43. The Lord is called David. This is apparent from the following:

...in that day...they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. (Jeremiah 30:8-9)

Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king, and they shall come with reverence to Jehovah and to His goodness at the end of days. (Hosea 3:5)

I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall give them pasture — My servant David. He shall give them pasture and become their shepherd. And I, Jehovah, will become their God, and...David a prince among them. (Ezekiel 34:23-24)

...that they may become My people, and I become their God. David My servant shall be king over them, that they may all have one shepherd.... Then they shall dwell upon the land..., they, their children, and their children’s children, even to eternity; and...David shall be their prince to eternity. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant.... (Ezekiel 37:23-26)

I will make an everlasting covenant with you — the sure mercies of David. Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people, a prince and a lawgiver for the nations. (Isaiah 55:3-4)

On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, and close up its fractures; I will restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old. (Amos 9:11)

...the house of David shall be like God, like an angel of Jehovah before them. (Zechariah 12:8)

In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David.... (Zechariah 13:1)

98. The Lord Came into the World to Fulfill Everything in the Word, and to Become as a Consequence Divine Truth, or the Word, Also in Outmost Expressions

That the Lord came into the world to fulfill everything in the Word may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord 8-11. That He became as a consequence Divine truth, or the Word, also in outmost expressions — this is what is meant by these words in John:

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as though of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

To become flesh is to become the Word in outmost expressions.

What the Lord was like as the Word in outmost expressions — this He showed His disciples when He was transfigured (Matthew 17:2ff., Mark 9:2ff., Luke 9:28ff.). And we are told in Luke that Moses and Elijah appeared in glory. Moses and Elijah mean the Word, as may be seen in no. 48 above.

The Lord is also described as the Word in outmost expressions by John in the book of Revelation, in chapter one, verses 13-16, where everything in the description of Him symbolizes the outmost expressions of Divine truth or of the Word.

The Lord, indeed, had embodied the Word before, but in its first origins. For we read:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. It was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1-3)

But when the Word became flesh, then the Lord became also the Word in outmost expressions. It is because of this that the Lord is called the First and the Last (Revelation 1:8, 11, 17, 2:8, 21:6, 22:13).