Acts 13:20-23
20 “After that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. 21 And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’ 23 From this man's seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior—Jesus—
Israel had judges to rule with God as their king until they wanted to be ruled by their own king as unbelieving nations were to be like them. But God mercifully allowed it, with King David as one after His heart and listening to God as the Sovereign over himself. So the Messiah, the deliverer from the wrath of God on the sin all are born in, He as God's Son and living word came as a man. This is the good news of life to all rightly condemned, mercy and love making justice appeased and righteousness imputed.
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