![]() And that’s a good reason to give thanks today! Having conquered sin and death by His suffering, He is now our soon-coming conquering King. The Lion’s victory, the Lion’s overcoming, the Lion’s triumph was accomplished by His death as a Lamb. “ The triumphant, conquering Lion is also the slain Lamb. ![]() (The meaning of the word Shiloh is debated by biblical scholars some understand it to be one of the names of Jesus, while others simply translate it as “tranquility”or “peacemaker.”)Īs I was doing some research on this name of God, I came across a quote by Nancy Leigh DeMoss that perfectly ties these two aspects of the nature and purpose of Jesus Christ together. When we use the name Lion of the tribe of Judah to describe Jesus, we are saying He is the Messiah who is to come as King of kings and Lord of lords, ruling in His eternal kingdom. Jesus Christ is clearly identified in Scripture as a descendent of the tribe of Judah, and more specifically as of the line of David. “ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.” Genesis 49:10 NKJV The following verse is the first prediction of a royal line of David which would come from the tribe of Judah. Based on this verse, the term “Lion of Judah” became the symbol of the Jewish tribe of Judah. Genesis 49:9 describes the tribe of Judah as a “lion’s cub” (Hebrew words mean a young lion) and a “crouched lion” as if ready to attack. Today we are looking at Him as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Yesterday we looked at Jesus as the Lamb of God. “ And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.” Revelation 5:5-6 ESV Jesus is both the conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah, symbolizing His kingly authority and power,and the spotless Lamb of God, symbolizing His submission to the will of His Father to be the perfect sacrifice of the sins of mankind. Revelation 5 uses two very different animals to describe two aspects of the nature of Jesus Christ, a powerful and ferocious LION and a meek and harmless LAMB.
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