“King David sent this message to Tzadok and Evyatar the cohanim: ‘Ask the leaders of Y’hudah, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his palace? The king has already heard that all Israel wants to return him to his palace. You are my kinsmen, my flesh and bone; so why are you the last to bring back the king?‘”-2 Samuel 19:12-13
From verse 10, the scene shifts back to the remainder of Absalom’s forces.
The soldiers had split up and returned to their own tribal territory.
However, they were in a quandary.
Their leader, Absalom, had been killed.
So, what to do now?
I want you to pay attention to what happens from this point.
You’re about to see an amazing prophetic picture unfold of how the Messiah will be restored to his own people (the Jews), who, up until now, have nationally rejected him.
This is gonna be incredible!
So the 10 northern tribes, who had been supporting Absalom, gathered around to hold a meeting about what to do now that the man they were counting on to be their leader was dead.
Their thoughts were that David had essentially lost the throne and was now living across the Jordan River.
Yet, this was the same man who, many years earlier, had freed them from the clutches of the Philistines.
So after some hemming and hawing, they concluded that having David rule over them wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
They had hoped for Absalom to become their new king.
But he was dead.
So why not invite David back to the throne?
Although the 10 northern tribes were reluctant, they decided to make it known that they would welcome him back.
However, there was one obstacle standing in the way.
David didn’t wanna return to power until his own tribe, Judah, took him back.
So David told his two loyal High Priests, Zadok and Abiathar, to gather the leaders of Judah and ask them why they never approached him about returning to the throne.
David’s thinking was, if the 10 tribes, who did NOT have a direct blood connection to him (other than through Jacob), wanted him back…
Why wouldn’t Judah, his direct blood relatives, want him back all the more?
Ya feel me here?
These strong emotions were well expressed in the following verse:
“You are my kinsmen,
my flesh and bone;
So why are you the last
to bring back the king?”
-2 Samuel 19:13
Can you see the prophetic picture unfolding here?
Here’s what I mean.
Look at these words of Yeshua lamenting over how the descendants of the tribe of Judah had rejected him:
“Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim!
You kill the prophets!
You stone those who are sent to you!
How often I wanted
to gather your children,
just as a hen gathers her
chickens under her wings,
but you refused!
Look! God is abandoning your house
to you, leaving it desolate.
For I tell you, from now on,
you will not see me again until you say, ‘
Blessed is he who comes
in the name of Adonai.’”
-Matthew 23:37-39
Now, here’s yet another cerebral cell-bursting mind bomb.
Check out these words from the Apostle Paul in the Book of Romans.
“For, brothers,
I want you to understand this truth
which God formerly concealed
but has now revealed,
so that you won’t imagine you
know more than you actually do.
It is that stoniness, to a degree,
has come upon Israel,
until the Gentile world enters in its fullness;
and that it is in this way
that all Israel will be saved.
As the Tanakh says,
‘Out of Tziyon will come the Redeemer;
he will turn away ungodliness from Ya‘akov
and this will be my covenant with them, . . .
when I take away their sins.’”
-Romans 11:25-27
Paul is making it clear that it will be the descendants of the tribe of Judah (the Jews) who will be the last group of people on planet earth to accept Yeshua as their Messiah.
These repeating patterns in Scripture are freakin’ amazing, isn’t it?!
Alrighty, so let’s recap.
Here we have David asking his own tribe of Judah…
Why, of all people, are you the last ones to take me back as the Lord’s anointed ruler over you?
The implication, of course, is that since Judah is David’s tribe, couldn’t they see the tremendous benefits of having one of their own sitting on the throne?
And Yeshua posed the exact question to the Jews in his time.
Keep in mind that the seeds of Absalom’s rebellion originated among the Jews of the tribe of Judah.
After that, the rebellion spread to other tribes.
And that’s how it went for Yeshua as well.
The leadership of his own tribe first rejected him.
And then after that, the rejection spread.
The takeaway here is clear as day.
The seeds of what is revealed in the New Testament were firmly planted in the “Old” Testament thousands of years ago.
And the prophetic fruit of this seed continues to blossom and grow to this very day.
Pretty cool, isn’t it?
See ya all next time.
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