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kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1: 32, 33)., When a dying Saviour hung upon Calvary’s cross, there fluttered over Him the superscription, “JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS” (John 19:19). Indeed He was, and is, the King of the Jews. It makes > no difference that the Jews have never acknowledged Him > as such. The key to the house of David is His, and the throne of David is a throne as literal as the throne of the King of England. Some Bible scholars to the contrary notwithstanding, this is not a flowery figure of speech. By law, by lineage and by the eternal will of God, Jesus is the heir to the earthly, visible, actual throne of David, and God will see to it that He shall reign whose right it is. Until that time, Gpd’s chosen people can have no true head. Jesus alone has the keys to David’s house and when He shuts it, no man can open. He Has the Key of World Government There is coming a day when He shall reign “till he hath put all enemies under his feet” (1 Cor. 15:25). Kings, dictators; usurpers have tried to rule this world. Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon and Hitler tried it but they did not have the keys. They ran up against a stone wall. For Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords and when He closes a door, man cannot open it—not even with a blitzkrieg! Not long ago on a Sunday afternoon, I sat beside my radio, trying to tune in the familiar Old-Fashioned, Revival Hour. Reception was poor; interference was bad. I turned the dial right and left trying to get rid of the (Continued on Page 109)
\ MONO the many titles of our wonderful Lord, is .. / \ the most significant one of ' “The Keeper of the X ” \ . Keys.” The Saviour carries at His side the keys of : Heaven and' of earth, keys to the seen and the unseen, keys to the past and keys to the future, keys to opdn your smallest problem and keys to unlock the universe itself. He Has the Key of the House of David In Isaiah 22, God, through His prophet, thundered against a certain official named Shebna. He was a politi cian, and a crook—nothing unusual. Because he was feathering his own nest at the expense of others, God threatened to disown him; He warned him, “I will toss thee like a ball.” Here is a corrupt treasurer being thrown out with a vengeance. In his place, God promised to install Eliakim: “The key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open” (Isa. 22:22). *Immediately these words spoken by our Lord in Revela tion 3:7 come to mind: “These things saith he that is holy, he-that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that ,’ operieth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man ppeneth." Eliakim prefigured Jesus Christ, who is ’the one and only rightful heir to the throne of David. '“The government shall be upon his shoulder . . . Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of DaVid, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with jus tice from henceforth even for ever” (Isa, 9:6, 7). It was the message of the angel to Mary: “The Lord God shall ' give unto him the throne of his father David: And he «ha.il rsign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his
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