Genesis 49:8–12
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age of frantic and pathetic leadership vacuums. Men look for their kings everywhere except for the place where God appointed one. They look to the ballot box, to the talking heads on the television, to the billionaire philanthropists, or to the latest revolutionary ideology that promises to finally fix the human condition. They are constantly searching for a scepter, for someone to wield authority, but every scepter they grasp turns out to be a flimsy reed. He saw a Scepter that would not break and a throne that would not crumble. In his blessing upon his fourth son, Judah, Jacob is not simply engaging in some fatherly well-wishing. He is laying the track upon which the entire train of redemption will run. This prophecy is the seed from which the entire concept of messianic kingship grows.