NT Promise 11: Reign Over His Kingdom without End

Luke 1:32-33 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

The angel announces to Mary that she will have a son. Keep Him. Call Him Jesus. He will be great. He will be called Son of the Highest. He will be King on the throne of David. His Birth fulfills the covenant Messianic prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7. This prophecy is for all people.

The unconditional promise for us is that He will reign over God’s people forever and His kingdom rule will never end. The never-ending kingdom of God has come to take over our life. Jesus promises that we shall enter the kingdom by being born of water and the Spirit, from above. We are in that kingdom now. We are under God’s beneficent reign now. One Day we will experience it in its fullness and enjoy its pleasures forever without end.

We don’t see it now for it is real in the spiritual world, to which we are blind and dead. We don’t see it yet for it is for us still in our future. But we have the promise, and we have faith, which makes the promise real and present and alive. Faith is the “substance” of things hoped for. The very God who died for us is ruling our lives for our good, right now and into the eternal future.