Walk Of Life – Day 28, December 2021 – Lord Jesus Christ
Root Of David
But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and [b]to loose its seven seals.” – Revelation 5:5
God had promised David, the first rightful king of Israel, that his throne would be established forever. When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever (2 Samuel 7:12-13).
This caused the people to long to see David’s greater son – the one who would rule forever. Jesus is a descendant of David by adoption through Joseph and by blood through Mary. “As to his earthly life [Christ Jesus] was a descendant of David” (Romans 1:3).
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. – Revelation 22:16
As the root and descendant of David, Jesus Christ is spiritually woven and connected throughout the entire bible from Genesis as the promised seed to Revelation as the king of kings and lord of lords. If Jesus Christ was an isolated, independent root, then both of his genealogies would be false and the perfection of the bible would have been destroyed. And since we have Christ in us [Colossians 1:27], as members of the body of Christ, we are also spiritual rhizomes, all networked together. So the bible is mathematically, spiritually and botanically perfect, [along with every other way too!
Six times in the gospel of Matthew it records people calling Jesus the, “Son of David.”
There were two blind men who needed healing who addressed him this way in Matthew 9:27. After Jesus performed a miraculous healing the crowd wondered if Jesus could be David’s son in Matthew 12:23. A Canaanite woman who wanted her daughter healed used this title of Jesus in Matthew 15:22. In Matthew 20:30 Two blind men of Jericho called out to Jesus saying “Lord, have mercy on us, son of David.” Jesus Was Called The Son Of David During The Triumphal Entry. In the temple in Jerusalem the people addressed Jesus as David’s son which we read in Matthew 21:5.
Jesus Was Born In Bethlehem – The City Of David. He Had A Messianic Title.
“What do you think about the Christ Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied. He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him Lord? For he says, “The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions (Matthew 22:42-46
When Jesus is revealed as the promised Lion of the tribe of Judah of the root of David, it reveals His deity. He is the true king and the One to whom belongs the long-awaited obedience of nations. Yet it is not His fierceness or the force of His power that makes Him worthy. The Lion has triumphed because He became a Lamb (Revelation 5:6–10; cf. John 1:29). Jesus Christ is worthy because He lived a perfect, sinless life and in shedding His blood defeated sin and death. His death and resurrection have resulted in a protection for His people and an eternal kingdom that will honor and worship God. Ruling this kingdom will be Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
