The angel told Mary, “…you are to give him the name Jesus… The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David”.
The religious leaders of the day understood clearly from 2 Samuel 7:12 and Psalm 89:29 that the Messiah would be a descendant of David. The Messiah’s kingship is a theocracy. Only the Messiah is called the son of David. No prophet, priest, or other person would ever be called the son of David by God.
God established David’s kingdom, but it was a temporary kingdom in the human sense of a kingdom. God promised David that one of his descendants would be forever king in an eternal kingdom. David’s kingdom, as men see it, was destroyed by the Babylonians. However, Jesus reigns spiritually, forever inheriting David’s throne.
Daniel, the prophet, was told, “In the time of those kings (Roman), the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands–a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold to pieces.” (Daniel 2:44-45)
