A Glory-Filled Kingdom (2 Chronicles 8-9)

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:28-29 ESV)

One of our challenges while on earth is to understand the kingdom God has prepared for us. One of the ways that our Lord has shown us pictures of this kingdom is through his people, Israel. In particular, God made a promise to David that God would establish his kingdom through David’s offspring and that kingdom would be established forever (cf. 2 Samuel 7:12-13). The Chronicler has spent his time showing the wisdom and wealth of David’s son, Solomon, and his building of God’s house in the first seven chapters of 2 Chronicles. Now that the temple to the Lord is complete, the Chronicler is going to show the nature of this kingdom. Solomon, as David’s son, stands as a foreshadowing of David’s greater, future offspring, Jesus Christ. This modeling is highlighted by the fact that the Chronicler does not record Solomon’s failure as David’s son. Rather, the Chronicler continues to reveal the success and glory of this kingdom. Open your copies of God’s word to 2 Chronicles 8-9 and we are going to look at these vivid pictures of Solomon’s kingdom and consider how they are foreshadowing the kingdom that Christ would establish that cannot be shaken that we are receiving…

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