There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
\nand a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is a well-known passage, but the description of the Messiah in 1a struck me freshly.\u00a0 Isaiah saw that the Messiah would not come out of a massive Davidic oak.\u00a0 He could have.\u00a0 No, in the purposes of the Lord, the Messiah would come as \u201ca shoot\u201d from Jesse\u2019s \u201cstump.\u201d\u00a0 The Lord\u00a0would lay\u00a0His people low, humble them, allow them to be slaughtered, such that\u00a0David\u2019s line was nothing\u00a0more than a\u00a0tree stump (see Isaiah 6).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
But out of that stump \u201ca shoot\u201d would come.\u00a0\u00a0Not another oak.\u00a0 Just a little\u00a0shoot, the kind one finds by the thousands on a normal sized tree.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus would not come as an oak, though He was very God Himself.\u00a0 He came as a little shoot, but that\u00a0tiny piece of wood\u00a0would grow up to take another piece of wood, a cross, and\u00a0graft in\u00a0the Gentiles to His own\u00a0tree (Romans 11).\u00a0 The wood images in the Scripture are rich, as one can see.<\/p>\n
We do well to remember the humility of Jesus\u2019 coming and the situation of Israel in that day and the ages before it.\u00a0 Jesus,\u00a0Isaiah informs us,\u00a0came as a twig.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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