah who was the last king to sit upon the outward throne of King David. “The days come when I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and the house of Judah” certainly is not referring to the time of their being carried away into captivity. There was no way for Judah and Jerusalem to be saved before the coming of “the Branch”, who even Babylonian scholars acknowledge is a reference to the coming of Christ into this natural, physical realm:

Act 4:10  Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Act 4:11  This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Act 4:12  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

The rest of this entire prophecy concerning the throne of King David is speaking of that same time when Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell safely:

Jer 33:17  For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
Jer 33:18  Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
Jer 33:19  And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:20  Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jer 33:21  Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jer 33:22  As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Jer 33:23  Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:24  Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Jer 33:25  Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer 33:26  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

I have since taken note that while the British Israelism doctrine makes such a big deal out of the need to preserve the physical throne of King David, they conveniently ignore the promise that there would always be a priest offering physical offerings.

Jer 33:18  Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

By not giving heed to the timeline plainly laid out before me, and knowing that God could not lie, I was ripe for the picking.

The timeline of scripture was:

Jer 33:15  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

This is further qualified with these words which speak of this same time:

Eze 21:26  This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove your turban! Take off your crown! Things aren’t going to remain as they used to be. What is lowly will be exalted, and what is lofty will be brought low.
Eze 21:27  A ruin! A ruin! I’m bringing about ruin!’ But this also will not happen [the exalting of the lowly and the abasement of the lofty] until he who has authority over it arrives, because I’ll give it to him. (ISV)

With a total inability to discern the things of the spirit when I read The United States and The British Commonwealth in Prophecy by Herbert W. Armstrong, that man really did at that time appear to me as a messenger and an angel sent by God:

2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

When Mr. Armstrong pointed the words of ‘the Davidic covenant’ out to me, and spun a fairy tale about Jeremiah taking the royal daughters to Ireland and from Ireland to Scotland and from Scotland to England and tied that all in with that prophecy of:

Eze 21:25  And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
Eze 21:26  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
Eze 21:27  I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

I really believed that I had found a great man of God, and I wanted to be a part of the work of God.

With no spiritual understanding, and being completely unaware that “the holy spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual”, this false doctrine appealed to my natural man who became even more puffed up in identifying myself as a physical Israelite. The throne of England had been ‘overturned’ three times, and it has been in England ever since. My poor spiritually blind eyes thought that the throne of the king of England was surely the throne which God had promised King David He would preserve as long as the moon was shining in the night skies.

I now understand that anytime the number three is involved in a prophecy, the process of judgment is also involved. “Oh earth, earth, earth” (Jer 22:29) demonstrates this principle. Jeremiah 22 is addressed to the Lord’s own people, and the whole chapter concerns the Lord’s judgments upon His people:

Jer 22:1  Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Jer 22:2  And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:

Jer 22:7  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

Again, the Lord begs His people to hear His words, and He calls them “earth, earth, earth” three times, signifying the process of judgment His people must endure while in these clay vessels:

Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Jer 22:30  Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Look at how similar the words of Ezekiel 21 are to the words of Jeremiah 22:

Eze 21:24  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
Eze 21:25  And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
Eze 21:26  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

The sins of the Lord’s own people are the same subject in both passages, and the throne of King David is again threatened with judgment for the sins of the king and his people:

Eze 21:27  I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

As it turns out, the word translated as the verb “overturn” is actually a noun and should be translated as a noun:

We are told that the noun ‘avvah’ is derived from its verb form H5753:

Since Ezekiel 21:27 is the only place in scripture when this Hebrew noun ‘avvah’ appears, we must look to its root verb to discern its meaning, and this is what we see as the above definition demonstrates:

In the original Hebrew, the word order is 5754, 5754, 5754, followed by 7760… “Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, I will…”. The King James translators put the ‘I will’ first turning the ‘overturn, overturn, overturn’ into a verb, instead of a noun.

Properly translated there are three nouns followed by a verb, and the only verb in the sentence is the Hebrew word:

The King James translates this word as ‘I will”. The LITV comes very close to a translation that accords with the sum of God’s Word:

Eze 21:25  And you, O slain, wicked prince of Israel, of whom has come his day in the time of iniquity of the end,
Eze 21:26  so says the Lord Jehovah: Remove the diadem and lift off the crown. This shall not be as this was. Lift up the low one, and make the high one low.
Eze 21:27  Ruin, ruin, ruin! I will appoint it! Also this shall not be until the coming of Him to whom is the right, and I will give it.

This is the very same message of:

Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth! Hear the Word of Jehovah!
Jer 22:30  So says Jehovah, Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days. For not one from his seed will succeed, a man sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.

When the holy spirit teaches us comparing spiritual things with spiritual, we can now see that ‘overturn, overturn, overturn’ has more to do with destroying the physical throne of King David and replacing it with Christ on the spiritual throne of our hearts judging all of our self-righteous false doctrines and destroying them with the brightness of His coming:

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Rev 3:21  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

The Old Testament is just as much the Words of Christ as are the words of the New Testament. That doctrine “is foolishness unto… the natural man”. The natural man cannot glean from the Old Testament the spirit which Christ tells us is in His words. It is foolishness to the natural man to discern a spiritual message along with the context and the natural meaning of the scriptures. Yet that is exactly what Matthew does when he quotes Hosea 11:2 and applies those words to Christ being brought up out of Egypt by Joseph and Mary:

Hos 11:1  When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Israel is not Christ, and yet Matthew applies these words to Christ:

Mat 2:15  And was there [in Egypt] until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Isaiah certainly did not have the virgin Mary in mind when he was comforting King Ahaz with these words:

Isa 7:10  Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Isa 7:11  Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Isa 7:12  But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
Isa 7:13  And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Isa 7:14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isa 7:15  Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isa 7:16  For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

The context has to do with Isaiah’s wife bearing a child as a sign to King Ahaz that the two nations coming against him would be destroyed by the Assyrians “before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good”. That is exactly what happened as the very next chapter reveals:

Isa 8:3  And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
Isa 8:4  For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

In the mind of the natural man, it is the height of foolishness to discern a spiritual message which does not fit into the context of an historical event. Context alone is all the natural mind can see or hear.

There is no denying that the historical stories of the Old Testament happened to the people of that dispensation, and they are written for our admonition because the scriptures plainly teach that doctrine.

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

If indeed “they are written for our admonition” then they were written for the sake of applying the spiritual lessons which are so clear to those who have been given to be ‘taught of the holy spirit [by] comparing spiritual things with spiritual’.

The argument of the natural mind is that if an Old Testament verse is discerned spiritually, then it has no application to the people of that time. Nothing is further from the Truth. The Lord really did call Israel out of Egypt at that time, and Assyria really did conquer the enemies of King Ahaz before Isaiah’s son could say ‘my Father, and my mother’. Having a natural and a spiritual application is how scripture is intended to be used, and yet so few are given to see or hear the things of the spirit in the words of Christ which “are spirit” in the Old and in the New Testaments.

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Christ made this statement to the hate-filled, self-righteous Saul of Tarsus:

Act 22:8  And I [Saul of Tarsus] answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

The all-powerful risen Christ who rules in the nations of this world (Dan 4:17) is simply confirming to Saul of Tarsus what He had taught while He was imprisoned in a clay vessel when He taught us all this spiritual Truth:

Mat 25:35  For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Mat 25:36  Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Mat 25:37  Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
Mat 25:38  When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Mat 25:39  Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

The name ‘Christ’ is itself spiritually intended to apply to both the natural physical Christ as well as Christ in the realm of the spirit dwelling within His spiritual body, yet how few people think of Christ in that way.

The title ‘Christ’ means ‘anointed one’. Christ was indeed anointed and sent forth from His Father. Spiritually you and I are also anointed and sent forth by Christ Himself as His anointed:

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

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