Jackline Cwa

Preparation for the Messianic line. #ACallForHolyLiving Of Jacob’s 12 sons, the Messiah King had to come from one of them. ❌Reuben, the firstborn who held the natural birthright and leadership, disqualified himself through sexual sin with his father’s concubine Bilhah. Meet the man who received God’s blessing that the Messiah must come from his line, yet it was through his own sexual sin and failure in justice that he learned the true weight of that blessing. The royal blessing and scepter then rested upon Judah not automatically, but because he began showing genuine repentance and acts of mercy over time. At first, Judah prevented his brothers from murdering Joseph and instead proposed selling him into slavery. He helps Joseph to escape the Death penalty. Years later in Egypt, the transformed Judah willingly offered to lay down his own life and become a slave in place of his brother Benjamin so that their father Jacob would not suffer again. He mirrors the sacrificial lamb. Judah not only committed sexual sin with Tamar, he repeatedly denied her justice. He withheld his third son Shelah from her, broke his promise and left her in humiliating widowhood for years. When he later heard she was pregnant, he self-righteously condemned her to be burned. This sets up the Messianic line beautifully: the tribe of Judah (and the coming King) had to learn that true leadership includes doing justice, especially to the vulnerable. Jesus, the descendant of Perez would later embody perfect justice: • He defended the marginalized. • He exposed religious hypocrisy. • He offered righteousness to those the system had failed. Because of this change of heart, Jacob prophesied on his deathbed:“The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh (the One to whom it belongs) comes…” (Genesis 49:10)