REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twelve - "The Key of David"

 Jesus has "the key of David." Using it, he opens so that no one will shut, and shuts so that no one opens." What is the "key of David "? 

It was with King David of Israel that Jehovah made a covenant for an everlasting kingdom. (Psalm 89:1-4, 34-37) David's house ruled from Jehovah's throne in Jerusalem from 1070 to 607 B.C.E., but then God's judgment was executed upon that kingdom because it turned to wickedness. Thus Jehovah began to fulfill his prophecy at Ezekiel  21:27: "A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it [earthly Jerusalem]. As for this also, it [the scepter of kingship in David's line] will certainly become no one's until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him." 

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