In His character He is the same God today. He is still the unchangeable God Who

keeps His Word. Upon this all our assurance is based. If He breaks His promises to the

fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, how do we know that He will not do so to us? Let us

be thankful that "this God is our God", utterly dependable, upon Whom we can venture

for time and for eternity.

We have seen that, in order to fulfil God's plan for world blessing through Israel, the

Lord Jesus had to be manifested as the Priest-King. The priestly aspect of His work deals

with sin and its removal righteously, while the Kingly side relates to rule and

government.

Lt us consider the latter in more detail: In the O.T. days, God had made it clear to

David that one of his descendants should be this great King.

Let us turn to Psa. 89: This is the great psalm of God's faithfulness; the word

occurs seven times. Here is the God who never breaks His promises, so this gives us a

great ground of assurance, does it not? If God plans to do a certain thing, you may be

sure it is going to be accomplished. Human scheme often fail because men have not the

wisdom or the power to carry out what they plan. You may have had that experience, but

this cannot happen with God Who is both omnipotent and all-wise.

Now He says (verse 3) "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto

David my servant". God is going to make a promise concerning the seed, saying very

much the same thing as He did to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: "Thy seed will I establish

for ever"; He is going to guarantee them an existence in perpetuity, and then God adds

"and build up thy throne unto all generations". Read the whole psalm; we cannot quote

the whole of it here. We will note a few verses in the middle. God comes back to the

seed, David's son, in verse 29: "His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his

throne", the two things again, the seed and the throne, the leader, the ruler, "as the days

of heaven". Now God says, if they forsake My ways, I will judge them, I will discipline

them. "I will visit their transgressions" (verse 30) "with the rod and their iniquities with

stripes". Nevertheless, because the Lord has made a promise He cannot break it. So we

read, "Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my

faithfulness (my unchangeability) to fail. My covenant will I not break nor alter the

thing that has gone out of my lips". Will you note that? God says, I will not break My

Word, nor will I change it.

There are some interpreters of the Bible who say that He has changed it, that there is

no future for the Jew; rather God has now given all the promises to the Church which

they call spiritual Israel. In that case God has done what He said He would not do, He

has altered His Word. But that cannot be, "I will not alter the thing that has gone out of