V: Kingdom, Zion and Temple

Root and Offspring of David

the rightful Davidic heir and authority

Root
2 Sam 7:12-16 · shoresh (H8328)
Old Testament chain
  1. 2 Sam 7:12-16
  2. Ps 89:3-4
  3. Isa 11:1, 10
  4. Isa 53:2
  5. Jer 23:5
  6. Jer 33:15
  7. Zech 3:8
  8. Zech 6:12
  9. Rev 22:16
New Testament
Rev 5:5; Rev 22:16

The promise is made to David: "I will set up thy seed after thee... and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever" (2 Sam 7:12-13; Ps 89:3-4). Isaiah gives the image its shape: "a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people" (Isa 11:1, 10), and Jeremiah names Him the Branch raised unto David (Jer 23:5). The book reads "Offspring" as the heir of the Davidic covenant and "Root" as legitimacy and rightful authority within the promised line. Using "Root" to make Him David's pre-existent creator fails on Isaiah's picture: a root shoots from Jesse's stump, it does not plant it.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 74, 379, 384