THE PROMISES: (2 Sam 7:10)
1. I will appoint a place for my people Israel to dwell in their own place,
2. I will plant them. 
3. The sons of wickedness will oppress them no more.

This reveals that Israel's security and rest from their enemies was dependent upon God's covenant with David.  The security and peace of God's people was and is dependent upon God establishing righteous rulership. 

This was a lovely promise God made to David.  The only problem with it is that it has never been fulfilled.  Except for a few short periods of peace, Israel was continually oppressed and misled by its leaders. 

Where would God plant them? 
Part of Jeremiah's commission was "to plant". 

Jer 1:10  See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant."

Jer 24:5  "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.  6  'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up

Other prophecies also make the same point. 

Amos 9:14-15  I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. 15 I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them," Says the LORD your God.

Jer 23:1-6  "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" says the LORD. 2 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: "You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings," says the LORD. 3 But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking," says the LORD. 5 "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 6 In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

These thoughts are confirmed by the prophecies in Daniel. 
You remember the vision of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2.  He dreamed of the great image with the head of gold, the breast of silver, thighs of bronze, legs of iron and feet of iron and clay.  These  represent kingdoms that would dominate the world until the stone from heaven smashed them and set up a new kingdom. 
Worldwide Gentile domination was prophesised until the Messiah returned to restore Israel. 

Chapter 7 records Daniel's' vision of the 4 beasts.  One was like a lion, one like a bear, one like a leopard and the other beast very different to the rest. The fourth beast devours the whole earth and wears out the people of God until judgement is cast against it, and then the kingdoms under heaven are given to the saints. 
Again we find that on the world stage Gentile domination was prophesised until the Messiah returned to restore Israel.  The dominant nations of the world until Christ returns will be Gentiles.  
It is the same in Daniel 8 in the vision of the rams, and in Daniel 9 with the 70 weeks prophecy. 

Dan 10:14  "Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come."

The fortunes of Israel can only be restored by Christ's' return  

Acts 1:6  Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

Acts 3:21  "whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

As Hosea 14:4-7 shows, all this can only happen when God heals Israel's unfaithfulness. 
So these great blessings to Israel of restoration, covenant blessings and even world prominence will only occur when God heals their unfaithfulness and when the Messiah returns.  Until then the people of God - who are Israel - will continue to be under Gentile oppression, living in the land of the Gentiles.  We are a scattered people, waiting and longing to be gathered and planted in our own land under Jesus Christ. 

(2 Sam 7:14) God promised to be Father to David's descendants (I will be his father and he shall be my son) 
This statement reveals a couple of things.  Firstly, God wanted to become the Father to the kings of Israel and they could have been His sons, for the well-being of his nation Israel.   

Turn to 2 Kings.. 
By virtue of the king's role as the nation's head, he was in a position to mediate the covenant of God with the people of Israel.  Josiah gathered the nation together, read the book of the covenant to the people, and personally committed himself to live according to the covenant. All the people then also joined in the covenant. 

2 Ki 23:1-3  Now the king sent them to gather all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him. 2 The king went up to the house of the LORD with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD. 3 Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book (so the king set the example). And all the people took a stand for the covenant.

So God desired to have a very close relationship with the kings of Israel, so that he could care for and bless his people through their leadership.  But it rarely happened, as we know. 

The second thing I wish to consider in 2 Sam 7:14 is that there would come a King who was not only the Son of David, but also The Son of God.  He would receive the ultimate fulfilment of all the promises. 
Through the promises that God had made throughout history, the Son of God was expected. 
In the account of Adam and Eve being lead into sin we also have the first preaching of the gospel, in Gen 3:15.  That verse tells us that through one of Adam's seed would come one who would undo the damage that sin had and done and would do.  That promise was further confirmed to Abraham and the patriarchs through whom the seed would come, and by whom all the nations of the world would be blessed.  This promise was to be fulfilled through the covenant with David.  Here we find that the Promised One would not only be descended from David, but would also be called the Son of God (1 Chr 17:13). 

I have found it amazing to realise that in the time of Christ, they knew that the Messiah would also be the Son of God. 

John 1:49  Nathanael answered and said to Him,  "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

John 11:27  She (that is Martha) said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."

Mat 26:63  But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, "I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!"

2 Sam 7:11; 1Ch 17:10 - God promised to establish David's house.
2 Sam 7:12 - He promised to raise up David's offspring and establish his kingdom. 

2 Sam 7:11  "(afflicted as formerly) since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and have caused (or I will cause) you to rest from all your enemies".
Also the LORD tells you that He will make you a house.

1 Ki 2:24  "Now therefore, as the LORD lives, who has confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has established a house for me, as He promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today!"

1 Ki 11:38  'Then it shall be, if you heed all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build for you an enduring house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

Psa 89:38-45  But You have cast off and abhorred, You have been furious with Your anointed. 39 You have renounced the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. 41 All who pass by the way plunder him; He is a reproach to his neighbors. 42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice. 43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword, And have not sustained him in the battle. 44 You have made his glory cease, And cast his throne down to the ground. 45 The days of his youth You have shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah

This is how God will multiply the sons of David and Levi according to the covenant: 

Jer 33:22   "'As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.' "

Zec 12:8   ""In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them."  
(Ps 82:6; 1Jn 3:2; Rev 1:6; 5:10) 

Isa 55:1-3  "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you; The sure mercies of David. 

Under such care and favour from God, David's offspring would build up a house for God. 
This promise was fulfilled in type by Solomon when he built the temple (1Kg 8:12-13,29). 

1 Ki 8:12-13  Then Solomon spoke: "The LORD said He would dwell in the dark cloud. 13 I have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forever." 

Heb 3:6  but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. 

Eph 2:19  Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 

1 Tim 3:15  but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 

Zep 3:14-20 describes the fulfilment of some of the covenant promises which Christ mediates:  

Sing, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! 15 The LORD has taken away your judgments, He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; You shall see disaster no more.  (security under the Messiah)  16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: "Do not fear; Zion, let not your hands be weak. 17 The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. 18 I will gather those who sorrow over the appointed assembly, Who are among you, To whom its reproach is a burden. 19 Behold, at that time I will deal with all who afflict you; I will save the lame, And gather those who were driven out; I will appoint them for praise and fame In every land where they were put to shame. 20 At that time I will bring you back  (establish them in the promised land),  Even at the time I gather you; For I will give you fame and praise Among all the peoples of the earth  (their name would be made great as God made David's name great),  When I return your captives before your eyes," says the LORD. 

2 Sam 7:13-16  "He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. 15 But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever." 

Psa 89:1-4 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations. 2 For I have said, "Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My servant David: 4 'Your seed I will establish forever, And build up your throne to all generations.' " Selah 

Psa 89:34-37   My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips. 35 Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David: 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me; 37 It shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky." Selah 
(2 Sam 7:13-16; Ps 89:3-8,26-29,34-37; 132:10-18). 

David's throne was called the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel 

1 Chr 28:5  "And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel. 

2 Chr 9:8  "Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, setting you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God! Because your God has loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness." 

2 Chr 13:8  "And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are the gold calves which Jeroboam made for you as gods.

God's promise to maintain David's throne forever is unbreakable because God has sworn he will do this (Ps 132:11; 89:3-4,33-34; Jer 33:20-21).  However, individuals had to continue to be faithful if they were to inherit the blessings promised to David 

1 Ki 9:4-5  "Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.' 
(1Kg 8:25; 2Ch 6:16). 

Solomon was told that the throne would be temporarily suspended because of idolatry (1Kg 9:6-9).  Hosea was told that Israel would dwell without a king for many days (Hos 3:4).  The same thing happened to the nation even though God had promised that the descendants of Abraham would possess the land forever (2Ch 20:7). 

Hosea 3:4-5  For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days. 

Therefore there could be a time when no-one was sitting on David's throne.  The promise was conditional.  God will ultimately fulfill it, but the promise in the short-term was conditional.  
It is through God's grace, that he will eventually bring the promise to its full realisation (Ps 89:29-37), and the throne of David will be established in steadfast love (Isa 16:5). 

How is this throne set up? What throne and kingdom does the Bible say will continue forever? 

Isa 9:7  Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this. 

So this is how the promise is fulfilled:  Jesus Christ will sit on the throne of David, which is the throne of the Kingdom of God. 
When does Christ take possession of David's throne? 

Act 2:30-33  And so, because he (David) was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn to him with and oath to seat one of his descendants upon his throne, he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ....33 Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God... 

Acts 2:36  "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." 

Rom 1:4  and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. 
(i.e. the Son of God as promised in the covenant) 

Acts 13:33-34  "God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.' 34 And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: 'I will give you the sure mercies of David.' 

And so take a moment to consider the power and significance of Peter's sermons to the Jews. 

Acts 2:22-36  "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know; 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.   25 For David says concerning Him: 'I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope. 27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.'   29 Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, 35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."' 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."

THE PROMISE OF AND NEED FOR GODLY LEADERS.
How do we feel about leadership today? 
Our calling is between God and ourselves; Jesus Christ is the only mediator that we need.  But the health and well-being of our congregations and, to a degree, our own spiritual health depends upon godly leadership. 
Something that bothers me is that some people are rejecting leadership altogether. Some are declining to exercise leadership because of the danger of being criticised for whatever stand is taken. Others are becoming more and more mistrustful of anyone who even looks like they are exercising leadership. God's covenant with David shows that where there is a lack of God-inspired leadership the people of God are ravaged. It is inevitable. 

It is thus within the context of the covenant that God made with David that the hope of Israel was bound.  God's covenant with David encapsulated the restoration and exultation of Israel, which will lead on to salvation for all God's people. 

It was within the restoration of the tabernacle of David that the Gentiles would seek the true God (Am 9:11-12; Act 15:14-17).  The resurrection of Jesus Christ was the first major step in the rebuilding of the tabernacle of David, (Act 2:30-36) and Christ's second coming will be the next major one.