Lion of Judah

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Feb 17, 2023 · 4m

One of Jesus’s names is the Lion of Judah. But what does this name mean? We have to go way back to the beginning of the Bible for this question, to the book of Genesis. The ancestors of the Israelites’ tribes were the sons of Jacobwho was later called Israel (Genesis 32:24-30). Among these brothers, Judah was elevated to be the brother who would be an ancestor of Jesus, even though Judah wasn’t the firstborn in his family. . Before this happened, all the sons of Jacob ended up in Egypt when there was a famine. But here’s the shocking part: Joseph, one of the youngest sons, was already there…