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them to be stoned; but as for those who seemed to be the
most equitable of the citizens and such as were the most
uneasy at the breach of the laws, they disliked what was done;
they sent to the King Agrippa desiring to send to Ananus
that he should act so no more, for that what he had already
done was not to be justified; nay some of them went also to
meet Albinus, as he was upon his journey from Alexandria and
informed him that it was not lawful for Ananus to assemble a
Sanhedrin without his consent.”
THE SCEPTER DEPARTED
And so we have undisputed proof that the scepter had actually
departed from Judah just at the time when the Lord Jesus
Christ was already upon the earth in the form of human flesh:
and so Judah had actually lost the power over life and death.
Of course the implications of this is far reaching, but we will
not digress along such lines in this present discussion beyond
calling attention to the fact that the Sanhedrin had no legal
power to pass sentence of death over the Lord Jesus Christ
twenty-three years later.
So politically, the Jewish nation had now lost its existence, and
the Jews had a right to weep and mourn and bemoan their sad
plight. A right only, however, so long as they knew not that the
compensating Ruler of Gen. 49:10, “until Shiloh come,” was
already discernible on the horizon of God’s program so long as
they knew not that the blessed infant of Bethlehem had already
come into the world, and soon was to appear before the
nation as the Messianic Shiloh of Israel’s hopes. So it has been
promised in Micah 5:2.
“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto
me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been
from of old, from everlasting.”
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