Davidic Kingship Part III

​In this chapter, we’ll wrap up our review of Davidic Kingship and look at the concept of sovereign authority. Kingship is closely allied with the concept of sovereign authority or the power to create/accept and implement laws that govern or control actions and the power to choose leaders.   In this review, we’ll see what sovereignty looks like under the hierarchy of authority that we see the Apostle Paul set out at 1 Corinthians 11:3.
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The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

Individual Salvation
Born of the Blood
Redemption
Born Again
​Sanctification
Born of the Water > Keeps the Commandments > Born of God/Spirit

Married Exaltation
Going Onto Perfection
Becoming Perfect > Reaches the  Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son

Individual Sovereignty
At its most basic level of application, kingship and sovereignty can be applied on an individual basis, which here is the power of choice – free agency/will -to make/accept and implement law that we use to govern or control one’s own life, and the power to choose those who are in authority over us.
 
The Bible recognized individual sovereignty at the beginning when God gave Adam and Eve the choice to know good and evil by placing the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden. We see Cain choose to kill Able. We see this power of choice in the days of Noah when men chose to act on the imaginations of their hearts. We also see this concept of free will in the Book of Judges when Israel began making their own choices outside of the law of God – essentially becoming a law unto themselves.
 
“In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” – Judges 17:6
 
The objection of individual sovereignty is to maximize our enjoyment of life, liberty and happiness.​​​

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Accepting Law and Authority  >

Maximizing Life, Liberty and Happiness

Moreover, we saw at Deu 30:19, Yehovah declare that he set before Israel the laws of life and death and therefore choose life. Accordingly, we can work this model in reverse to arrive at the concept of biblical sovereignty. ​

Biblical Sovereignty

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So what God is saying here is that under Biblical Sovereignty and the acceptance of God’s law, we can maximize our enjoyment of life, liberty and happiness declared by God.  This concept of sovereignty becomes even more critical when parents and especially the fathers of families adopt the laws and authorities that affect the life, liberty and happiness of their own children.​

"We must recognize that as [Believers] for us the first and most basic government is the self-government of the [believing] man. Without this, we have a nations of slaves." (Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 3, pg 2
 
 
​A Father's Sovereign Authority
When Yehovah restored His relationship with Israel in the Book of Exodus, He recognized the father’s sovereign authority by employing the Threshold Covenant.
 
 “Man’s first dwelling-place was the cave, or the tent, or the hut, in which he made a home with his family. The threshold and hearth of that dwelling-place was the boundary of his earthly possessions. It was the sacred border or limit of the portion of the earth’s surface over which he claimed control, and where he and his were under the special protection of the deity with whom he was in covenant. Therefore the threshold hearth was hallowed as a place of covenant worship.” - Clay Trumball, The Threshold Covenant
 
Moreover, this concept of covenant making at the door threshold with the father of the home expanded under the Sinai Covenant and Israel’s law code. Israel was commanded to place the law of the covenant on their door posts that we see in the Shema – Deu. 6:4-6
 
Here is an application of establishing the father’s sovereign authority under God – the Name of God over the door and a mezuzah on the right door post.

Sovereignty under the Sinai Covenant
When we look at sovereignty under the Law of the Son, the Sinai Covenant is key. The Sinai covenant provides the specific laws and rules that establishes a father's sovereign power and authority.  John Rushdooney wrote quoting Matthew Sorin,

"According to the order and constitution [Sinai Covenant] of the divine government, man is appointed to rule in the affairs of this life. It is his prerogative to hold the reins of domestic government, and to direct the family interest, so as to bring them to a happy and honorable termination.” (Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. I, p. 203)

John Rushdooney wrote further,

"God’s basic social institution is the family, to which God’s law entrusts all the basic powers in government except the death penalty, which is reserved to the state. The control of children, of property, of inheritance, of education, and of welfare belong to the Family." (Sovereignty p.12)

A father’s responsibility as a “king” to his family includes to –
Preside by establishing and administering the law of God to his family.
Provide for the family’s basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter.
Protect the family from harm.

Mothers as Queens
Mothers in the family act in unison with fathers who assist with the father's responsibilities.
 

Sovereignty under the Davidic Covenant
When we look at kingship and sovereignty under the Law of the Father, the Davidic Covenant is key.  Introducing the idea of kingship under the Davidic Covenant Dr. Gileadi wrote,

"Under the terms of the Davidic Covenant, on the other hand—which God institutes in response to Israel’s demands for a king—he requires only that the king to keeps his law while the people are required to keep the king’s law."

Moreover, when we look at Davidic Covenant, we can see messianic elements embedded in the Davidic Covenant when Jesus declares that He keeps the Father’s Law and those that follow Him keep His Law at John 15:10. The Law of the Father and Son that we see at John 15:10 then provides a model of kingship and sovereignty for all who are Davidic Kings.

"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love."
 
We see the same sorts of responsibilities here for Davidic kings that we see for the fathers of families but they are responsible for a community of families to preside, provide, and protect.

 

Three Levels of Davidic-Messianic Kingship
Moreover, when we look at Sovereignty in a Davidic-Messianic context, we see three levels that correlate to Isaiah's three kingship categories - Sons, Seraphim and Yehovah-Yeshua as the King of Zion.  Each of these levels have the Davidic Covenant as foundational but vary by scope of responsibility and degree of divine power.

On the Son/Daughter/Elect level, we see married leadership who direct the affairs of family organizations and local communities, and obtain God’s earthly physical protection.

On the Seraphim/Joint-Heir level, we see married leadership who direct international affairs like Yehovah’s Endtime Servant and 144,000 and who obtain God’s earthly intervention accompanied with supernatural power and the sealing power (Enochic).

On the level of Yehovah-Yesus/King of Zion, who directs the affairs for all Humanity and who obtain deliverance from eternal sin and death through the power of the atonement and resurrection (Messianic).

Our summary looks like this –

Isaiah's Spiritual Categories/Aspects of Sovereignty	Son/Daughter/Elect	Seraphim/Joint-Heir	Jehovah/Yeshua King of Zion
Foundational Covenant	Davidic	Davidic	Davidic
Scope of Responsibility	Local Communities ​Family Organizations	International	All Humanity
Divine Power	Obtains God's Physical Protection	Supernatural Power - Miracles Power to Seal (Enochic)​	Supernatural Power - Miracles ​Power to Seal (Enochic) Power over eternal sin and death. (Messianic)

​Biblical Sovereignty
In summary, the apostle Paul sets out God’s chain of sovereign authority at 1 Cor. 11:3.  "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God."  This scripture can be summarized as follows:​​

God ​v

Messiah ​(Servants) ​v

Man ​v

Woman (Family of Individuals)

As Sovereigns under God, Believers don’t create law, their sovereignty is obtained by accepting and implementing the law that God reveals in the scriptures, because God expresses Himself and His Sovereignty through His law.
 
Sovereignty and Covenants
Moreover, the law that establishes sovereignty can be associated with God’s covenants, which are summarized below.​

Chain of Sovereign Authority	Key Covenants that Establishes Sovereign Authority
God	-
Messiah ​Servants	Messianic, Davidic Davidic
Father	Threshold, Sinai
Woman ​(Family of Individuals)	Abrahamic, Sinai