2 Samuel 7:12 · World English Bible
When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
The seed set up after David is no ordinary wish grown to full size. The promise names a particular son, David himself, all of humanity fused into one youth and carried within a man until the day he comes forth.
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The seed set up after David is no ordinary wish grown to full size. The promise names a particular son, David himself, all of humanity fused into one youth and carried within a man until the day he comes forth. When a man's days are fulfilled, he sleeps with his fathers, and this sleep runs deeper than the grave. In it God lies down inside humanity and forgets, for a while, that he is God. Out of that sleep the son is raised.
The kingdom established here is fatherhood itself. The heart of this covenant is not a throne but a birth from within. The son proceeds from a man's own depths, stands before him, and by calling him Father makes him what he already was. This one son rises and shows the sleeper to be God the Father.
Manifestation lens
What in me is still underground, and can I let it stay there long enough to grow?
The valley holds the low place and everything flows to it. What looks like emptiness is what gives birth.
The one became many and sleeps hidden in each. What you call yourself is that one, forgetting itself for a while.
He dreamed he was a butterfly, and on waking could not say which one was dreaming the other. The sleeper and the one who wakes are not two beings.
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