Thou lovest
righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath
anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows
and Hebrews 1:8-9 But unto the Son he saith,
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness
is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and
hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
(B) Jacob (Israel) has had twelve sons but it is
Judah that is to be the kingly tribe and through whom the Redeemer is to
come.
This prophecy will not be fulfilled in part until
King David is born and we learn that the Messiah is to come through his
family line cf: II Samuel 7:12-17 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou
shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which
shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He
shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his
kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he
commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the
stripes of the children of men: But my mercy shall not depart away from
him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. And thine
house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy
throne shall be established for ever. According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
Then of course a thousand years later Jesus the
Christ is born of the tribe of Judah through Joseph his step father cf:
Matthew 1:1-18 and also Mary his virgin mother cf: Luke 3:23-38
(C) "Lawgiver". Hebrew word: khaw-kak', to engrave
or enact, appoint, decree and the power of capital punishment. In a lesser
sense, the kings of Judah who are to come will have authority to rule by
decree or enact Laws and carry out capital punishment. But in a far greater
sense, the Lord is the Law Giver (Isaiah 33:22) and the Lord Jesus is the
Law Giver who can save (James 4:12).
(D) "Shiloh", Hebrew shee-lo, take out an epithet
of the Messiah, literally meaning here: "To Him to Whom it belongs". What
belongs? The scepter! The real King, the real Law Giver who is to come of
the tribe of Judah !
(E) The people will be "gathered" by the Messiah or
Redeemer. "Gathered" in Hebrew yaw-keh, is to obey, obedience, the saved
will obey Him.
(F) When the Messiah comes. His coming to present
Himself will have something to do with a "foal", an "ass's colt. Cf MK.
11:1ff
Mar 11:1-11 And
when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount
of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, And saith unto them, Go
your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered
into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and
bring him. And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that
the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. And
they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a
place where two ways met; and they loose him. And certain of them that
stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt? And they said
unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go. And they
brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon
him. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down
branches off the trees, and strowed them in the way. And they that
went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is
he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of
our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the
highest. And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when
he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come,
he went out unto Bethany with the twelve
Thus we close our study in the book of Genesis,
step by step we have noted the development of the Messianic idea and the
promises of the "Seed" or the Child to come in this first book of the Bible.
