Sunday, 10 August 2008

The Amazing Word Concerning The Coming Messiah

In John 1:3 we are told that “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” This verse teaches that Jesus Christ was with God the Father before the creation. And in the time of the creation Jesus Christ was with the Father to create all things. He is the second person of the Triune God. The promise of the Lord seen in the prophetic history is to be fulfilled that this second person of the Triune God, the Messiah will be revealed to mankind. He will take the form of man in order to save sinners from their sins.

All prophetic history down from Adam and Eve showed that the Messiah was on veil and it was not so clear yet, but through the progressive revelation it shows its clear meaning and significant. Thousands years later, God called Abraham, one man, through whom he will bring blessings to all nations of the earth. In the book of Genesis, we are told that it was not because how righteous Abraham was, for he was just like us, sinners saved by grace but the Lord chose him through whom the seed of the woman will come.

When Jacob was in Egypt, he said to his twelve sons just before his death that Judah was the one through whose line the Messiah will come which is also called “Shiloh” ‘the one who is right it is,’ ‘to whom the kingship belongs’ in the light of Ezekiel 21:25-27. The Messiah would not only be born of the woman but to be the descendant of the Abraham by the eliminating Ishmael, and Esau narrowed down to Jacob and narrowed down to Judah.

In the time of Moses, four hundreds years after Joseph died; Israelites were in desperation, persecuted in Egypt. They cried to the Lord and He sent Moses to be the deliverer for the children of Israel. But Moses was the most reluctant leader that ever known and yet in Numbers 12 tells us that Moses was the most meek man. He was the only man that ever said in the Bible in that way. On the other hand the Lord Jesus Christ also said the same thing that He “is meek, and lowly in heart” (Matthew 11:29). However though Moses was chosen as the deliverer for the Israelites Moses was not given the Promised Land because of one act of disbelief and disobedience.

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