ROMANS 15:8 JESUS WAS A MINISTER OF ISRAEL

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Jeremiah 33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

2 Chronicles 6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

2 Samuel 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Among the promises made to Israel is that David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel and his kingdom would last forever.

Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

God promised Israel would be a holy nation, a kingdom of priests; God has qualified this kingdom as being upon the earth in verse 5 when he said "all the earth is mine".

Daniel 7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

7:18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

Jesus will be given an earthly kingdom and the believing remnant of Israel will possess the kingdom forever (Luke 12:32).

Acts 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

Peter preached that Jesus rose again to sit on the throne of David.

Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

15:10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

Jesus was a minister of the circumcision (Israel) for the following:

1) For the truth of God (Romans 15:8).

2) To confirm or establish the promises made unto the fathers of the reign of Christ in the Davidic kingdom on earth (Romans 15:8 Psalm 22:28 Micah 4:2 Isaiah 2:2-4).

3) The Gentiles would praise and glorify the Lord for his mercy to them in the Davidic kingdom (Romans 15:9-12 Isaiah 11:10 Matthew 12:21). The Gentiles would be blessed through the Lord Jesus Christ and Israel in the kingdom (Psalm 72:17 Isaiah 42:1-4 Genesis 22:18 Isaiah 60:3).

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 15:24). Jesus was preaching that the kingdom of heaven was at hand; this was the promised Davidic kingdom on earth.

Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

The gospel of the kingdom was the glad tidings to Israel that their promised kingdom on earth was coming; believing Israel would reign with Christ on earth as kings and priests (Exodus 19:6 Revelation 5:10).

Luke 9:1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.

9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

The twelve disciples were sent to preach the Davidic kingdom on earth. The kingdom of God includes heaven and earth (1 Chronicles 29:11). The twelve were preaching the earthly kingdom aspect of the kingdom of God.

Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Matthew 24:3 establishes the subject of inquiry as the coming of the Lord Jesus at the end of the world. The gospel of the kingdom would be preached by the twelve disciples to the nations on earth before the end (Matthew 28:19-20).

Jesus will confirm the promises made to Israel and will come to fulfill the promise to sit on the throne of David in the Davidic kingdom on earth (Isaiah 9:6-7). Israel will posses the kingdom and reign with Christ over the Gentile nations on earth for a thousand years (Revelation 20:4); Israel will be a kingdom of priests and kings on the earth (Revelation 5:10).

The Gentiles were strangers from the covenants made with Israel (Ephesians 2:12), but God made provision for the Gentiles to come to God through Israel. The mystery revealed to Paul manifested the grace of God to the Gentiles in making the Gentiles members of the body of Christ in this, the dispensation of the grace of God (Ephesians 3:3-7