Doctrine of the Lord # 42
42. The Lord is called King and the Anointed. That is because He was the Messiah or Christ, and Messiah or Christ means King and Anointed. The Lord is accordingly also meant by King in the Word. He is by the same token meant by David, who was king over Judah and Israel.
That the Lord is called King and the Anointed of Jehovah is apparent from many passages in the Word. We are told, therefore, in the book of Revelation:
...the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings. (Revelation 17:14)
And in another place:
(He who sat on the white horse had) on His garment...a name written: “King of kings and Lord of lords.” (Revelation 19:16)
It is because the Lord is called King that heaven and the church are called His kingdom, and that His advent into the world is called the Gospel of the Kingdom.
That heaven and the church are called His kingdom may be seen in Matthew 12:28, 16:28; Mark 1:14-15, 9:1, 15:43; Luke 1:33, 4:43, 8:1, 10, 9:2, 11, 60, 10:11, 16:16, 19:11, 21:31, 22:18, 23:51.
And in Daniel:
...God...will cause to rise a kingdom which shall never be destroyed...; it shall break in pieces and consume all (other) kingdoms, while it shall stand forever. (Daniel 2:44)
Again in Daniel:
I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! ...Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should worship Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion..., and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed. (Daniel 7:13-14, cf. 7:27)
That His advent is called the Gospel of the Kingdom may be seen in Matthew 4:23, 9:35, 24:14.
Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.
Ezekiel 37:23-26
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neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
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My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
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They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
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Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
