1 Kings 10:9, Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel; because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness." 
	We are deep in our consideration of the fact that there was recognition, even by the regents of foreign lands, that God was to be blessed for the placement of Solomon on the throne of Israel. His evident manner of wisdom was seen and appreciated by those who were not even under his authority. 
While we saw that this statement was made by the Queen of Sheba, it reflects the majestic placement of One Who would be greater than Solomon on the eternal throne of the nation of The Lord’s people. It is a blessing for which God is to be eternally worshipped as we have been tracing throughout the scripture.
	This morning, we go forward with the words that were given to the Prophet Isaiah with respect to the King Who was to come, the Messiah, The Lord Jesus Our Christ, Our Savior, and Our Rabbi. 
	Continuing on then, please turn to Isa 62. We will read verses 1-5.
	Isa 62:1-5, For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet, Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, And her salvation like a torch that is burning. And the nations will see your righteousness, And all kings your glory; And you will be called by a new name, Which the mouth of the Lord will designate. You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, And a royal diadem in the hand of your God. It will no longer be said to you, "Forsaken," Nor to your land will it any longer be said, "Desolate"; But you will be called, "My delight is in her," And your land, "Married"; For the Lord delights in you, And to Him your land will be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over you. 
	This is the description of that which will take place when the throne of the nation of God is occupied by the Messiah. While the prophet was most likely making his reference to the Hebrew nation, we now know, because of the all-encompassing and inclusive work of Jesus, by His death and resurrection that this revealed and designated nation of God includes everyone who will call upon the name of Jesus for salvation. Jew or Gentile, free or slave, rich or poor, male or female, young or old, there is no demarcation of those who are the recipients of the great love of The Heavenly Father in the giving of His Only Begotten Son. 
	The beauty of the mighty work of Christ Jesus will be seen in the myriad pattern of the people unto whom He has become both Savior and Lord. The tapestry of humanity will be unveiled and the delight of Jehovah will shine forth from the redeemed as the Bride is revealed in the brilliance of the majesty and the glory and the splendor of the face of Jesus. It will all be to the expressed glory and honor of the Most High as all of creation revels in the great and awesome magnificence of what God has brought into place.
	The Prophet Jeremiah, while a bit less flowery in his prose, describes the continued effect that God will bring forth for the sake of those whom He has loved unto Himself. This is with respect to the designated overseers who were not caring for the flock of the people of The Lord God Almighty. Please open to Jer 23:1-8.
Jer 23:1-8, "Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the Lord. Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: "You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds," declares the Lord. "Then I Myself shall gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and shall bring them back to their pasture; and they will be fruitful and multiply. "I shall also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the Lord. "Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord, "When I shall raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. "In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, 'The Lord our righteousness.' "Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord, "when they will no longer say, 'As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, 'As the Lord lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.' Then they will live on their own soil." 
Again, we see the great theme of the salvation of those who will be brought forth as the chosen people of God, whether Jew or Gentile. In this is given the full estimation in the expression of just how much Jehovah values and loves His flock. He will personally become the great Shepherd King, from the lineage of David, The Messiah. He will make every provision for His flock and set aside those who were abusing and neglecting the care and keeping of the people whom the Lord loved unto Himself. This was by the death and resurrection of the Only Begotten of The Father. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, laid down His life for the sake of the gathering together, into one flock, all those partakers of His goodness and grace and merciful guidance into eternal life. 
Jeremiah continues, in Jer 33:1-11, with the theme of the salvation and redemption and reestablishment of those who are part of the people of the Most High God. There was a need for a change of heart that was brought forth through the fiery trial of the devastation of the earthly nation of the Lord. This brought into place that longing and that desire to be once more established and known as the nation who would bless and honor the Lord God Almighty. Here too, this prophet brings forth the picture of the wedding feast and the revelation of the glory that God will receive. All the blessing and the honor that will once more be His, as there is thankfulness and honor given to Him for all that He has done in the abundance of His awesome loving kindness.	
Jer 33:1-11, Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying, "Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name, 'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' "For thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the siege mounds and against the sword, 'While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness: 'Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth. 'And I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and I will rebuild them as they were at first. 'And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me, and by which they have transgressed against Me. 'And it shall be to Me a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear of all the good that I do for them, and they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.' "Thus says the Lord, 'Yet again there shall be heard in this place, of which you say," It is a waste, without man and without beast, "that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, "Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, For the Lord is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting"; and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of the Lord. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first, 'says the Lord. 
This is the restoration of that relationship with the Lord God Almighty, The Lord of heaven and earth as Jesus sits on the throne through the glory and the honor that He, Alone, deserves for the faithfulness and the loving kindness that He has shown. He was sent to earth to accomplish the redemption of those who would so receive this freely offered gift of God’s so great love. Then, after His faultless expression of obedience, even unto death on the cross, He was raised, not just from death, but raised into that place of honor and majesty on the throne of heaven and all that is created! Therefore, with Him as Our King, from the lineage of David, the full promise of the redemption and restoration of man with God has been accomplished forever and forever.
The next prophet to add to this so great blessing of God through the placement of the Messiah on the throne is the prophet Hosea. Please turn in your Bibles to Hos 2, verses 14-23, so we can read together the prophetic declaration of what will be in place with the seating of the Christ as King over all that is created. This will be the restoration of the relationship that was ever to be. Again, the representation is that of the bride and the bridegroom being brought together in the glorious relatedness of righteousness and loving kindness.
Hos 2:14-23, "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Bring her into the wilderness, And speak kindly to her. "Then I will give her her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. "And it will come about in that day," declares the Lord, "That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali. "For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be mentioned by their names no more. "In that day I will also make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky, And the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, And will make them lie down in safety. "And I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and in compassion, And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will know the Lord. "And it will come about in that day that I will respond," declares the Lord. "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth, And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine, and to the oil, And they will respond to Jezreel. "And I will sow her for Myself in the land. I will also have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion, And I will say to those who were not My people, 'You are My people!' And they will say, 'Thou art my God!'" 
Then listen to the Prophet Zechariah, as voiced in Zech 9:9-17. Herein we have the established fulfillment of how God will prove Himself mighty and glorious. The crown of His Sovereignty will be adorned with the jewels of those whom He has saved from the terror of abuse and torment and enslavement to the fetters of this age.
Zech 9:9-17, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem; And the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to the nations; And His dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth. As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you, I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold, O prisoners who have the hope; This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you. For I will bend Judah as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece; And I will make you like a warrior's sword. Then the Lord will appear over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord God will blow the trumpet, And will march in the storm winds of the south. The Lord of hosts will defend them. And they will devour, and trample on the sling stones; And they will drink, and be boisterous as with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Drenched like the corners of the altar. And the Lord their God will save them in that day As the flock of His people; For they are as the stones of a crown, Sparkling in His land. For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins. 
The Apostle Paul, in Eph 5:25-27, then gives us the completed picture of what will be in place as the King, The Lord Jesus Christ, brings forth His Bride, the Church, to be presented to the whole of creation. This will be with the great love with which He has loved her unto Himself. Incorporated in this is the matter of how we are to live forth, in our marriages, with the pattern and the selfless love with which He so loved us unto Himself. There is that cleansing and working power of His resurrection love which should be manifested in our dealings with those whom God has put into our lives as husband and wife. The representation of marriage is that which is to come forth in the revealed glory of His majesty and His praise.
Eph 5:25-27, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless. 
Our final text of this consideration is found in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, chapter 19, verses 11-16. It draws to a complete close the blessing that will be forthcoming unto God in the establishment of His Kingdom in the ruling might and power of the Only Begotten Son of God, sent to earth through the lineage of David, to sit upon the throne forever and forever.
Rev 19:11-16, And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself. And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." 
There is no greater blessing that God could receive but that which was put into place through the obedient service of Jesus as He bore the sins of you and me and all those who would but turn to Him and receive that freely offered salvation from sin and death.
He is the King of kings and The Lord of lords. For that tremendous and amazing and accomplished work of God’s Omnipotence, and Omniscience, and Omnipresence, He is to be blessed today, tomorrow, and forevermore. So be it!
Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel; because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness." Amen. 

This morning’s benediction is Zech 8:7+8. "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Behold, I am going to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west; and I will bring them back, and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem, and they will be My people and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.' Amen.