Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

It is worth saying out loud that the first offspring of David to prefigure our Lord Jesus was David's daughter, Tamar. David has been called to be what Israel failed to be. But David has fallen short. We saw last time that Nathan said that David's sin with Bathsheba would be echoed in what David's "neighbor" would do publicly. 2 Samuel 13-20 (eight chapters) will flesh out that prophecy. God had warned that he would visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. Sin has consequences–and those consequences can prove deadly. But God also promised that he would show mercy to a thousand generations of those who loved him. So even as we witness the judgment to the third and fourth generations – let us also watch for God's mercy – (after all, a thousand generations would be 25,000 years! and we've only made it 3500 years so far!)