The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to Him shall the gathering (obedience) of the people be. (Gen 49:10).
It is clear that this Shiloh is Christ for the following reasons:
1. The Spirit of prophecy always put forward Christ as the one by whom these utterances were fulfilled. He is the Seed, the Prophet like Moses, the anointed King that Hannah spoke of (1 Sam 2:10). All these are intended to point directly to the coming Messiah and the Hebrew people knew it.
2. Christ came from Judah.
3. The word Shiloh means “Him to whom it belongs”. It is not a place but a title.
4. The town of Shiloh of the Old Testament where the tabernacle was kept with Eli the high priest was not in Judah, but in the territory of Ephraim (1 Sam 1:3).
5. The Hebrew word for the town Shiloh is slightly different than that used in Gen 49:10. The place was so-called probably as a type for the presence of God in Christ that was anticipated, which the tabernacle there represented.
6. Judah had not received the sceptre when the town of Shiloh existed in Eli’s day. According to Gen 49:10 Shiloh was to come after Judah received the sceptre or rule in Israel.
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