Verse 5 – This elder names two
references to Christ which are linked also by cross-referencing to His
millennial reign. First look at the root of David, who was the son of Jesse.
Isaiah 11:1 ¶ And there shall
come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his
roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD
shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in
the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the
poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the
earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be
the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and
the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’
den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a root of
Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from
Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and
the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they
shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall
spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab;
and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it
in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in
the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Christ is the Lion of the tribe of Juda [Judah].
Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion’s
whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as
a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Hebrews 7:14
For it is evident that
our Lord sprang out of Juda; of
which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
As a man, Jesus Christ’s legal
descent through both Mary and his stepfather, Joseph, was from Judah.
Matthew 1:1 ¶ The book of the
generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob;
and Jacob begat Judas [Judah] and his
brethren;
Luke 3:33 Which was the son of
Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the
son of Phares, which was the son of Juda [Judah],
Only He is able to open the book
and to loose the seven seals of prophecy.
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at
his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship
God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
The spirit of prophecy belongs
only to Jesus Christ, not the founder of any other religious or faith
tradition. You think you can figure all of this out? Well, not unless Christ
reveals it to you and to keep you from declaring yourself God-like to many other
people, as well. Don’t get puffed up.
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