Acts 15:16

“After these things I will return and build again the dynasty of David which has fallen into decay, and will build again the ruins of the same and set it up” (Amos 9:11-12). James quotes this prophecy in the Jerusalem council, of course giving it full New Testament endorsement, plainly and positively stating that our Savior will return to the earth after we shall have preached the gospel to every nation, thus calling out the elect and getting the Bride ready for the return of her Divine Spouse. James here positively certifies, in harmony with the old prophets, that, after we have preached the gospel to every nation, our glorified Savior will return to the earth and restore again the temporal kingdom of David, which at that time was in dilapidation and so continues to the present day. “Tabernacle,” E. V., is skeenee in the original, and means dynasty, or the royal line of David. [See Robinson's New Testament Greek Dictionary.] David's kingdom was not human, but divine, i. e., the theocracy extended down on the earth, but centralized in heaven, on which our Lord was crowned when He ascended (Acts 2:30), the lineal heir of David, and which He will encumber till His Father shall make all of His enemies on the earth, i. e., royal rivals, political and ecclesiastical, His “footstool” (Acts 2:35). Then He will return according to these prophecies of both Testaments, restoring the interregnum of David's kingdom on the earth and extending it throughout the inhabitable globe, Himself crowned King of kings and Lord of lords to reign forever.