“Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?”
You are a lion's cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness — who dares to rouse him? The lion image — the crouching and lying-down lion — is the image of sovereign, resting power. Revelation 5:5 identifies the Lion of the tribe of Judah as the one worthy to open the scroll. The application: the lion of Judah that crouches in power and cannot be roused is the covenant image from which the Messiah will be identified.
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