King Messiah

I think Israel should have suspected all along that the true king -- the king to reign forever -- would be God himself. Remember God's comment when Israel asked for Samuel to give them a human king so they could be like the other nations? God said the people had rejected him as their king. So if God is their true king and had objections to a human king, why would he set up a merely human king for all eternity?

Filed away under reasons why we should have known King Messiah, the eternal ruler, was going to be more than David's son ...