Will David Rule Again?

Hosea 3: 1 – 5

Will David rule again?

1 Then the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans.” 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley. 3 And I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.” 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days.

In today’s Scripture study we read an interesting verse 5 ‘Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king.’ So a good question to consider is ‘Will David reign with Jesus in the Millennial Kingdom?

After the Tribulation and the Battle of Armageddon our Lord Jesus Christ will establish His 1,000-year Kingdom on earth. The prophet Jeremiah prophesied in chapter 30 verse 9 of his book that our Holy Father God Yahweh promises Israel that the yoke of foreign oppression would be cast off forever, and “But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.”

Speaking of the same time, God says through the prophet Ezekiel as recorded in chapter 37 verse 24, “My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees”.

From the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, some have concluded that King David will be resurrected during the Millennium and be installed as co-regent over Israel, ruling the Kingdom with our Lord and God Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah’s and Ezekiel’s prophecies should be understood this way: the Jews would one day return to their own country, their yoke of slavery would be removed, their fellowship with God would be restored, and God would provide them with a King of His own choosing. This King would, in some way, be like King David of old. These passages can refer to none other than the long-awaited Messiah, the “Servant of the Lord” as recorded in Isaiah chapter 42 verse 1, “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.”

The Jews sometimes referred to the Messiah as “David” because it was known the Messiah would come from David’s lineage. The New Testament often refers to Jesus as the “Son of David” like we read in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 15 verse 22, “And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.”

There are other reasons, besides being the Son of David, that the Messiah is referred to as “David.” King David in the Old Testament was a man after God’s own heart as we glean from the book of Acts 13 verse 22, “And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’

He was an unlikely king of God’s own choosing, and the Spirit of God was upon Him taught to us in the book of 1 Samuel 16, “So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” hen Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.”

David, then, is a type of Christ (a type is a person who foreshadows someone else).

We will get into this deeper as we go through the chapter but another example of this kind of typology is Elijah, whose ministry foreshadowed that of John the Baptist to the extent that Malachi chapter 3 verse 5 called John “Elijah” behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.”

So just to state right from the start of this teaching that David will be resurrected at the beginning of the Millennium, along with all the other Old Testament saints. And David will be one of those who reign with Jesus in the Kingdom recorded in the book of Daniel chapter 7 verse 27, then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.’.