A Righteous Promise
“Behold, [the] days are coming,” says the LORD, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.”
Jeremiah 23:5 NKJV
The Messiah had to meet another condition: He would be a descendant of King David, whom God described as a man after His own heart.
God promised David that if his descendants loved and obeyed God, then David would always have a man from his family line on the throne. But many of the kings who came after King David were corrupt, forgot God, and did evil in Israel.
After that time, Israel was sometimes ruled by foreign powers, just as it was ruled by Rome when Jesus was born. But God did not forget His word. The Lord promised that a righteous King—the King of all kings—would be born from among David’s heirs.
His name is Jesus.