Jacob's Deathbed Prophecy - JUDAH -Continue

 Jacob foretold that Judah would have a leading role among his brothers. However, the fulfillment of that prophecy was a long time in coming. Judah was first mentioned as taking the lead some 200 years later when, after the Exodus, the tribe led the nation of Israel through the wilderness into the Promised Land. (Numbers 10:14) Decades later, Judah took the lead of the conquest of the Promised Land. (Judges 1:1, 2) And David, one of Judah's descendants, was the first of a long line of kings coming from that tribe. But there is more.

Jacob revealed that the permanent Ruler of mankind would a descendant of Judah. (Read Genesis 49:10 and footnote.) That Ruler is Jesus Christ, the one whom Jacob called Shiloh. Of Jesus, an angel said: "Jehovah God will give him the throne of David his father." (Luke 1:32, 33) Jesus is also called "the Lion of the tribe of Judah." - REVELATION 5:5.

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