Now in Daniel chapter 9, the part of the chapter that I wanted to focus on is toward the end
there beginning in verse number 24 where the Bible reads,
70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression
and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks and three score
in two weeks, the street shall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times.
And after three score in two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and the people
of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof
shall be with the flood, and at the end of the war desolations are determined.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and in the midst of the week
he shall cause the sacrifice and the ablation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make a desolate even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
And what I want to preach about tonight is the subject of the Messiah in the Old Testament.
This is a scripture in the Old Testament that actually by name talks about the coming of
the Messiah.
Now if I were to say tonight, I'm going to go through all of the Old Testament prophecies
of the Messiah.
We couldn't do it in one night.
It would go on and on because the Bible says in Acts 10 43, to him give all the prophets
witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Jesus Christ said search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and
they are they which testify of me.
All throughout the Old Testament, Genesis to Malachi, over and over again everything
is pointing us to Jesus Christ, multitudes of prophecies about the coming of the Messiah,
the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Son of David.
So I can't even hope tonight to begin to scratch the surface of the prophecies of the Messiah
in the Old Testament, but I just want to show you some really standout passages and some
really interesting passages that clearly point us to Jesus Christ as the Messiah from the
Old Testament and what that means.
Now first of all flip over to John, we're going to come back to Daniel 9 so keep your
finger there.
But go over to John, the reason I'm starting in Daniel 9 is that Daniel 9 is the only Old
Testament passage that uses the word Messiah in it.
Of course there are like I said hundreds of passages that would point us to the Messiah
and we're going to deal with a lot of them tonight, but Daniel chapter 9 is the one that
uses the word Messiah so it's a great place to start.
But let's just look at what the word Messiah means.
Look at John chapter 1 verse 41, the Bible reads in John 1 verse 41, he first findeth
his own brother Simon and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah's which is being
interpreted the Christ.
So although we don't see the word Messiah in the Bible a lot, we see the word Christ
over and over again.
In the New Testament he's called Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the term Christ
means Messiah and so this is a major important theme of the Bible.
Look over to John chapter 4 verses 25 and 26 and the Bible says, The woman saith unto
him, I know that Messiah's cometh, which is called Christ.
When he is come he will tell us all things.
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
So again we see that those who believed in the Old Testament scriptures are looking forward
to a Messiah and expecting a Messiah to come and she says Messiah being interpreted is
Christ.
Now let's go back to Daniel 9 and I want to point out something interesting about this
passage that prophesies of the Messiah.
In Daniel 9 24 the Bible reads, 70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy
city to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation
for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophecy and
to anoint the most holy.
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the prince shall be seven weeks and threescore
and two weeks, the street shall be built again and the wall even in troubled times.
And I want to point out here that the Messiah's coming is not just this vague promise that
you know what, some day, some time, we have no idea when it's going to happen, the Messiah
is going to come and we don't know when that's going to be, it could be a few hundred years,
it could be thousands of years, there is a time frame given for the coming of the Messiah.
It's not something that's just open-ended, okay?
He gives these weeks, now these weeks are not weeks of days but weeks of years, they're
periods of seven years.
So when he says 70 weeks that's 490 years, when he says you know one week that's seven
years instead of seven days.
And to go through this whole passage and to expound all of the prophetic meaning of this
passage alone is an entire sermon in and of itself.
And so that's not the scope of the sermon night, this isn't a sermon all about Bible
prophecy and explaining all about this.
But I want to point out something really clear from this passage.
We have a period of seven weeks, then there's a period of 62 weeks, and then there's a period
of one week.
But let's get the biblical order of events from this passage.
First of all, it says in verse 25, know therefore and understand that from the going forth of
the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven
weeks and threescore in two weeks.
So right away the thing that starts out the clock ticking is the commandment to restore
and build Jerusalem.
You have to understand that Daniel is prophesying after the temple has been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar,
the children of Israel, namely of the children of Judah, have been taken captive into Babylon.
Daniel is one of those Babylonian captives.
He's over there in Babylon, the temple is in ruins, and God is telling him that when
the commandment comes to restore and to build Jerusalem, that's when this time is going
to start ticking of these weeks.
Now Cyrus is the one who makes that command.
We see that commandment in the book of Ezra chapter 1.
We see that commandment at the end of 2 Chronicles and so forth.
But look what it says.
It says seven weeks and threescore in two weeks, the street shall be built again and
the wall even in trouble as times.
Now the wall is referring to the wall around the city of Jerusalem.
We read about that being built in the book of Nehemiah.
Then it says in verse 26, and after threescore in two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but
not for himself.
And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary,
and the end thereof shall be with the flood, and under the end of the war, desolations
are determined.
So here's the biblical order according to this passage.
No matter what you believe about this passage prophetically, we see a clear order that says
first you have the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem.
Then you have the street and the wall being rebuilt as a result of that commandment.
Then you have after 62 weeks, the Messiah being cut off, but not for himself.
Then you have the city and the sanctuary being destroyed, right?
That's the order.
First Messiah is cut off, then the city and the temple are destroyed, and then we have
this final week in verse 27 that says he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week,
and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the ablation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations he shall make a desolate, even until the consummation
and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
And of course we believe that that has not happened yet.
That is the abomination of desolation that Christ tells us to look for, that's still
going to come in the future with the anti-Christ and so forth.
But what I want to point out is that clearly, according to this scripture, the Messiah is
cut off before the city and the sanctuary were destroyed.
Now when Jesus Christ walked on this earth, the city of Jerusalem was still standing.
And remember how Jesus went to the temple and preached and spoke, so the temple is still
there, right?
After Jesus Christ died and was buried and rose again, that temple was destroyed in the
year AD 70.
That temple was destroyed and it's never been rebuilt to this day.
People have tried to rebuild it, people have thought about rebuilding it, but even to this
day that temple is left in ruin, just as Jesus Christ said, see ye not all these things?
He said, not one stone shall be left on another that shall not be thrown down.
And that is where we're at today with the temple completely destroyed.
So let me ask you this, how is it that the Jews can say, oh we're still waiting for the
Messiah to come?
When the Bible is telling us right here in the Messiah passage that the Messiah is going
to be cut off before the temple and the city of Jerusalem are destroyed, that already happened.
So the Messiah would have had to have already come before that temple was destroyed according
to this passage, no matter what you believe about this passage.
I mean it's pretty clear when you look at that passage.
Let's go to Psalm chapter 2, Psalm chapter number 2.
Now besides just looking for passages that use the word Messiah, that's a pretty short
list, Daniel chapter 9, there are all kinds of other scriptures that talk about the Lord's
anointed, which if we remember the word Messiah means Christ and the word Christ means anointed.
Let me show you that Christ means anointed.
In Psalm chapter 2 verse 1 it says, why did the heathen rage and the people imagine a
vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the
Lord and against his anointed.
Now keep looking down at your Bible there, I'm going to read for you from Acts chapter
4.
You look down at Psalm 2, 1 and 2, and I'm going to read for you from Acts 4, who by
the mouth of thy servant David has said, why did the heathen rage?
Do you see that in verse 1?
And the people imagine vain things, the kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were
gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.
So when it says the Lord and against his anointed, that comes forth in the New Testament as against
his Christ, because that's what Messiah or Christ means, the anointed.
And it says, for of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both
Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together.
Now in this passage in Psalm 2 we have a very clear prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ as
being the Son of God, okay?
This anointed, this Christ, this Messiah was to be the Son of God.
Let's keep reading.
This is what they're saying, let us break their bands asunder, verse 3, and cast away
their courts from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his shortest pleasure.
What have I said, my king, upon my holy hill of Zion?
I will declare the decree.
The Lord hath said to me, watch this, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts
of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel.
Be wise now, therefore, you kings, be instructed, you judges of the earth, serve the Lord with
fear and rejoice with trembling.
This the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but
a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
So here we see that the Lord's anointer, the Lord's Christ, is the son of God.
He says unto him, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
Hebrews 1 says, that was never said unto any of the angels, thou art my son, this day have
I begotten thee.
And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.
This is a passage of Christ being the son of God.
Now go to Micah chapter 5, Micah chapter 5, because not only is Christ referred to as
the son of God, he's also known as the son of David, and this is really important as
we look at these passages in the Old Testament that prophesy of the coming of the Messiah.
In fact, this anointing of Christ has to do with the fact that in the Old Testament, the
priest would come and anoint the king.
Remember Saul was anointed, David was anointed, and when the Bible talks about the Lord's
Christ or the Messiah coming, the anointed one coming, it's going to be the king of the
Jews.
It's going to be the one who would rule and reign on the throne of his father David, the
son of David.
That's who Jesus Christ was when he showed up, the king of kings, the Lord of lords,
the king of the Jews.
I mean, when Jesus Christ died on the cross, remember how they put a sign above his head
as he died?
What did that sign say?
You know, this is Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.
And it was written in three languages, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
But it says here in Micah 5.2, and again, there are lots of scriptures in the Old Testament
that talk about Jesus being the son of God, just allusions to the son of God.
Like for example, even in Daniel 3.25, when Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are in the
fiery furnace, and Nebuchadnezzar sees the fourth man in the fire and says the form of
the fourth is like the son of God.
Or in Proverbs 30 verse 4, it says, you know, of God, what is his name?
What is his son's name?
We saw the son of God mentioned in Psalm 2, etc.
And again, that's a whole other sermon.
But look at Micah 5.2, it says, but thou Bethlehem, Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands
of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose
goings forth have been from of old from everlasting.
So here is a prophecy of a ruler that will come out of Bethlehem.
That's what Jesus Christ is, a ruler.
Look at Isaiah chapter 9.
That's what it means to be the anointed, Isaiah chapter 9.
That's what it means to be the Christ.
He's going to be the king that will sit on that throne of David, his father.
It says that he will be the ruler in Israel.
And here's another great thing about Micah 5.2, speaking of Bethlehem.
It says, whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting.
And that phrase, from everlasting, is a very profound phrase, showing that Christ had no
beginning.
When we think of everlasting, it means that it never ends.
From everlasting means coming from the infinite past.
The Bible says in the beginning was the word.
It was already there in the beginning.
It says in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God.
The word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory is of the
only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.
And if you remember when the wise men went unto Herod and they said to him in Matthew
chapter 2, where is he that is born king of the Jews?
For we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him.
They're looking for the king of the Jews, they saw the star arise, they probably read
the scripture in Daniel about the coming of the Messiah, the prince, and the amount of
weeks, the amount of years that would happen until then.
And he says to them in Matthew 2, you don't have to turn there in verse 3, it says when
Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled in all Jerusalem with them.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded
of them where Christ should be born.
And they said unto him, in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet, and
thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah are not the least among the princes of Judah, for
out of these shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel.
That's who Jesus is.
The king of the Jews, the anointed son of David that would come and rule, be born in
Bethlehem and inherit the throne of David his father.
Look at Isaiah 9-6, it says, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and
the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, wonderful, counselor,
the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace, of the increase of his government
and peace, there shall be no end.
Upon the throne of David, pay close attention to that, and upon his kingdom to order it
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever, the
zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Now why is it so important that Jesus Christ is of the seed of David and that he's going
to sit upon the throne of his father David and that he's going to rule and reign as the
king of the Jews?
The reason that's so important is that God promised David over and over again that his
kingdom would rule forever.
Now remember how Saul sinned against the Lord, God took the kingdom from Saul and he gave
it to David, but he told David, I will not take the kingdom from you as I took it from
Saul.
And he made many promises unto David that David's seed would sit on that throne forever.
Now let me just show you a few quick passages on that.
Go to 1 Chronicles chapter 17, while you're turning to 1 Chronicles 17, let me point out
that in 2 Kings 8 verse 19, when God is judging Solomon's kingdom after it's been passed to
Rehoboam, it says, yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake
as he promised him to give him always a light unto his children.
So even when God judges the children of Judah throughout the Old Testament, he always leaves
a remnant and there's always somebody sitting on that throne that the kingly lineage of
David is always preserved.
So for example, Solomon, obviously the son of David's ruling over the whole nation, but
after Solomon's death the kingdom is divided.
Even tribes go with Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and they break off and they have a
split and they become their own kingdom in the north, but yet God allowed Solomon's son
Rehoboam to reign over one tribe of Judah.
And he told him, he said, you're going to reign over the southern kingdom of Judah because
of the promise that I made unto David.
So even though he allowed ten of the tribes to be taken away, he tells them, you're going
to have the complete tribe of Judah and then also part of the tribe of Benjamin and the
Levites and so forth.
You're saying the math doesn't add up, but that's what the Bible says.
Because the fact that in one sense there were twelve tribes, in another sense it was broken
up thirteen ways because Joseph got a double portion so you have Ephraim and Manasseh being
separate tribes, but then the tribe of Levi didn't really count because they don't get
an inheritance, they're scattered throughout the whole nation and so on and so forth.
I don't want to get too complicated with that, but what I'm pointing out is that Judah stayed
with David in order for God not to break his promise.
Because if God's sitting there and promising, look David, your seed will sit on this throne
and your throne will be established forever, God can't break that promise.
So even when David's sons sinned, he couldn't just take it away from them and put somebody
else on that throne, he had to leave them at least in charge of Jerusalem and Judah
and so forth.
Does everybody see what I'm saying there?
Now look what the Bible says in 1 Chronicles 17, 11.
It says, And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired, that thou must go to be with
thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, this is speaking to David, which
shall be of thy sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build me in house, that's Solomon, and I will establish his throne forever.
But it's also prophetic of Jesus, I'll get to that in a moment.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son, and I will not take my mercy away from
him, as I took it from him that was before thee.
And I will settle him in my house, and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be
established forevermore.
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto
David.
Okay, flip over to 2 Chronicles, actually go to Jeremiah 33, I'll just read for you
from 2 Chronicles.
Go to Jeremiah 33, it says in 2 Chronicles 21, 7, Howbeit the Lord would not destroy
the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised
to give light to him unto his sons forever.
Now isn't this a promise that's repeated often?
Because you saw it there when we turned to 1 Chronicles 17, the promise being made to
David that emphasized how it would be forever, forevermore, it's going to last forever, I
showed you 2 Kings 8, I showed you 2 Chronicles 21.
Years much later, centuries later, in the book of Jeremiah, when the children of Israel
are captive, they're in Babylon, okay, or actually they're heading for Babylon, they're
about to go to Babylon, but either way, it's around the time that they're being carried
off to Babylon, so hundreds of years later, where people are probably thinking, what's
going on with that promise made to David?
If they're going to be taken captive, if Judah's going to be destroyed, if they're going to
go into Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar's going to take over, what about that promise?
You know, people are probably thinking that when they're here in Jeremiah preach, how
they're all going captive, and then especially after they go captive, people are thinking
that.
But look what the Bible says in Jeremiah 33, just to emphasize to the people that this
promise will be kept.
It says in verse 7, and I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return
and will build them as at the first.
So he's telling them the captivity is going to come to an end.
We know it lasted 70 years, but look what it says in verse 15, in those days and at
that time, will I cause the branch, and notice that term branch, the branch of righteousness
to grow up unto David, and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely, and this is the name wherewith
she shall be called, the Lord our righteousness.
For thus saith the Lord, David, watch this, David shall never want a man to sit upon the
throne of the house of Israel, neither shall the priests, the Levites, want a man before
me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice continually.
And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah saying, Thus saith the Lord, if you can break
my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day
and night in their seasons, then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites the priests,
my ministers, as the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured,
so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah saying, Consider as thou not what this people
have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them
all.
Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Thus saith the Lord, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed
the ordinances of heaven and earth, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my
servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, for I will cause their captivity to return and have mercy on them.
Now that's a pretty clear passage that again reiterates what we saw in all the other scriptures
saying, David will always have someone sitting upon his throne and reigning, it's everlasting,
it's forever, I'm never going to break that promise, I mean it's pretty clear right?
Okay, now go to Genesis chapter 49, Genesis chapter 49, Genesis chapter number 49, now
here's what we have to understand, this was fulfilled in Jesus Christ because of the fact
that Jesus Christ is the seed of David, Jesus Christ is the king of the Jews, Jesus Christ
is the king of kings and lord of lords, he shall reign forever and ever, of his kingdom
there shall be no end, he has been anointed, he is the Christ, he's the Messiah.
Now look, is there today a king of the sons of David sitting upon that throne in Jerusalem
right now?
No way.
When was the last time someone of the sons of David was sitting on that throne?
It hasn't been for thousands of years.
Now to sit there and say, and again this kind of ties in with what I was saying about Daniel
chapter 9, how could the Jews say, oh the Messiah has not come, Jesus is not the Messiah,
Jesus is a fraud, okay, then where's the son of David sitting on the throne?
They have no one.
Where are the Levites offering sacrifice before the lord?
He said that's going to keep going, they're going to keep on offering.
Now we know that Jesus Christ came and fulfilled that sacrifice, he was the lamb of God, slain
from the foundation of the world, and there was a transfer from the priesthood of Aaron,
the priesthood of the Levites, unto the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek of the lord
Jesus Christ.
But look, the animal sacrifices did not cease until Christ came.
In the days of Jesus, the animal sacrifices were still happening.
When Jesus was born, his mother Mary brought an animal sacrifice to the temple to be purified.
The animal sacrifice did not cease until Christ came.
The ruling of the house of David did not cease until Christ came, there was always a man
descended of David to sit upon that throne.
That lamp was not put out in Jerusalem or Judah until Christ came.
Now, where is that today?
Where is the son of David today?
Where is the king of Israel today?
Where is the king of Judah today?
There isn't one.
And yet these deluded, false teachers and rabbis and prophets of the wicked religion
of Judaism say, oh Jesus Christ is not the messiah, he's a fraud, then show me your messiah.
Where is the messiah?
Oh, he's still coming, baloney.
That's not what the Old Testament taught.
That's not what the Bible taught.
The Bible taught he would come before the destruction of Jerusalem, already happened.
The Bible said that those animal sacrifices would not cease and that David would always
sit on that throne.
Where are they?
Where is it?
It proves that they do not believe the Old Testament Scriptures as Christ said.
But look what the Bible says here in Genesis, chapter 49.
Genesis 49, and the key to understanding this passage is verse 1 when you read Genesis 49.
Jacob is prophesying in Genesis 49 and he says, Jacob called unto his sons and said,
gather yourselves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
days.
He's not saying, hey, this is stuff that's going to happen in the short term, is it?
Oh no.
He says these are things that will happen in the last days.
He said, well, define last days.
Last days is not as last as you might think because the Bible says, for example, let's
let scripture define scripture.
Hebrews 1, 1 says, God who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past
unto the fathers by the prophets has in these last days spoken unto us by his son, whom
he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.
And so over and over again in scripture, you know, we could go to all kinds of New Testament
passages that define the last days as the New Testament time.
Because right there in Hebrews 1, Jesus Christ is coming.
It's known as the last days.
You say, well, how is that the last days?
Well, here's why.
Because think about it.
Before Christ came, you have about 4300 years of human history, right?
About 4300 years before Christ.
How long have we had since Christ?
You know, about 2000 years.
So which one of those periods is longer?
So here's the thing, anything after the halfway point of human history could be called the
latter half or the last half.
And really we are in the last one third of history, you know, from what we've experienced
so far.
Because the earth is approximately, if you study the scriptures, do all the math, all
the genealogies add up, all the dates and everything, the earth is approximately 6300
years old.
So when Jesus Christ came, you're already well beyond the halfway point of that.
Unless Christ doesn't come back for another 3000 years.
We know that's not going to happen, obviously he's coming much sooner than that.
But anyway, what I'm saying is that if Christ came 4300 and some years into history, approximately,
then it makes perfect sense that that which is after that in God's perspective is the
last days as opposed to the former times, the former days, which is a pretty long period
of time, 4300 and some odd years.
So when the Bible says these are the things that will befall you in the last days, you
know, if we let the Bible define itself, the time of Christ is referred to as the last
days in Hebrews 1, 1, and 2.
And elsewhere it's referred to as such.
So keep that in mind when it says gather yourselves together and let me tell you what's
to befall you in the last days.
Jump down to verse 8 because he's going to give different prophecies and blessings unto
the different tribes of Israel.
Here's what he says unto Judah.
Now the Bible says that our Lord Jesus Christ sprang out of Judah in the book of Hebrews.
We know that he's of the son of David and of course David is of Judah.
It says in verse 8, Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise, thy hand shall
be in the neck of thine enemies, thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
So what's he predicting here?
He's predicting that Judah is going to be the ruler.
When did this happen?
When did this take place?
This took place when David became the king and all of his descendants ruled for centuries
and he was promised that he would be the ruler forever, right?
Remember this is last days stuff, okay?
Right after this period where Jacob's speaking to them, they're going to go down into Egypt
for 400 years, right?
Then when they come out of Egypt, who's going to rule over them when they come out of Egypt?
First Moses, then Joshua, and then who?
The judges, 400 years under the judges.
Now of the judges, they were of all different tribes.
They were from various tribes.
If you study the 12 judges in the book of Judges, they come from all different tribes.
Samson was of the tribe of Dan, okay?
There's one of the tribe of Issachar.
They come from various tribes.
The only one that I believe came from Judah possibly is Othniel, the son of Kenaz, possibly
is of Judah, seems to be of Judah.
But the bottom line, he wasn't a major ruler though.
He was one that did have some authority.
But really, when we see Judah ruling over his brethren, and when we see his father's
children bowing down unto him, is a prediction of him becoming the ruler in the form of David
in the last days, David becoming king of Israel.
And look what it says in verse number 9, it says, 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?
The scepter shall not depart from Judah.
Now what is a scepter?
This is a tool by which kings reign.
It's a staff that they hold in their hand as a symbol of their power.
Remember, Jesus Christ would rule with a rod of iron.
The Bible says, thy throne, talking to Jesus in Hebrews 1-8, unto the son he saith, thy
throne, O God, is forever and ever, a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
That's what that scepter is.
It says the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass his colt unto the choice vine, he washed his
garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.
His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
So here we see that Judah is going to have the scepter.
This isn't referring just to a judge, because a judge does not rule with a scepter.
A king rules with a scepter, remember?
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom, it says of Jesus Christ.
So when we talk about the scepter being in the tribe of Judah, we're talking about David
becoming the king.
First Saul held that scepter of the tribe of Benjamin for 40 years.
But then that scepter went to the house of David permanently, right?
Forever.
We saw it over and over again.
And it says the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Now the pronoun him there, when it says unto him shall the gathering of the people be,
the him there could refer to Judah, Judah is mentioned in verse 10, or it could refer
to Shiloh in verse 10.
Now you say, well what is Shiloh?
Well Shiloh, there is a town in the Bible called Shiloh.
And that town is a place where the Ark of the Covenant was pitched in the days of Eli.
And before that, that's where the tabernacle was pitched, with the Ark of the Covenant.
It abode at a place called Shiloh.
Now here's the thing, I don't believe that this is referring to that town where the Ark
of the Covenant was.
And here's why I don't believe that Shiloh is referring to the town where the Ark of
the Covenant was, because the Ark of the Covenant was in that town of Shiloh before David ever
sat on the throne.
So if we look at what the Bible's saying here, it's saying the scepter shall not depart from
Judah until Shiloh come.
So if we look at this and just use common sense, Shiloh's coming after Judah has the
scepter.
Everybody noticing that?
So first Judah has the scepter, and Judah's going to continue to have that scepter until
Shiloh come.
So if it were the town, why would that town come?
Towns don't really move around like that.
To say Shiloh coming, it doesn't really sound like a town's coming, especially since that
town only had significance long before David ever sat on that throne.
So the order isn't right.
That's why I don't think Shiloh's referring to that town.
But if we look at this where it says until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering
of the people hear, the him could be referring to Shiloh.
That's the closest antecedent that we have in this verse.
So it says, until Shiloh come, and unto him, unto Shiloh, shall the gathering of the people
be, binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine, he washed
his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of red grapes, his eyes shall be red
with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Now you could say, okay, all of these he's and him's, they're all referring to Judah,
but let's say that all these he's and him's are referring to Shiloh, which actually makes
more sense since we talk about Shiloh coming, then all of these he's and him's are referring
to Shiloh, and guess what, all of these he's and him's are about Jesus.
Every single one of them.
Because Jesus is the one that rode in on a colt the foal of an ass.
Remember that's what Jesus rode into Jerusalem.
So the ass's colt, the vine, Jesus said, you know, I'm the vine, I'm the true vine, my
father is the husbandman.
The vine refers to Jesus.
The ass's colt is what he rode in on, and it says he washed his garments in wine and
his clothes in the blood of grapes.
Jesus is the one that rides in on a white horse in Revelation 19 in a vesture dipped
in blood.
His clothes are dipped in blood, and his name's called the word of God.
His eyes shall be red with wine.
He's the one who it says in the Bible, his eyes are as a flame of fire, and his feet
as fine brass.
So the redness of eyes there, the ass's colt, the garment washed in blood, the gathering
of the people unto him.
You know, beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, by our gathering
together unto him.
These are all things that clearly refer unto Christ.
You say, well why would Christ be called Shiloh?
Well first of all, why not?
Number one, Christ is called a lot of things.
His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father.
But if you look at the word Shiloh, what does it remind you of?
What does the word Shiloh kind of remind you of?
A word that you know from even your King James Bible, you don't have to go study Hebrew to
know it.
What's a word that it kind of reminds you of?
A Hebrew word that's in the King James.
Shalom.
Which means what?
Peace.
Shalom means peace.
And the Bible even uses that term.
Even Jerusalem is also from that, Shalom, Salem, is from that same root.
And this word Shiloh, you know, Christ is called in Isaiah 9-6, which is a key passage
about the Messiah.
Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulder,
his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, watch
this, the Prince of Peace, of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be
no end.
So peace is repeated twice there in reference to Jesus Christ, and it says, upon the throne
of David.
So we have, you know, the Prince of Peace, there's no end of his government and peace
sitting on the throne of David, then when we go back to Genesis 49, we have this term
that is associated with peace, this term Shiloh, which means peaceful, tranquil, you know,
that's what it means.
It's from the same word as peace.
So he's saying, the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his
feet until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
He's going to be on the ass is cold.
He's going to have a vesture dipped in blood.
You know, when you understand it in that way, now this passage makes perfect sense that
there's going to be a king sitting upon the throne of David from David, that seed is going
to be preserved, that throne is going to be preserved, that kingdom is going to stay there,
that coal is going to still remain lit in Jerusalem until when?
The coming of Jesus Christ, who is the fulfillment, the King of the Jews, who is sitting right
now at the throne of God, seated on the right hand of the majesty on high.
He is the King of Kings, he is the Lord of Lords, he is the son of David, he is the Lord's
anointed, he is the Christ, you have no other option if you believe the Old Testament.
Who else fits the bill?
He said that the scepter would not depart from Judah until Shiloh come, yet the scepter
has departed from Judah.
Can anyone deny the fact that in an earthly sense the scepter has departed from Judah?
Is Judah ruling and reigning right now?
Is the tribe of Judah represented by a son of David sitting upon the throne of his father
ruling and reigning?
No, because we know that Jesus Christ is the one who came and fulfilled all things and
is the son of David, he is the king of Israel.
He is the fulfillment of all these prophecies of the Messiah.
Let's go to one more place, Psalm 89, I mean there's so much, you can't even scratch the
surface tonight of just looking at Old Testament passages, looking at things in the prophets,
looking at things in Genesis, looking at things in Psalms, I mean it's all throughout
the Old Testament.
It would truly take years to preach all the Old Testament passages about Christ, but I'm
just showing you some key passages here, just showing you the delusion of anyone who would
say that Jesus is not the Christ.
I mean if you believe in the Old Testament, the Bible is so clear when Christ is going
to come, he's going to come before the scepter totally departs from Judah.
He's going to come before the temple is destroyed.
He's going to come and fulfill these things.
Look what it says in Psalm 89, more promises to David and to his house.
It says in verse, let me find my place here, it says in verse 3, I've made a covenant with
my chosen.
I've sworn unto David my servant, thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy
throne to all generations, see love, jump down to verse 20, I've found David my servant,
with my holy oil have I anointed him.
And again, this isn't just about David, this is a prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
With whom my hand shall be established, mine arm also shall strengthen him, the enemy shall
not exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him, and I will beat down his foes
before his face, and plague them that hate him, but my faithfulness and my mercy shall
be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
I will set his right hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers, he shall
cry unto me, thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
So I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Now when we see this passage, we know that this is a prophecy of Jesus Christ, not just
of the man David, and the seed that will endure forever of the firstborn among many brethren,
Jesus is called the firstborn among many brethren, he's called the first begotten of the dead,
and we are Christ's seed.
The Bible talks about in Isaiah 53, another great passage of the Messiah, that when Jesus
Christ would be bruised for our iniquities, when he would die for our sins, it says he
shall see his seed, talking about those that would be begotten of him, those that would
be the children of Jesus Christ through faith in Christ.
And so here we see that the seed will endure forever, that's those who believe in Christ.
The Bible says if you're Christ, you're Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Being in Christ makes you of the seed of Christ, because Christ is your Father.
It says in verse number 30, if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments,
and pay attention because you're his children.
If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments, if they break my statutes
and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and
their iniquity with stripes.
Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.
Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie unto David.
His seed shall endure forever, and his throne is the sun before me, it shall be established
forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
See again, very similar to the wording in Jeremiah chapter 33, about his throne enduring
as the sun and the moon.
It says here that the seed of Christ, when they break God's laws, he's not going to stop
loving them.
He'll discipline them, but he's not going to take away his loving kindness from them.
He will not break his promise that they will endure forever.
This is a great passage showing that we can't lose our salvation.
You know, oh you sin, you lose your salvation, wrong.
Because the Bible says of those that are saved, that their sins and iniquities are not imputed
unto them.
Now the Bible's clear that if we sin and break God's laws, God will visit us with the rod
and with stripes, whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourges every son whom we
receiveth.
But is he going to cast us out?
Is he going to stop loving us?
Is he going to send us down?
Absolutely not.
And so we see that these passages promising David an everlasting throne and a seed that
endures forever, it's not talking about Solomon and his sons, it's talking about the spiritual
seed that would come from the physical seed of David, which is Jesus.
Jesus is who fits the bill in Genesis 49.
Jesus is who fits the bill in Psalm 89.
Jesus fits the bill in Micah 5-2.
Jesus fits the bill in Isaiah 9-6.
Jesus fits the bill time-wise of Daniel 9.
And what would happen after 62 weeks?
Messiah would be cut off, but not for himself.
Why?
He didn't die for himself, he died for the sins of the whole world.
It all fits together.
It all points unto Christ.
It's all crystal clear.
But to those that are not saved, they have the veil over their face when they read the
scriptures.
They can't see these things.
That to us are as plain as the nose on your face, but those that are unbelieving, those
who reject the Lord Jesus Christ, they read the scriptures and the veil is there.
They can't see it.
The God of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not.
But we see over and over again scriptures that point us to Jesus all throughout the
Old Testament and that Jesus truly is the Messiah.
There's no question about it to anyone who looks at these verses and looks at the Old
Testament that it must all be pointing unto Christ.
And this is why we carry around a Bible with the Old Testament in it.
Because it's all pointing us to Christ.
It's all profitable unto us for doctrine.
It all supports and builds upon the doctrines that we have in the New Testament.
It all fits together and it's for our admonition.
It's for our learning.
All scriptures given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine.
And thank God that we have a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who fulfills all of this and
who has given us salvation that is not just a temporary salvation until we break his commandments.
That would not last very long.
But that it is an eternal salvation and that Christ's kingdom will never end.
Man's kingdom of the physical seed of David has already ended.
It's gone.
Well it's coming back.
Well, it's been gone for a long time.
It's been gone for thousands of years.
You know what, that temple still has not been rebuilt.
Now it will be rebuilt of the Antichrist is when it's going to be rebuilt.
We know, we already have the Messiah.
Anybody who's looking for another Messiah is looking for the Antichrist.
And someday he will satisfy them and show up and be what they're looking for.
But we know that we already have the Messiah living in our hearts.
He is our Savior.
He's our King.
He's our lawgiver and he will rule over us forever and ever.
And we will rule and reign with him forever.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for the Scriptures, Lord, and that we can read your word.
And even the Old Testament, Lord, help us to read it with our eyes wide open, seeing
the Lord Jesus Christ on every page, even of the Old Testament, Lord.
Help us to see that and to learn from it.
And in Jesus' name we pray.