REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Fifteen -The Worthy One

 Ah, "the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah"! John is familiar with the prophecy that Jacob, the ancestor of the Jewish race, pronounced concerning his fourth son, Judah: "A lion cub Judah is. From the prey, my son, you will certainly go up. He bowed down, he stretched himself out like a lion and, like a lion, who dares rouse him? The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander's staff from between is feet, until Shiloh comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong."  (Genesis 49:9, 10)  The royal line of God's people  stemmed from Judah.  Starting with David, all the kings who ruled in Jerusalem until the Babylonians destroyed that city were Judah's descendants. But not one of them was the Shiloh prophesied by Jacob. Shiloh means "He Whose [Right] It Is." Prophetically, this name pointed to  Jesus, the one whom the Davidic Kingship now permanent belongs. - EZEKIEL 21:25-27; LUKE 1:32, 33; REVELATION 4:4

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