Messianic Titles
Son of David
Heir to the Throne
Description
Jesus is the Son of David—the rightful heir to David's throne, fulfilling God's promise of an eternal kingdom. Matthew opens his Gospel establishing Jesus as 'the son of David.' The crowds hailed Him as Son of David when He entered Jerusalem. The blind called out for mercy from the Son of David. Yet Jesus posed the puzzle: if David calls Him Lord, how is He merely his Son? The answer: Jesus is both David's descendant according to the flesh and David's Lord by His divine nature.
Key Verses
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord... If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.