prophesied unto them, speaking about Reuben his firstborn as God inspired him,
about Simeon and about Levi. Then he called Judah, who was his fourth son, and
he prophesied, saying, "Judah is a lion's whelp; there shall not fail from
thy glory a prophet nor a ruler nor a captain, until He who is looked for come,
and He is the hope of the nations." We see that every prophet and king
failed from the children of Israel from the time that the Christ came, the Hope
of the nations; and the prophets and kings of Israel were from the tribe of
Judah. God ruled over the nations because they were the treasure of the Christ.
The children of Israel fled into the eastern and western parts of the earth;
fire flamed up in their Temple and their city because of what they had chosen
concerning God and His Christ as David prophesied, saying, " The kings of
the earth were assembled and those that had dominion in it; they took counsel
together against the Lord and against His Christ. He that dwelleth in the
heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision; then shall He speak
to them in His wrath and vex them in His displeasure." God did this to them
in their disobedience to the Christ.
Jeremiah the prophet prophesied, he of whom God bare witness, saying,
"Before I saw thee I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of thy
mother's womb I sanctified thee"; he prophesied by the Holy Ghost,
saying," This is our God, we will worship no God but Him. He knew all the
paths of knowledge, and gave them to Jacob His servant, and to Israel His saint.
After this He looked upon the earth and mixed with the people." We do not
know that God looked upon the earth or mixed with the people except when He
appeared to us in the Christ, His Word and His Spirit. He veiled Himself in
flesh, He who is not of us. Men saw Him and He mixed with them. He was God and
Man without sin. It was He who knew the paths of good and of knowledge and
judgment, and who taught them and made them spring up to those who follow His
command and His word. The speech of the Christ was the speech of light and life,
as the Apostles said to Him, "Thy speech is the speech
