2:2).
2. HE WAS TO COME WHILE THE SECOND TEMPLE WAS IN EXISTENCE. "Behold, I
send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord,
whom ye seek, will suddenly come _to his temple_; and the messenger of
the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts"
(Mal. 3:1).
3. THE PLACE OF HIS NATIVITY WAS A MATTER OF PROPHECY. "But thou,
Bethlehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of
Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in
Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting" (Mic.
5:2).
4. HIS LINEAGE WAS DECLARED IN THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES.
(1) _He was to be a descendant of Abraham._ "In thee shall all the
families of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 12:3). "For verily not of angels
doth he take hold, but he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham" (Heb.
2:16).
(2) _He was to be of the tribe of Judah._ "For it is evident that our
Lord hath sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing
concerning priests" (Heb. 7:14).
(3) _He was to be of the house of David._ "And it shall come to pass in
that day, that the root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign of the
peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be
glorious" (Isa.
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