“Judah, your brothers shall praise you;
your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
your father's sons shall bow down before you.
Judah is a lion's cub;
from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down; he crouched as a lion
and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;
and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.(Genesis 49:8-10 ESV)
Joseph knew what it was like to have his father's sons bow down before him. But at great as he had become in the land of Egypt, and had been a blessing by his position to many peoples, he knew that there would be another in the line of his family's seed to come who would have his people and all people bow before him as King. As great as Joseph had risen among men, there was One to come who would be above all kings and men - the Messiah, the Lion of Judah.
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