“Stop weeping. Look! The Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered so as to open the scroll and its seven seals.” (Rev. 5:5)

 9. Who is this ‘Lion of the tribe of Judah,’ and what does this title indicate about him?

⁹ Who, now, is this Lamb whom the Holy Bible identifies as the “Lion that is of the tribe of Judah” and as a life-giving “root” to the first Judean king of Jerusalem, named David? It is Jesus Christ, the fleshly descendant of the patriarch Abraham and of King David of the tribe of Judah. (Gen. 49:9, 10; Matt. 1:1-6) His being called “the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah” means that he was the “Shiloh” who was to come and to whom “the obedience of the peoples will belong.” This meant that he was to be the King (as his forefather David had been) of a real government to which all the peoples of the earth would have to be subject for their own good. As David had been anointed as king and was therefore an anointed one, so his royal Descendant would be an anointed one, whom the Hebrews called “Messiah” but whom the Greek-speaking Jews called “Christ.” That is why we have the expression “Jesus Christ” (Jesus An Anointed One) or “Christ Jesus” (Anointed Jesus). But if he is likened to a kinglike Judean lion, why is he also likened to a “lamb”?