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"The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his
feet, until Shiloh come." Gen. 49:10. Jews and Christians both admit that
Shiloh means the Messiah, and that the Scepter is that Royal staff
and sign which Kings hold in their hands, as a mark of their Kingly
Power and Authority. When, then, did the Scepter depart from Judah?
Above 607 B.C. In proof of this see Dan. 1:1 and 2; 2 Kings, 24:1, 13, and 2
Chronicles 36 6 and 7; and now see Christians' own "Union Bible
Dictionary," p. 138, under the head of "Captivity." They
there say, that the fourth (and last) "Captivity of Judah took
place A. M. 3416," THEN THE SCEPTER DEPARTED.
Jesus, their Messiah, was not born until about A. M. 4004, so that, according
to their own account, and the Testimony of God's Word, both declare that there were above
607 years that the Scepter departed from Judah BEFORE their Shiloh, or
Messiah, came;--so that Jesus could not be the true Messiah. Christians, what
will you do in the end thereof?
I will put it in another form.
If the "Scepter were not to depart from Judah until
Shiloh (Christians say Jesus) come," how was it that the Christians' Shiloh was not born
until A. M. 4004, and the Scepter departed from Judah 607 years before that? See Dan. i. 1,
2; 2 Kings 24:1 and 13, and 2 Chronicles 34:6, 7. "Is Wisdom no more in
Teman?"* i.e. Edom, (Jer. 49:7,) or has the Word of God proved false and untrue? Nay Verily.
Because David was the Anointed† or Messiah
of God, (see 2 Sam. 23:1,) and will be the Messiah in the Redemption, as is declared in
Jer. 30:9; Ezek. 34:23 and 24, and 38:22-24, and Hosea 3:5, and Psa. 89:19 to 30. And David
was born above 400 years before the Scepter departed from Judah.
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