Messianic Government of Biafrans Kingdom The Government of the Messianic Kingdom Isaiah 9: 6-7 DIG: How does Isaiah define the Messianic? What expectations would this arouse in you if you heard Isaiah pronounce it? What type of Son or Ruler would you expect to arise? How would this be different than in the past? How would it make you feel? REFLECT: How does the New Covenant interpret what this prophecy means (see Matthew 4:12-17; Luke 1:32; John 8:12)? Of the titles given here, which fit yahshua as you know Him? How does He reign in your life? For us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Yahweh Mighty, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over His kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD of heaven’s angelic armies will accomplish this (Isaiah 9:6-7). The Messianic Kingdom will be administrated through an absolute monarchy with a definite chain of command and lines of authority. The absolute monarch will be Yahshua the messiyah. The delegated authority will be split into two branches: a Jewish branch of government and a Gentile branch, each in turn having a chain of command. Isaiah 2:2-3 tells us: In the last days, the mountain of Yahweh Messianic Temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the Yahweh Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths. His rulings will go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem” (see my commentary on Isaiah It – Look to the Rock from which You Were Cut, and to the Quarry form which You Were Hewn). Yahshua the Messianic will rule as King. That Yahshua will sit upon the throne of David (Jeremiah 23:5-6, 33:14-17) from Jerusalem (Psalm 24:7-10), and rule Israel and all the Gentile nations of the world (Isaiah 9:6-7; Zechariah 14:9) is clear from both the Old Covenant (Psalm 2:6-8) and the New Covenant (Luke 1:30-33). Justice, holiness, and righteousness will characterize His reign so that the innocent will receive justice and the guilty will be condemned (Psalm 72:1-19). He will rule as a sovereign monarch with an iron scepter (2:27, 12:5, 19:15), and in the power of the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 11:1-5). Thus, Messiyah will be both King of Israel and King of the world. Under His absolute authority and monarchy there will be two branches of government established, a Gentile branch and a Jewish branch.436 There will be a Gentile branch of government (20:4-6). Both Gentile believers that were raptured before the Great Tribulation and the Tribulation martyrs who were the Gentile souls seen under the golden altar of incense in heaven (6:9-11), will rule with Messianic during the Millennium. The martyrs were beheaded either because they refused to worship the beast or his image, or they refused to take his mark on their forehead or on their right hand. Therefore, the Church and the Tribulation martyrs will co-reign with the Messianic King over the Gentile nations (see Fk – Gentiles in the Messianic Kingdom). They will be Messiyah representatives and carry out His decrees to the unsaved nations. With Him, they will rule with an iron scepter. Because the Jews are to be regathered in the Land of Israel and possess it once again, all the Gentile believers will live in the Gentile nations where they will carry out their ministry of ruling with an iron scepter. They will visit Israel, visit Jerusalem and worship in the Messianic Temple, but they will live and minister among the unsaved Gentile nations. During the Messianic Kingdom, the different Gentile nations will have kings over them. All kings will bow down to Messiyah and all the Gentile nations will serve Him (Psalm 72:11). These kings will have their natural bodies, while the believers ruling over them will have their resurrected bodies. While the kings will have dominion over the various nations, they themselves will be under the authority of the Church and the Tribulation martyrs. Accordingly, in the Gentile branch of government, the chain of command will be from Messiyah to the Church and Tribulation martyrs, to the kings of the Gentile nations, and finally, to the Gentile nations themselves. There will be a Jewish branch of government. The absolute monarchy of the Messianic will extend to Israel as well as to the Gentile nations. But directly under Yahshua, having authority over all Israel, will be the resurrected David, who will be given the dual titles of king and prince. He will be a king because he will rule over Israel (Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 34:23-24, 37:24-25; Hosea 3:5), and he will be a prince because he will be under the authority of Yahshua the Messiyah. The Gentile nations will have kings, and Israel will have a king. The difference is that the Gentile kings will have their natural bodies, while king David will have his resurrected body.437 On two occasions, Yahshua promised that the twelve apostles would rule over the twelve tribes in the Messianic Kingdom (Mathew 19:28; Luke 22:28-30). We have no idea which apostle will rule over which tribe. The answer to that question will have to wait until the Millennial Kingdom comes. In addition to king David and the twelve apostles, there will be others simply identified as princes. See, the King, Yahshua the king of Messianic will reign righteously, and princes will rule justly (Isaiah 32:1 NASB). These princes will be in positions of authority, and their character will be righteous (Ezekiel 45:8). The resurrected Zerubbabel could be among those future princes (Haggai 2:20-23). Judges and counselors will also be appointed in the Messianic Kingdom. Yahweh says: I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City (Isaiah 1:26). This position of authority will be particularly connected to the City of Jerusalem. These judges and counselors will be responsible for ruling justly. There will be no travesty of justice in the Millennial Kingdom. The final link in the chain of command of the Jewish branch of the Messianic government is that Israel will rule over the Gentiles. This was part of Yahweh promise to Israel: For Yahweh your father will bless you, as He promised you – you will lend money to many nations without having to borrow, and you will rule over many nations without their ruling over you (Deuteronomy 15:6 CJB). Ruling over the Gentiles will be part of Israel’s reward for obedience. Moses said: If you listen closely to what the Yahweh says, observing and obeying all his commands which I am giving you today, Yahweh will raise you high above all the nations on earth (Deuteronomy 28:1 CJB also see Deuteronomy 28:13). In addition to the statements found in the Torah, the Prophets also describe Israel’s future ruling over the Gentile nations. For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob – He will once again choose Israel and resettle them in their own land, where foreigners will join them, attaching themselves to the house of Jacob. Peoples will take and escort them to their homeland, and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of Yahweh as male and female slaves. They will make their captors captive and rule over their oppressors (Isaiah 14:1-2 CJB, 49:22-23 and 61:6-7). Therefore, the chain of command in the Jewish branch of the messianic government will be from the Messiyah, to King David, to the twelve apostles, to the princes, to the judges and counselors to the nation of Israel, who will rule over the Gentile nations.
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