Just so you understand where I was coming from :)
I asked if you thought the Scribes and Pharisees would receive a reward in eternity because you said this:
"When our Lord Jesus rebuked the scribes, Pharisees and priests of Israel, He was not going against the authority He setup for their positions, which is why He commanded what He did in Matt.23. They will have their reward."
I meant 'their' reward in the negative sense, not the positive. Those represent the 'tares' that crept in among Judah at Jerusalem. In Matt.13 Christ said the tares will be cast into the fire. But can a 'tare' turn from evil and come to Christ Jesus? Yes. Christ's Salvation is open to all peoples born in the flesh.
My subsequent comment was about the Pharisees, not the kings, as I was asking you about the Pharisees.
I don't believe in any sense that the kings and queens of this age are holding Christ's seat for him. Otherwise there would be no need of a new earth, Christ would get this one! But that's not what is happening, there will be a new heaven and new earth, and Christ will reign over the new earth. The kings and queens of this world are not Christian.
I wouldn't put it that way about David's earthly throne, like it's being 'held' for Christ. But it is written that it would exist upon this earth UNTIL Christ comes to claim it.
Gen 49:10
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The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
(KJV)
The idea of that "sceptre" is about the royal rule God committed to the tribe of Judah, specifically through David (and sons of Zarah for those who know about that). A sceptre rod is what a king holds as a symbol of their authority from God. That verse declares that sceptre is not to leave the tribe of Judah UNTIL "Shiloh" comes. Shiloh is a symbolic title for our Lord Jesus there, for Jesus is to Whom the gathering of the people will be (the time marker for fulfillment of this).
That Gen.49:10 prophecy is for the last days, as Jacob had gathered his sons to him to reveal what would happen to them in the last days per Gen.49:1. It was not meant for the time of Christ's first coming, because it should be obvious He did not 'gather' Israel to Him at that time. It's meant for the time of Christ's second coming. Thus, the earthly throne of David is to literally exist upon this earth with one of Judah sitting upon it until Christ's second coming to inherit it and the gathering to Him happens.
Ezek 21:26-27
26 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.
27 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.
(KJV)
That goes along with the riddle God gave specifically to the "house of Israel" (ten tribes) in Ezek.17. It's about David's throne being removed from king of Zedekiah in Jeremiah's day, and the crown being moved to someone else, with a total of 3 overturns until He comes Whose right it is (our Lord Jesus Christ).
Pointing out this prophecy from God's Word about David's earthly throne is not a popular subject. The orthodox Jews especially hate this being brought up from God's Word. It's a fact, even though many doctrines of men go directly against it.
The house of Judah rebelled against God, so God sent the king of Babylon upon them, and destroyed the king of Judah Zedekiah and all his son heirs. God did not destroy Zedekiah's daughters though, as the prophet Jeremiah was their kinsman redeemer and he took them into his care where he went after the destruction of Jerusalem. That ended the throne of David in Jerusalem. Since then, there has been no one of the house of David to sit upon a throne in Jerusalem. As a result, many have supposed our Lord Jesus now sits upon David's throne in Heaven, but that idea is against the prophecy in the above Scripture and also like the Matt.19 & 25 Scripture I posted.
In Matt.21, with our Lord's parable of the husbandmen, He said His vineyard would be taken away from the unbelieving Jews and instead given to a nation that would bring forth its fruits. Many have interpreted that "nation" as ONLY a general pointer to His Salvation for all believers, His Church. However, it includes more for those who've been given to understand this prophecy per the OT prophets, which is also where our Lord Jesus was pulling that from.
Isa 5:7
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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant: and He looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
(KJV)
Do you think our Lord Jesus remembered He said that about the "house of Israel" back in that Isaiah 5 chapter when He was giving the husbandmen-vineyard parable? I have no doubt that He was talking about the "house of Israel" (ten tribes) as the "vineyard" in the Matt.21 parable. The "nation" it would be given to represents His chosen servants sent to be over it, and involved the western Christian nations.
This goes along with the prophecy in Gen.48 that Joseph's son Ephraim was to become "a multitude of nations". A deeper study of Bible history reveals the western Christian nations fulfilled that prophecy as His vineyard, because it's about the people who accepted The Gospel of Jesus Christ, those who were given care of The Gospel, and that were sent as ambassadors of Christ to take that Gospel to the nations. Just so happens, kings and queens were established upon thrones in those early western Christian nations, including those of eastern Europe, and one of their specific duties was to guard and protect Christ's Church. This is why God would move King James to give His people an English Bible translation they could read. King James, just as Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, were anointed with oil and coronated upon the Stone of Scone which first appeared in ancient Ireland. All of Ireland's kings and Scotland's kings and England's were coronated upon that Pillar Stone.
