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Messiah Wars: Round Two


            I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. (Genesis  12:3)
            Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him (Genesis 17:19)
            The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger. (Genesis 25:23)
            There above it stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. our descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. (Genesis 28:13-14)
           I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the sons of Sheth. (Numbers 24:17)
            The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his. (Genesis 49:10)
             Genesis has four more prophecies about the Messiah that can be covered together. The Messiah, the one through whom all nations will be blessed, would be a son of Abraham. He would also be a son of Isaac, not Ishmael. He would be a son of Jacob, not Esau. He would be a son of Judah, not any of the 11 other brothers. All of those eliminate from contention any Greek, Roman, Egyptian, or Indian contenders[1]. The only contender left in the list is Jesus. But wait... there's more....


[1] (It also eliminates King Saul's family from maintaining the scepter, because Saul was a Benjaminite. I don't know whether Saul didn't know that or forgot it.)  

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