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I'm going to focus on an important Messianic prophecy.

The lion of Judah passage in Genesis 49.

It's the longest Messianic Prophecy in the Torah.

And we'll find that in the those five poetic versus from our standpoint.

Now in 2022.

We're going to be able to pull out, lots and lots of possible nuances.

This was a prophecy.

That was understood as Messianic for Jews in the second temple.

Like the Disciples of Jesus.

and then, When Jesus came, of course, there was a his disciples.

It was a great expansion of that of their understanding.

Because remember, when Jesus was resurrected, he appeared to his dispirited disciples.

And as we reading, Luke 24, everything I said everything, written about me, in the law of Moses, and the prophets in the Psalms must be fulfilled.

And he went on to teach them about the ways in which all of scripture pointed to him.

I think it's likely that with the prophecy.

I'm going to consider there probably were some nuances of that prophecy that he brought out to them that they wouldn't have seen before.

Now, of course, because of what Jesus, you know, his has taught that understanding is gone out that stuff throughout the New Testament has been passed down from Jesus's disciples to their disciples, all the way through the last 2000 years.

So that we have a really rich body of teaching about Jesus the Messiah available to us.

Actually, how many of you love to study Messianic prophecy?

Yeah.

I knew that was an obvious one and I certainly fall in that category and over the past 25 years.

I really enjoyed studying Messianic Prophecy with some very fine of angelical Christian Scholars, and I'll mention a few names.

A one person in particular is dr.

Walter Kaiser.

A water Kaiser was a graduate school.

Classmate of Marvin Wilson.

Who is very familiar to us and actually water Kaiser, and Marvin Wilson and Edwin.

Yamauchi.

I was a history professor at Miami horror.

I teach school one.

In Brandeis together, studying with Cyrus Gordon, their all in their late eighties now, but I'll still alive.

And they've left us with quite a legacy of work for us to to keep studying.

And what are Kaiser's book?

The Messiah in the Old Testament is really a classic running through a list of about 60, Messianic prophecies in and drawing out the implications.

Another rum scholar that I really like.

On the prophecy is, John sailhamer?

And I'll be drawing today on some insights, from a student of his.

Name, David Chen and I'll have some books at the end of the at the end of the slide, some of the books that are really good.

So I want to start actually with um an observation of John sale hammers.

He noticed that there was really a Messianic message build into what you might call the seams of the Hebrew Canon of scripture and other words of the transition places, where the Torah goes to the prophets.

And the prophet goes to the writings.

If you look at what's going on in to text at those transitions, there seems to be a Messianic messages being sent.

For example, the end of the Torah, Deuteronomy 34 ends with a statement written.

Presumably hundreds of years after Moses that says, hey, we're still waiting for that Prophet like Moses.

We're still at waiting for that one was to come and then the prophets starred in The Book of Joshua and God tells Joshua, okay to succeed, meditate on my word, meditate on the tour of the you've been given.

And there really isn't an ologist thing when we look at the transition from the profits to the writings.

So Malachi at the end of the profits, we know the end of Malachi's.

Very Messianic, right?

Behold.

He's coming the sun of righteousness with healing in his wings, the Days of Elijah, right?

It's very messy attic.

And then the writing started in someone who's the wise, man, the one who meditates on the Torah day and night.

so, in both of those transitions, we've got this message.

Okay, we're wait Faithfully until the Messiah comes.

And what do you do now?

You immerse yourself in God's work.

Could it be that God inspired the Hebrew, Canon to be put together to send that message if the transition points?

It could well be.

It certainly is something in common with both Jews and Christians agree.

And I was going to mention this again that the whole purpose of the of the Hebrew scriptures is to teach about the Messiah, everything in the Hebrew, scriptures teaches about the Messiah.

Now, the message of the Messiah begins in the Torah and of course begins in the very first book, The Book of Genesis.

Now, we think about the Book of Genesis and what it's doing.

Genesis covers events from the beginning in the beginning.

And we're going to see with the prophecy when look at it goes all the way out into the future.

So in the sense, all of history is really stand by the Book of Genesis.

Now, the set the stage for the end of Genesis work, we know where I'm going to end up.

We should think about the fact that there's this really thread of a message of hope that on the promise of the Messiah that begins at the beginning of Genesis, and just carries on through and in particular, in the early chapters of Genesis.

We see God giving a message of Hope really at the lowest points in human history.

But starting with, of course, Adam and Eve sinned.

And will come then to the first Messianic prophecy that that that Rob is already mentioned.

Write Genesis 3, 15 God talking to the serpent and says I just had this trip and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your Offspring.

Your seed and hers, he will strike your head and you will strike his heel.

ASRock was mentioning for Eve.

You know, she was expecting the something special was going to happen with one of her sons with one of her offspring.

Looking at this from the standpoint of now.

What we see is this conflict between Good and Evil?

That runs through all of history.

The the word for seed can refer both to a group or do an individual.

So, we're talking about those on the good side, right?

Battling the them.

See did the serpent that was those on the other side of this happens, collectively.

And also there's a hint of a specific individual, right?

Cuz it talks about his heel.

So there's a specific given individual in there as well.

We know in I've got Roman 1620 on the on the slide, right.

What Paul says that the end of the letter to the Romans,

Yes, he says in that kind of benediction, the God of Peace will shortly Crush Satan under your feet.

So really with that reference is making a reference to Genesis 3 15 and he's saying that for the people he's riding to for the Disciples of Jesus.

They are participating in this conflict between good and evil right in the in the, in the defeat of the defeat of the serpent.

So, we've got this.

Message of hope it starts right at the beginning.

and then, of course, after the Tower of Babel,

The nations are scattered, but God has a plan to bring all the nations back to him and restore blessing to everyone for.

He's going to work with Abraham.

And of course that's all summarized in the abrahamic promise from God caused Abraham and particular.

He says, right, I will bless those who bless.

You are.

The one who curses you.

I will curse Genesis 12:3 and in you all the families of the Earth shall be blessed.

Not the prophecy of this promise to Abraham is keeps being repeated.