A Star Out of Jacob
- Messiah
Morning star = connecting the "star" with Israel and the day of the
Lord's judgment.
Revelation 22:16
I Jesus have sent mine angel
to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root
and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
A Star out of Jacob refers to the books of Numbers and
Samuel. The promise is, "to him will give power over the nations: And he shall
rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to
shivers; even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star"
(Revelation 2:26-28).
Here again the literary order in the Apocalypse goes forward with the historical
order: for it is in the book of Numbers that we have the basis of this promise
given to the same People, who were the subjects of it there. For "there shall
come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out
of Israel, and shall mite the corners (princes) of Moab, and
destroy all the children of Sheth. And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also
shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. Out of
Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that
remaineth of the city" (Numbers 24:17-19).
This promise and prophecy had a first foreshadowing fulfillment in David;
showing what was in store for David's Son and David's Lord: even for Him who was
the "root and the offspring of David."
Luke 1:31-33 tells of His conquest, and of His reign on David's throne.
David, we have said, foreshadowed it: for
he could say in the words of his song, "thou hast girded me with strength to
battle; them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. Thou hast also
given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate
me.... Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did
stamp them as the mire of the street" (2 Samuel 22:40,41,43).
This was the theme of David's song "in the day that the Lord had delivered him
out of the hand of all his enemies."
And this heralds the yet more glorious song in honour of David's Lord when
the kingdoms of the world shall have become the kingdom
of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever
(Revelation 11:15).
The promise is given in this fourth Epistle, because the prophecy of Numbers
24:17-19 has never yet been really fulfilled. "The day-spring (the morning star)
did visit His people" (Luke 1:78); but He was rejected; and therefore the
fulfillment remains in abeyance, as well as that of Luke 1:31-33.
In Revelation 2:26-28 the time is at hand for the fulfillment of it.
Hence the promise is repeated; and in Revelation 20:4 we see it accomplished;
for the "morning star" shall then have risen (Revelation
22:16), and the prophecy of Psalms 2 shall be fulfilled.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.