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Christmas Verses – The First Coming #8

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Ps 72:10-11 NIV

10 May the kings of Tarshish and of distant shores
bring tribute to him.
May the kings of Sheba and Seba
present him gifts.
11 May all kings bow down to him
and all nations serve him.

Psalm 72 is labeled “Of Solomon” but it is reasonable David wrote it. I would put it at 1 Kings 2 or 2 Samuel 12:25. Look at verse 8 and 9, also view 12 -17 for more about Jesus.

Verses 10 + 11 may not be the countries of the “east.”  Actually, these countries may have been in Africa or the Mediterranean area.  But it does announce that kings would come and bow down!  Even the Wise Men were predicted.

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Christmas Verses – The First Coming #7

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Psalms 24:10 NIV

Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.

Psalm 24 is one of David psalms that I could not guess where or when he wrote it.  It is a beautiful declaration which is probably why Handel incorporated it into his Messiah.  To me it sounds like Revelations 5:4 which attributes to Him strength and victory in battle.  Just make sure you have let Him in to your heart.

Christmas Verses – The First Coming #6

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Numbers 24:17 NIV

“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 people of Sheth.

The speaker of this verse is Balaam. He is noted as one who walked in the Abrahamic covenant, but he uses sorcery to conjure himself into the presences of God.  He was supposed to be cursing Israel instead he predicts the Messiah and the defeat of Edom and Seir.

The unique aspect of this is that God will use you He chooses.  Balaam has a vision and sees Jesus.  The Star of Bethlehem, I think, is mentioned here as well as a repeating of Jacob’s word to Judah about the “Scepter” belonging to Jesus.

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Christmas Verses – The First Coming #5

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Genesis 49:10 NIV

The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,[a]
until he to whom it belongs[b] shall come
and the obedience of the nations shall be his.

Jacob is the speaker of this prophecy about his fourth sons. Judah had the right of the first born, and so would have authority over his brothers.  The words for scepter and staff in Hebrew have about the same meaning – stick.  But the scepter carries the idea of clan or tribe with it.  (There are other Hebrew words for scepter.)  Staffs and rods also can be signs of authority, such as Moses’ rod in the Exodus.  This is one of many passages that talk of the “nations” and them being part of His kingdom.

 

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Christmas Verses – The First Coming #4

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Isaiah 40: 3 NIV

A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the Lord: make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.”

We need to include John the Baptist in our Christmas verses. This verse in Isaiah is repeated the most in the gospels about John.  According to Matthew 17: 11-13 John was the fulfillment of this verse and Malachi 3:1. It would seem that the teachers of the Law started the idea that these verses speak of Elijah.  Remember, they were thinking of just an earthly kingdom and a military leader.

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