Following the judgment of the great confederacies of the earth, first Babylon, then the Assyrian, all falling together with the image which included many of the peoples of these two great confederacies, the Son of man will take His place as King sitting between the cherubim. He shall come as Melchisedec King and Priest to rule with a rod of iron and dispense blessing as priest far and wide to His willing subjects. God loves to bless and will do so beyond all expectation.
The day of the kingdom is for reward. All of His servants—the church, Israel, the nations, and all who are subject—will be rewarded in the measure in which the heart has been right during the time of serving here. The church, the martyrs, and the Old Testament saints shall have their blessing in the heavens. They shall rule with Christ over the earth. Israel shall be the head and not the tail when the Son of David reigns.
“Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment” (Isa. 32:1).
“And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places” (Isa. 32:17,18).
The prophet Isaiah shows how the power will be transferred from the antichrist-king to the house of David and to One upon whom will hang all of the GLORY of His Father’s house.
“And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, Thus saith the LORD GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him” (Ezek. 21:25-27).
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it” (Isa. 22:20-25).
The glory will be restored to the house of Jacob.
BABYLON and NINEVEH stood forth as two world principles that vied for the place which belonged to Israel, POWER and GLORY.
The world system of Babylon in all of its varied aspects shall be destroyed, never to rise again. Egypt and Assyria will become tributary to Israel, who once were their captives. Edom shall be dispossessed, and the Philistines shall suffer the same fate as Edom because of the same hatred towards Israel which was never judged. All nations will be removed from the Land.