The Branch and God's Enduring Covenants

Now let's go to Jeremiah 33. "Moreover, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 'Thus says the Lord who made it, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name. Call to Me, and I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things that you do not understand. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of the city, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled down to fortify against the siege mounds and the sword. They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill their places with dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My anger and My fury. All for whose wickedness I have hidden from My face from the city. Behold, I will bring it health and healing. I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth through Yeshua Messiah. I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return. And I will build those places as at the first. 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 and by which they have transgressed against Me. Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all the nations of the earth who shall hear the good that I do to them. They shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.' That has not happened yet, everybody. That's going to happen when Yeshua returns. And then during the millennial kingdom, the thousand-year reign. 'Thus says the Lord again. There shall be heard in this place of which you say it is desolate without a man and without beast. In the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem, they are desolate without a man and without an inhabitant and without beast. The voice of joy, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say, "Praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, and His mercy endures forever." And all those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first. Thus says the Lord of hosts, in this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all of its cities there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds, causing their flocks to lie down, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the south, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah. The flock shall again pass under the hands of him who counts them, says the Lord. Behold, the days are coming, says Adonai, that I will perform that good thing which I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.' (Jeremiah 31, the new covenant). 'In those days and at that time, I will cause to grow up to David a branch, Yeshua of righteousness. He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In those days, Judah will be saved.' (Second coming events). 'And Jerusalem will dwell safely.' (Millennial kingdom). 'And this is the name by which she will be called: The Lord our righteousness.' For thus says the Lord, 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel. Nor shall the priest of the Levites lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings and sacrifice continually.' That's even through the millennial kingdom, everybody.

The permanence of God's covenant. "And the word of the Lord came to... If you can break My covenant with the day, the sun, and My covenant with the night, the moon, so that there shall not be day or night in their season, then My covenant may also be broken with David, My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David, My servant, and the Levites who minister to Me."

Jeremiah, saying, "Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off.' Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them. Thus says the Lord, 'If My covenant is not with day and night, and hath not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of His descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and I will have mercy upon them.'" Amen. Amen. And amen. My friends, He gives you a great understanding that of course the people were going to be judged, but that was not going to be the end of the Jewish people. Why? Because of the everlasting covenants, the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the new covenant. The promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the promises to the Levites. Remember, Yeshua is returning in the order of Melchizedek. With that being said, this is still going to go down with the Levites. It's going to be in the order of Melchizedek. But the Levites, the Zadok, the Zadokites, they will still be doing what they are required to do to the Jewish Messiah and honor Him with offerings, sacrifices, and all these things. That's Ezekiel 43-48. It does not replace what Yeshua did. They have to fulfill the Torah of the prophets and the Psalms to Him. They have to do all these things that they have done with Him in the promised land, in the holy district. Ezekiel 47 goes through that very clearly about the land and the holy district and the Levites and the Zadokites being there ministering to Him, serving Him, drink offerings, peace offerings, all these things that they have to do for the Jewish Messiah. So, people get confused with the Levites. The Levites are going to be with Him. The Zadok will be with Him. They have to be for them to fulfill the Torah, the prophets, and the Psalms in the millennial kingdom. Very important to understand that.

The theme of this chapter is the branch and the future restoration, along with all the other chapters we've gone through. God promises restoration despite the temple and the city's destruction. Major points: David's throne, the priesthood, and Jerusalem are restored. God's covenant faithfulness outlasts human failure.