"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: (12) That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. (13) Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. (14) And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. (15) And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God."
If we had the least doubt to what day this referred, or what was meant by the raising up the tabernacles of David, the Apostles of Christ would determine both. See Acts 15:16-17. And if we could after this hesitate, or need enquiry further concerning the David spoken of the general scope of prophecy would soon settle this point.. The tabernacles of David can mean no other, than in their fallen and ruined state, our poor ruined nature. But yet as belonging to our spiritual David, the Lord Jesus Christ, it must be raised again in him. And under the beautiful figure of husbandry, the plowman, and the reaper; the mountains, and the hills dropping sweet wine; surely, nothing can more delightfully set forth the spiritual blessings of the gospel. Here the Lord may truly be said to bring hack the captivity of his people, and to feed them with a fulness of salvation. And, I pray the Reader to observe, how blessedly the Prophet closeth the whole, in the assurance the Lord gives of the everlasting duration of his people in him, and under his favour. Perhaps a more blessed promise is not to t be found in the whole body of prophecy. It is similar to that glorious one of the same kind in the writings of the Prophet Jeremiah; and it is confirmed with Jehovah's own solemn declaration, saith the Lord God. Yea, saith (the Lord), I will rejoice over the in to do them good; and I will plant them in this land assuredly, with my whole heart and with my whole soul. Well may all the faithful say, Amen. Jeremiah 32:41.