ニューイングランドの母校からアドベントの便り、その22
2016 Gordon-Conwell
Advent Devotional | Day 23 | The Root of Jesse
Isaiah 11:10-16
Nothing can stop God from drawing us to the King. God recovers his remnants from the ends of the earth (vv. 11-12), making the way in the desert and through the waters (vv. 15-16), to prosper his people’s coming to him whom God raised as a sign for the peoples and for the nations (vv. 10, 12). This is our King who rules even over our jealousy, and forges in us a Judah and an Israel that can embrace one another and together establish the borders of the kingdom that belongs to his servant David (v. 14). Of this King the nations will inquire (v. 10), and the wise seek, asking, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?” (Matthew 2:2). This King once asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? … David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” (Mark 12:35-37). Isaiah had much to concur: This branch of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1) is also the root that Jesse is from (v. 10). Our King and our God!
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. Luke 1:32-33
Dr. Seong Hyun Park
Interim Dean of the Boston Campus; Assistant Professor of Old Testament
