Behold our King : The Torah
Welcome to Advent season. Advent means arrival. The Christmas hymn, O Holy Night, captures the essence of this particular arrival, “Long lay the world in sin and error pining til He appeared and the soul felt its worth.”
Advent brings up the concept of the Incarnation.
Incarnation according to the dictionary means “endowment with a human body; appearance in human form. It is something embodied in the flesh.
Who or what is being embodied in the flesh?
Isaiah 9:6, 7 and Isaiah 7:14 answers these questions.
The Gospel of John starts with “In the beginning.” This connects to God Almighty, who in the beginning, created the heavens and the earth.
The Nicene Creed declares that Jesus is “God of God, light of light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.”
Jesus testified, “Before Abraham was, I AM!”
Without Christ nothing was made that was made. This excludes Him from being a made being as some cults and false religions teach.
In the Torah, God promised a Messiah.
The promise of Genesis 3:15 is called the protoevangelium by most Biblical scholars. This is the historical point when the Gospel of the Kingdom and its saving grace was first introduced into the world. A King was promised. A Champion would be born. A Savior would come. A Deliverer would arise. A Great Physician would visit this sick, sin soaked world with healing in His wings (Malachi 4:2).
Genesis 49:10 reveals through the tribe of Judah, a scepter, a lawgiver, and Shiloh, (the One who brings peace) will bring about the obedience of all people (Romans 1:5, 16:26).
Moses declared that God would raise up a prophet like him. To Him all people should listen. If not, they would be cut off and destroyed.
Acts 3:19-23 reveals that prophet to be Jesus Christ our Lord. He must be held in the heavens until the times of restoration of all things spoken by all the holy prophets since the world began.
Behold your King in the Torah and let the world receive her King.
Merry Christmas!
