Progressive Dispensationalism by Craig A. Blaising

Author:Craig A. Blaising
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL067000
ISBN: 9780801022432
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

The Davidic Covenant and the Mosaic Covenant. The Davidic covenant was given under the dispensation of the Mosaic covenant. As a grant covenant tied to the future fulfillment of the grant covenant given to the patriarchs, its ultimate fulfillment looks beyond the Mosaic dispensation. However, the experience of the blessings of the Davidic covenant during the time of the Mosaic dispensation was conditioned by the Mosaic covenant. There was even a form of the Davidic covenant which was conditional and which correlates with the conditional nature of the Mosaic covenant itself.[17]

As we have noted, the Davidic blessing is both a form of Abrahamic blessing and the mediation of Abrahamic blessing. Under the Mosaic dispensation, the Abrahamic blessing is offered in terms of the specific blessings of the Mosaic covenant. Consequently, during that dispensation, the Davidic king is blessed and brings blessing to others precisely in terms of the Mosaic blessings spelled out in Deuteronomy 28.

The Mosaic covenant, however, can also bring God’s curse into the experience of the people. Under that dispensation, the mediation of the Davidic king can also bring God’s curse. This can happen in two ways. First, by his own disloyalty and faithlessness, the king may provoke God’s curse on the nation. Note the Lord’s warning to Solomon.

But if you or your sons shall indeed turn away from following Me, and shall not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you and shall go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all the peoples. And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, “Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?” And they will say, “Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the Lord has brought all this adversity on them” (1 Kings 9:6-9).

We see here that idolatry and disobedience on the part of the king would bring the ultimate curse of the Mosaic covenant—expulsion from the land. We also see the implication that the people would follow the example of the king in covenant faithlessness, thus showing the king’s power to influence the religious worship of the nation as a whole.

The other way in which the king might mediate the curse of the Mosaic covenant would be as an instrument of the Lord to chasten and punish those in Israel who broke the covenant. Ruling justly and in righteousness meant carrying out the requirements of the law including its punishments for transgression.

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