"'Judah, your brothers will praise you. You will grasp your enemies by the neck.All your relatives will bow before you. Judah, my son, is a young lionthat has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down;like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? The scepter will not depart from Judah,nor the ruler's staff from his descendants, until the coming of the one to whom it belongs,the one whom all nations will honor.'"
How remarkable that, so early in Israel's history, Jacob would predict (in this blessing on his son Judah) the coming of Jesus, the Messiah, whom all nations will obey! God did not choose Jacob's firstborn son as the Savior's ancestor. He chose the fourth son of Leah, the wife Jacob did not love. Leah was more honored than Rachel, in the long run. What does it mean to you to know that God has everything planned from the beginning, and that in his eternal plan he makes up for what we don't experience on earth?
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