SERMON: A Davidic Dynasty

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May you be blessed in the hearing of God's word, and may the Lord be with you. Today, over the last several weeks, we've been walking through a series that has not merely preached about Christmas, or even just preached Christmas messages, but we've actually went down and burrowed underneath Christmas to find its covenantal roots.

Christmas Begins in Covenant

And what we've been learning is Christmas is not just a sentimental hallmarksy holiday, but the culmination and the climax of everything that God was doing throughout all of history from the beginning of the world, even until now.

What we've seen is that Christmas does not begin in Bethlehem. It does not originate with shepherds, or angels, or stables, or lights, tinsel, and paper. Christmas begins in covenant. It begins in Eden, where God entered into a relationship with humanity through a federal head.

It repeats itself on the mountains of Ararat, where God restrained his judgment so the world could survive long enough for the Messiah to come. It's spoken, again, beneath the stars to Abraham in the land of Canaan, where he has promised that his descendants will outnumber them.

It's thundered at the foot of Mount Sinai when the mountain is shaking and the people are terrified that the Lord is going to consume them. And again, we will see this morning that the Advent Christmas message is a message that crescendos at the covenant with David, who is a kind of Adam 5 .0.

And if you've not been here, or if you do not remember what that means, I do not blame you. We are deep into the waters of covenant theology at this point, and I'm doing my best to make it fun. But I'm arguing that God initiates relationships with five men in the Old Testament.

And these five men represent everyone. And these five men actually tell the entire story of the Old Testament. And these five men all look and talk and walk and act and fall the same way. And for ease of terms, the first one's name is Adam.

Noah is our second covenant head. We're calling him Adam 2 .0. Abraham is Adam 3 .0. Israel, as a corporate nation, is Adam 4 .0. And today, we're gonna look at David, the final covenant head, who is Adam 5 .0.

And I'm calling them all Adam because Adam means man. It's very interesting. In Genesis 1 and 2, man, Adam, is called man. And woman is called woman. She doesn't even get the name Eve until Adam names her later after the fall.

She's Esha, which means woman. He's Adam, which means man. So if you went up to him in the garden and said, what's up, man, you'd be saying his name. But we're calling him Adam not just because of that, but because these five men represent Adam in so many ways.

And because the narrative of Scripture shows us that every single one of them, these are real historical men but their lives look like Adam. And their lives are the exact same narratival story arc of redemption as Adam.

They go through the same situations as Adam. They are formed in the same way as Adam. They're put into a garden in the same way as Adam.

As we will explore.

They're all born in the dust. They all receive the spirit, the breath of God. They're all brought into a garden land. They're all given stipulations and blessings. They all go to war with the serpent in some way.

And all of them fail in the war for the cosmos. And because of them, all of them bring curses on their progeny. Today, we're gonna look at how Adam is the fifth reboot in the redemption project. I was watching a YouTube video this week while I was sick.

And it's way over my head. And it's the matrix movies that nobody likes. It was explaining that in the end of the movie, which no one has watched the end of the third movie because he only watched the first one.

But just bear with me. At the end of the third movie, the architect explains the secret of the matrix is that this is the sixth time that it's already been rebooted. And your role is only to reboot it again.

Zion existed before, it existed again. It's been destroyed six times. And all of these people who were brought out of the matrix who have hope that they are the ones who are gonna rescue the world are actually just playing a part that the machines have carved out for them.

And that Neo was meant to just play a part of turning the key and rebooting the matrix. That's my understanding of it. Spoiler alert, it's a 20-year-old movie if you haven't seen it. That's like when people tell spoiler alerts of the sixth sense and everybody's like,.

Oh, I was just getting ready to watch that.

No, you weren't. No, you weren't.

That's a lie. But in a similar way, God is now rebooting the redemption project through a man named David, who's Adam 5 .0, a shepherd boy who was elevated to a mighty king. And we're gonna see today that by him looking like Adam and his covenant playing out like Adam and like Humpty Dumpty, him falling like Adam, that he's going to make way for the greatest king of all.

So if you will turn with me, grab your Bibles. This is the first week in a while that we've done this because I've read so many passages.

All over the Scriptures.

That I've told you to leave your Bibles down. Today, turn with me to 2 Samuel 7, and we're gonna read together. This week, we're gonna read only one passage, but it is gonna be the entire chapter of 2 Samuel 7.

And you're gonna get to see the entirety of the Davidic covenant playing out. Davidic covenant is the covenant God made with David. So if you will join me in 2 Samuel 7 as we observe this covenant, and then we reflect upon it in the moments ahead.

This is the word of the Lord.

Now it came about when the king lived in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, that the king said to Nathan, the prophet, see now I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.

Nathan said to the king, go do all that is in your mind for the Lord is with you. But in the same night, the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying, go and say to my servant David, thus says the Lord, are you the one who should build me a house to dwell in?

For I have not dwelt in a house since the days I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle. Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I commanded to shepherd my people Israel saying, why have you not built me a house of cedar?

Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel. I've been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you.

And I will make you a great name like the names of the great men who are on the earth. I will also appoint a place for my people Israel and I will plant them and they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them anymore as formerly.

Even from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and I will give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you. When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you who will come forth from you and I will establish his kingdom.

He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and strokes of the sons of men, but my loving kindness shall not depart from him as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

The house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever. Your throne shall be established forever. In accordance with all these words and all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. Then David the king went in and sat before the Lord and he said, who am I, O Lord God?

And what is my house that you have brought me this far? And yet this was insignificant in your eyes, O Lord God, for you have spoken also of the house of your servant concerning the distant future. And this is the custom of man, O Lord God.

Again, what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God. For the sake of your word and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness to let your servant know. For this reason, you are great, O Lord God.

For there is none like you. There is no God besides you. According to all that we have heard with our ears and what one nation on earth is like, your people, Israel, whom God went to redeem for himself as a people and to make a name for himself and to do a great thing for you and awesome things for your land before your people whom you have redeemed for yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods.

For you have established for yourself your people, Israel, as your own people forever. And you, O Lord, have become their God. Now, therefore, O Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant in his house, confirm it forever and do as you have spoken that your name may be magnified forever by saying the Lord of hosts is God of Israel and may the house of your servant, David, be established before you.

For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made a revelation to your servant saying, I will build you a house. Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. Now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are truth and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Now, therefore, may it please you to bless the house of your servant that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken. And with your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever.

Let's pray. Dear Lord, thank you that we get to dive in and examine this great covenant with this man, David, this little runt of a man, this shepherd boy that you called to be king over your people, Israel.

Lord, I pray that as we pull back the layers of this covenant and of this man, that we would see what you intend us to see. Lord, I pray that we would hear with deafening clarity the heavy syllables and the words forever that rang out of 2 Samuel 7.

Lord, I pray that we would feel the despair when we see that promise challenged. And Lord, I pray that we would see the joy when we see it fulfilled. And it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Now, Adam, or David, is an Adam 5 .0.

He's the five iteration of this Adam. David is not just a king that God introduces to replace the scoundrel Saul. The scriptures introduce him as a foray into a new creation. The evil imposter king had a tragic death and a burial just as the new king is rising up right underneath his nostrils, which if you're keeping score, reminds us an awful lot of how Jesus came into the world, doesn't it?

Born under the reign of an imposter king who went mad like Saul, who tried to kill David like Saul, and that King Herod died a horrific death like Saul as the infant Jesus was rising into his kingdom.

The connections to Christmas are astounding, but that's not the one we're gonna be focused on. By the time David enters the story of Israel, Israel has its own kind of death spiral that's occurring. The people have inhabited the land, but they have not inhabited it in a truly godly way.

They've polluted it with all kinds of idolatry in imitation of their ever maddening, tall and handsome king. And you may recall how Saul never went and collected the Ark of the Covenant. If you remember, the Ark of the Covenant was the golden box with the mercy seat on top of it, where the Lord promised that his presence would dwell upon the earth inside of the tabernacle, inside of the tent of meeting, inside of the Holy of Holies.

This precious commodity where the Spirit of God promised that he would dwell may in a field getting rained on for years and years and years because Eli surrendered it because of the wickedness of his sons and Saul never went and claimed it.

The Philistines took it. If you remember the story, it's one of the great humorous stories of the Bible. The Philistines took it, they put it in the idol of their demon God. And when they woke up the next morning, their demon God had fallen prostrate before the Ark of the Covenant, showing the supremacy of the one true God.

They stood their statue back up thinking, well, he's still powerful. He's still more powerful than this God. We just have to stand him back up. It's okay. Then next time he falls in, his head falls off, which is an astounding and very interesting story.

So the Philistines are like, I don't want this thing. And they throw it out in the middle of the field. And there it sits. And Saul never goes to claim it the entirety of his reign, which is an astounding thing that the greatest piece of furniture in the Holy of Holies sat in the middle of a field for the entirety of this Benjamite's rule.

It's an astounding thing. Now, in the monumental moment of this context in a young man's life, fresh out of the dusty fields, watching his sheep, the young lad David was called out of the dust like Adam and called into the palace like Adam.

Do you see the correlation here? He's called out of the dusty parts of the world. And it's very interesting that he also receives the breath of God. I find this so fascinating. Remember, Adam is formed out of the dust and God breathes into his nostrils the breath of life and Adam becomes a real living man.

And then God takes him and places him into the garden, which is a kind of cosmic temple and palace for the worship of Yahweh. And yet this is exactly what's happening to David. David is a man like Adam who's formed in the dust of the fields and he's taken out of the dust of the fields and he's brought before the prophet Samuel and the prophet Samuel anoints him with oil.

And it says that the spirit of God came upon David. Now, what is that all about? Well, the word spirit, I've said this before, is ruach in Hebrew. Children, say with me, ruach. Hebrew is a very interesting language.

And it's not impolite if you're saying Hebrew. Ruach means breath, but it also means spirit. So when Adam was formed out of the dust, the ruach of God went into Adam. When David came out of the dusty fields and was anointed by Samuel, the ruach of God came upon him.

The text says that the spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that moment forward. The breath of God came upon the dusty man who was formed by God and brought into the garden palace.

He's Adam.

Do you see the connection?

Adam is dust until God breathes on him. David is just a shepherd forgotten by his own father when the lineup happened until God breathes on him and he becomes king anointed. David is not simply chosen.

He is like Adam, animated into a new living man. For instance, Adam, once he's breathed into, he ceases being what he once was and he becomes the royal king of the garden city. And then he's placed over that holy realm, given vocation, purpose, calling authority to guard it, keep it, and rule over all the days of his life under the authority of God to the glory of God forever.

David receives the same sort of pattern. Once the spirit rushes upon him, God yanks him out of the fields, places him into the garden palace and give us him the task of being the shepherd over my people Israel.

Second Samuel 5, two. Adam is breathed into and placed into the garden temple. David is breathed into by the spirit of God and placed into the garden palace. The vocation is identical between these two men, except now in David, the scale has multiplied because Adam ruled over an empty garden, David rules over a filled kingdom.

So David's first act as king of this garden city is not to hang out in a hammock and eat grapes. His first act is a dammock like Adam. His first act is combat. He steps onto the battle as Adam should have done.

And he is as a representative of his people goes to war with the serpentine man named Goliath. Just as Adam was supposed to go to war with the serpent who came and mocked the living God, Goliath mocks the living God and David goes to war.

And unlike Adam who cowered behind a woman, David crushed the serpent man, even chopping off his head, giving a unique perspective on the promise that your seed will crush his head. David is certainly not the fulfillment of it, but he's a type and an echo of it.

And for a moment, it looked like that the Adamic family had finally succeeded. Have you ever met a family where they always lose? And all their hopes and dreams are placed into their child. And then their child follows in their parents' footsteps and generational sins and patterns happen and the fall happens again and again and again, over and over again.

You see this in alcoholic families where the father who spends his life looking at the bottom of a bottle, prays that it won't infect his sons. And yet over and over and over again, it does. So for a moment, the family of Adam was cheering.

We got one.

We got one who's gonna do it. We got one who's gonna make it.

He's gonna be the one that God called him to be. He's gonna be the dirt boy made into the garden king who killed the intruding serpent, but his genetics of Adam caught up with him. Adam sees, desires the fruit, takes it, eats it and brings upon himself death.

David sees the woman, desires her, takes her and brings upon him death. Adam attempts to cover his sin with leaves. David attempts to cover over his sin with administration. Adam hears God saying, where are you?

And he cowers. David hears the man of God saying, you are the man, David. And like Adam, he trembled. And like Adam who brought sin into his own house, David's sin brought death into his own house. Adam loses a son because of his sin.

David loses a newborn son because of his sin. Adam's family fractures and fratricide, meaning that one brother killed another. Cain killed Abel and because of David's sin, one brother kills another. Amnon is killed by Absalom.

It is the same story again. Adam is forgiven and exiled into a thorn field world. David is forgiven, but the sword will never depart from his house. And as the thorns continue to pierce Adam, the sword will continue to pierce the house of David.

The Bible is not painting these connections in crayons. It's screaming to us that David is the second Adam, a fifth Adam even. He's Adam reformed from the dust, reanimated by the breath of God, recommissioned to guard the sacred space, re-equipped to make war with the pesky serpent, re-enthroned on behalf of God.

And yet what scripture presses down upon us most devastatingly clear is that while David is probably the very best attempt the family of Adam had, he is a man after God's own heart, you know. Like the four Adams that came before him, his fall too would be fantastic.

And he would bring his people into ruin as we shall see. Five Adams are raised from the dust and five Adams have fallen into ruin. That is the entire story of the entire Old Testament. And if you doubt me, you can tell it in less than 30 seconds.

Adam was raised up to be fruitful, multiply sin, but he fell short of that. And his sin now filled the earth full of sin so that the Lord had to punish that. And then God raised up Noah to wash the world clean and yet to start the creation process over.

Noah sinned, he fell, his people fell at the Tower of Babel. Abraham was raised up to be another kind of Adam. He's blessed, his family's gonna be blessed, the whole world's gonna be blessed through Abraham.

Abraham falls, his people end up in slavery in Egypt. God raises up Israel out of slavery, promises them that they're gonna be light to the nations, and yet they fall and they become enslaved in cycles of idolatry.

And then God raises up a king. And that king is supposed to lead the people of Israel into freedom and into covenant loyalty. And from the book of 1 Samuel to the book of Malachi, we see the devastating results of the children of Adam trying to accomplish what a true Adam was called to do.

That's the entire story of the Old Testament through five men. Now, to understand this even better, we're gonna look at the seven aspects that we've seen in every single covenant. Every covenant has seven aspects, and that begins with the covenant head.

Every covenant has God selecting a man, an Adam, and then binding the fate of the many to the obedience of the one, which is another way of saying that God always begins by raising up a representative who will represent a people so that if he succeeds, they succeed.

If he wins, they win, but if he falls, they fall. That is the Bible's governing logic. Adam was raised up to be head over all humanity, Genesis two through three. Noah was raised up to be head over all the world, Genesis six through nine.

Abraham was raised up to be head over all the peoples, Genesis 12, 15, and 17. Israel was raised to be head over all the nations, Exodus four, 22 through 23. And now in 2 Samuel seven, David is raised up to be head over all of God's people, his true Israel.

Notice what God says. Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel. Notice the grammar here correctly and carefully. God does not say that I appointed you over a special genetic people.

God does not say I appointed you over 12 tribal allotments called the Israelites. God says, I appointed you over my people Israel. God is not saying the people who have a green card in Judea. He's saying the people who are called by his name and love him and worship him, his elect people.

God has given David headship over the elect people of God, my people, the true Israel. Israel means in Hebrew, the one who wrestles with God, not the one who has their citizenship papers. So David has given headship over the people who wrestle with God, the king of the nation of kings, the priest over the nation of priests, the ruler over the people of God, which of course means so much more than ethnic Israel.

You remember Caleb, not an Israelite. Ruth, not an Israelite. Rahab, not an Israelite. The mixed multitude that came out of Egypt, not an Israelite. And yet all of them were my people Israel. This is reinforced by a single word in the promise where God says, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you and your house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever.

House here does not mean architecture. David had a cedar house, which at the time was fancy. Doesn't mean palaces, castles, or summer cabanas on the Mediterranean coast. It means a dynasty. It means a house for David, a line of kingly men who will come from his own loins that he will be head over who will then be head over all of God's people.

And that's exactly how covenant headship works. What happens to the head falls down to the body. When David is faithful, the kingdom experiences rest, 2 Samuel 7. When David sins, the sword is not gonna depart from his house.

And in his sons, the future sword wielding sinful kings of Israel, we will see that the sin does not depart from the house of David because the head fell, they all fell. When God says, when your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up a descendant after you and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

I want you to hear the weight of that promise. God is promising David that David's kingdom won't live David. And it's not one generation. It's a forever eternal kingdom that God is promising to David.

Forever does not mean it has a terminus. Forever does not mean that it has an expiration sticker. Forever means as long as the earth lives, as long as seed time and harvest, as long as sun rises in the morning and moon rises at night, as long as there is oxygen to be breathed on this earth, as long as there are minutes and seconds, as long as there is life, David's kingdom will be standing which is astounding.

And we'll have to look at more of that in just a moment. My point is, is that David's head and what's promised to the head will trickle down to all the parts. David is promised a forever kingdom. So we will see how that plays out in David's progeny.

Number two, every covenant has stipulations that need to be obeyed in order for the covenant to be effective. For instance, you get into a covenant with a bank. You say, I'm gonna pay you this amount of money for this car.

You make the payment. That's the stipulations. You pay the payment. You make the stipulations. You get the blessing of driving the car. You don't make the payments. Eventually they come and take your car and you get the curses of the covenant.

Same thing with house covenants. Same thing with marriage covenants. If you continually break your marriage covenant, you should not be surprised when you lose your marriage covenant because there are curses for disobedience and there are blessings for obedience.

And all of those are based on the stipulations. Now in the Davidic covenant, the stipulations are royal and generational. For instance, in verse 14 of chapter seven of 2 Samuel, I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.

And when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men. That sentence tells us exactly the stipulations that God requires of the line of David, of the sons of David, of the kings that are gonna come from David's loins.

They must rule as a son of God.

Did you catch that?

It said, I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me. This is a forever covenant. So every son of David is gonna be a son of God. Every son of David is gonna be in Hebrew, what is called Mashiach.

Anybody know what Mashiach stands for? Messiah, anointed one. David's sons are gonna be little M Messiahs, Mashiachs, anointed ones, sons of God. Just like Adam was called firstborn son of God, just like Israel is called firstborn son of God, David is called now son of God.

He must rule under God and the fear of God as a son of God. And the way that this happens in Deuteronomy, it tells us that he is to hand write a copy of the Torah so that he can read it. That's Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus numbers in Deuteronomy.

Now, I live in an era and you live in an era where we do not hand write anything anymore. And I had a professor in seminary, this was not that long ago, shame to say, who was old school. This guy had us hand write our entire exam, long form essays, and one of these magical inventions called a notebook.

And by the end of it, I was wishing that my wife could come and bring me an ibuprofen because my hand was throbbing. And I wrote probably less than 15 or 20 pages. Imagine sitting there tediously, meticulously, handwriting the book of Genesis, 50 chapters of biblical narrative, and then follow that up with Exodus, which 40 chapters, and then Leviticus.

And then imagine the painstaking detail of making sure that you do not forget the long lobe of the liver. And then numbers, the census material. Did you carry the one? Did you put the comma in the right place in the number?

And then Deuteronomy, which is a restatement to the second generation of the law that came before it. That's what the king was supposed to write in his little notebook. And he was supposed to have it beside his bed on his nightstand so that he could read the law of God day and night so that he could rejoice in God because he was called to be a son to God.

And God was called to be his father. And like every good father, you want your son to know who you are. The only man in all of Israel who personally owned a copy of the Bible was the king. And it wasn't because he was rich.

It was because God wanted him to know him beyond measure. If ever the priest dropped their copy of the Old Testament in a pool of water, they always had a backup copy because the king had it. That's how important the king's role was in the religious life of the people.

He was supposed to know God as his father instead of acting like all the kings and all the other nations who, if you read mythology, will tell you that they believed that they were the gods and all the people existed to serve them.

David was very clear on the fact that God is God and he existed to serve God. That's the first stipulation in the Davidic covenant. The second one is that he must have a male seed, which is interesting.

It means that he must not only have children, but he must have male children. And male children are a moral obligation in the Davidic covenant. Get that. Because if David has a kingdom forever, it only passes through the men.

So he must have men in order to have a kingdom forever. Therefore, it's a moral commandment for David to have male children. Imagine David having a Henry VIII moment where he cannot produce them. It's not going to happen because the Lord will even help David in bringing forth sons and his offspring and bringing forth sons.

That's why God says, I will raise up your descendants after you and I will establish his kingdom because the Lord is promising. Listen, you're participating in this, but I'm guaranteeing it. It's a stipulation, but God is guaranteeing its success.

The king is obligated to produce sons. The Lord God Almighty is promising that he will produce them. Generation by generation, this is the stipulation. The second one, at least of the Davidic covenant.

The third stipulation is that the king must submit to discipline and reproof. When he commits iniquity, I will correct him. Who's over top of a king?

God.

Who is in charge of the discipline of the king?

God.

So when the king fails, God disciplines him directly and God explicitly binds himself to reproving, disciplining and striking the kings, whether or not they like it or not. And he promises that he will not destroy the line by killing it through discipline, but he will preserve the line by purifying it with discipline.

And God's discipline ends up being many times ferocious discipline on these depraved kings. This is why Psalm 89, the psalm that we read earlier, says without contradiction that God will not remove his loving kindness from the kings of David.

He will visit them, however, with stripes and rods. Did you catch that? That God will, if needed, discipline them with rods and stripes, but he will not remove his loving kindness from the line of David because it is a forever kingdom.

David experiences this firsthand. He sins and God punishes him severely and yet God does not remove his loving kindness from David. Those are the three stipulations of the Davidic covenant. With every covenant, if you obey the covenant, there's blessings.

Every covenant includes blessings for obedience. In the Davidic covenant, those blessings are both intentionally Edenic and also royal. God states them plainly in 2 Samuel 7, 9 through 11. I have been with you wherever you have gone.

Sounds a lot like Adam walking and talking with God in the garden, doesn't it? And I've cut off all your enemies before you. Sounds a lot like a perfect place of peace, doesn't it? And I will make you a great name and I will appoint a place for my people and plant them, plant, garden, plant, garden.

We're not weird for thinking this way. And I will give you rest from all of your enemies. What's the seventh day of creation? Rest. So David is the second, fifth in fact, Adam, who's promised the same kind of blessings with you.

Fruitful, multiply, God will be with you. God will cut off your enemies. God will give you a great name.

God will give you shalom. God will give you rest. God will give you peace.

All of these things were promised to Adam, a righteous dominion, God living with him. Enemies restrained and pushed back to the ends of the earth authority established globally and the people planted in peace so that they may worship over all the face of the earth.

This is what was promised to Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and David. But like all four Adams before him, David also fell. But there's something actually very interesting about the curses of the Davidic covenant because the Davidic covenant does not contain covenant annulling curses like those found in Sinai.

The people of Israel had curses in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26, which would signal their total destruction and utter end. In AD 70, those curses were poured out on the people of Judah. 722 BC, those curses were poured out on the people of Israel.