Our Coming King

He is King of the Jews (racial king); King of Israel (national king); King
of all the the Ages; King of Heaven; King of Glory; King of Kings...and
Lord of Lords. Do you know Him? Do you really?
He is a prophet before Moses; a priest after Melchizedek; a champion
like Joshua; an offering in place of Isaac; a king from the line of David;
a wise counselor above Solomon; a beloved/rejected/exalted son like
Joseph. And yet far more...

The Heavens declare His glory and the firmament shows His handiwork.
He who is, who was, and who always will be; the first and the last; He
is the Alpha and Omega, the Aleph and the Tau, the A and the Z; He is
the first fruits of them that slept.
He is the “I AM that I AM” - The voice of the Burning Bush!

He is the Captain of the Lord’s Host; the conqueror of Jericho. He is
enduringly strong, entirely sincere, eternally steadfast; He is immortally
graceful, imperially powerful, impartially merciful;
In Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily, The very God of very
God. He is our Kinsman-Redeemer and He is our Avenger of Blood; He
is our City of Refuge, Our Performing High Priest, Our Personal Prophet,
Our Reigning King.

• He’s the loftiest idea in Literature;
• He’s the highest personality in Philosophy;
• He’s the fundamental doctrine of Theology;
• He’s the Supreme Problem in “higher criticism”!
• He’s the Miracle of the Ages; the superlative of everything good.

We are the beneficiaries of a love letter: it was written in blood, on a
wooden cross erected in Judea 2,000 years ago.
He was crucified on a cross of wood; yet He made the hill on which it
stood.
By Him were all things made that were made; without Him was not
anything made that was made; by Him are all things held together!
What held Him to that cross? It wasn’t the nails! (At any time He could
have declared, “I’m out of here!”) It was His love for you and me.

He was born of a woman so that we could be born of God;
He humbled Himself so that we could be lifted up;
He became a servant so that we could be made co-heirs;
He suffered rejection so that we could become His friends;
He denied Himself so that we could freely receive all things;
He gave Himself so that He could bless us in every way.
He is available to the tempted and the tried; He blesses the young; He
cleanses the lepers; He defends the feeble; He delivers the captives; He
discharges the debtors; He forgives the sinners...
He franchises the meek; He guards the besieged; He heals the sick; He
provides strength to the weak; He regards the aged; He rewards the
diligent; He serves the unfortunate; He sympathizes and He saves!
His Offices are manifold; His Reign is righteous; His Promises are sure;
His Goodness is limitless; His Light is matchless; His Grace is sufficient;
His Love never changes; His Mercy is everlasting; His Word is enough;
His Yoke is easy and His burden is light!

He’s indescribable; He’s incomprehensible; He’s irresistible; He’s
invincible!

The Heaven of heavens cannot contain Him; man cannot explain Him;
the Pharisees couldn’t stand Him (and learned that they couldn’t stop
Him); Pilate couldn’t find any fault with Him; the witnesses couldn’t
agree against Him; Herod couldn’t kill Him; death couldn’t handle Him;
the grave couldn’t hold Him!

He has always been and always will be; He had no predecessor and will
have no successor; You can’t impeach Him and he isn’t going to resign!
His name is above every name; that at the name of Yeshua every knee
shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord! His is
the kingdom, the power, and the glory... for ever, and ever...Amen!

Genesis vs. Revelation

Genesis                               Revelation


• Earth Created 1:1
                                            • Earth Passed away 21:1

• Sun to govern Day 1:16
                                            • No need of sun 21:23

• Darkness called night 1:5
                                            • No night there 22:5

• Waters He called seas 1:10
                                            • No more sea 21:1

• A river for earth’s blessing 2:10-14
                                            • A river for New Earth 22:1,2

• Earth’s government (re: Israel) 37
                                            • Earth’s judgment (re: Israel) 16:8

• Man in God’s Image 1:26
                                            • Man Headed by Satan’s Image 13

• Entrance of sin 3:6
                                            • End of sin 21:27

• Curse pronounced 3:14-17
                                            • No more curse 22:3

• Death entered 3:19
                                            • No more death 21:4

• Man driven out of Eden 3:24
                                            • Man restored 22

• Tree of life guarded 3:24
                                            • Right to Tree of life 22:14

• Sorrow & suffering enter 3:17
                                            • No more sorrow 22:4

• Nimrod founds Babylon 10:8-10
                                            • Babylon falls 17,18

• God’s Flood to destroy evil generation 6 - 9
                                            • Satan’s flood to destroy elect generation 12

• A bow: God’s promise 9:13
                                              • A bow for remembrance 4:3; 10:1

• Sodom & Egypt: corruption, judgment 13,19
                                               • “Sodom & Egypt”(Jerusalem) 11:8

• A confederation vs. Abraham’s people 14
                                              • A confederation vs. Abraham’s seed 12

• A bride for Abraham’s son 24
                                              • A bride for Abraham’s Seed 21

• Marriage of 1st Adam 2:18-23
                                             • Marriage of Last Adam 19

• Man’s dominion ceased; Satan’s begun 3:24
                                            • Satan’s domain ended; man’s restored 22

The Design of the Gospels

                    Matthew         Mark              Luke               John


Presents as: Messiah           Servant           Son of Man     Son of God

Genealogy: Abraham                --              Adam              Eternal

                  (Legal)                                    (Blood line)      (Preexistence)

What Jesus Said                  Did                 Felt                  Was, Is, Will Be

To the:        Jew                  Roman            Greek               Church

1st Miracle: Leper               Demon           Demon              Water to
                  cleansed            expelled         expelled               Wine
                  (Jew = sin)

Ends with Resurrection      Ascension        Promise of         Promise of
                                                                Spirit:                 Return:
                                                                Acts                   Revelation

Style:         Groupings        Snapshots        Narrative           Mystical

Ensign:          Judah            Ephraim           Reuben              Dan
Camp Side:    East             West                South                 North
Face:              Lion              Ox                  Man                   Eagle

Why is there Evil in the World? Ravi Zacharias

Stand to Reason: A Good Reason for Evil

Stand to Reason: A Good Reason for Evil

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Just Stop and Think

The Sceptre Passes from the Sanhedrin

The sceptre 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.    Genesis 49:10

The term “scepter” refers to their tribal identity and the right to apply and enforce Mosaic Laws and adjudicate capital offenses: jus gladii. It is significant that even during their 70-year Babylonian captivity (606-537 b.c.) the tribes retained their tribal identity. [Josh MacDowell, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, pp. 108-168.] They retained their own logistics, judges, etc. (Ezekiel 1:5,8) The term “Shiloh” was understood by the early rabbis and Talmudic authorities as referring to the Messiah. [Targum Onkelos, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, and Targum Yerusahlmi, The Messiah: An Aramaic Interpretation; The Messianic Exegesis of the Targum, Samson H. Levy, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, 1974.] The Hebrew word shiloh should be rendered “whose it is,” that is, the scepter will not depart from Judah until He comes to whom it belongs.

Sceptre Departs

In A.D. 6-7 A.D., King Herod’s son and successor, Herod Archelaus, was dethroned and banished to Vienna, a city in Gaul. Archelaus was the second son of Herod the Great. The older son, Herod Antipater, had been murdered by Herod the Great, along with other family members. (It was quipped at the time that it was safer to be a dog in that household than a member of the family!)

After the death of Herod (4 B.C.?), Archelaus had been placed over Judea as “Entharch” by Caesar Augustus. Broadly rejected, he was removed in A.D. 6-7. He was replaced by a Roman procurator named Caponius. The legal power of the Sanhedrin was immediately restricted and the adjudication of capital cases was lost. This was normal Roman policy (Josephus, Wars of the Jews, 2:8. Also, The Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin, folio 24.)

The scepter had, indeed, been removed from Judah, but Shiloh had come. While the Jews wept in the streets of Jerusalem, a young son of a carpenter was growing up in Nazareth. He would present Himself as the Meshiach Nagid, Messiah the King, on the very day which had been predicted by the Angel Gabriel to Daniel five centuries earlier (Dan 9:24-27).