This KINGDOM principle of RECIPROCITY applies to JUDGMENT
as well (Matthew 7:1-2)
When Israel was about to enter the Land - the Lord prophesied
that Israel would forsake the Lord and that He would scatter her among the heathen and that He ultimately would
be MERCIFUL to her "in the LATTER DAYS" WHEN in her TRIBULATION she would TURN BACK "and shall be
OBEDIENT unto His voice", because of "the COVENANT of THY FATHERS which He sware unto them" (Deuteronomy 4:26-31)
GOD PROMISED to execute VENGEANCE upon HIS ENEMIES and
to be "MERCIFUL unto HIS LAND, and to HIS PEOPLE" (Deuteronomy 32:39-43)
GOD'S COVENANT to ISRAEL'S FATHERS concerned THEIR SEED
and THEIR LAND
The FULFILLMENT of this COVENANT to ISRAEL'S FATHERS will
also be the FULFILLMENT of "the SURE MERCIES of DAVID" (Acts 13:34
cf.Isaiah 55:3),
which was the PROMISE concerning an ETERNAL EARTHLY THRONE to DAVID'S SON (Acts 2:29-30 cf.II Samuel 7:12-13)
DAVID'S SON will be known by ISRAEL as "THE LORD
OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Jeremiah 23:6) WHEN "He shall REIGN and prosper, and shall execute JUDGMENT
and JUSTICE in the EARTH" (Jeremiah 23:5)
The Lord decreed concerning DAVID'S SON an EARTHLY INHERITANCE
(Psalms 2:6-8) and to "RULE THOU in the midst of THINE ENEMIES" (Psalms 110:1-2),
WHEN "THY PEOPLE shall be WILLING in the Day of THY POWER" (Psalms 110:3)