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Ankerberg: Alright, let’s move on to the child.
You know, by and large, are there any scholars that disagree with the fact that the child
is Jesus?
Hindson: No, virtually everybody understands it’s got to be Jesus, because He’s the
one who’s caught up to the Father’s throne in the ascension.
It’s clearly talking about Jesus.
The fact that He’s a male child; now, in the King James Version it says a “man child”,
it means male child.
It doesn’t mean somebody else; this is Christ Himself.
So you get Jesus who is a descendant of the lion of Israel.
The Gospels open in Matthew 1, “The generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son
of Abraham,…” that Israel is pictured as the woman, the line, that brings forth
the Messiah.
She can’t be the Church, because she’s pictured as the mother of Christ, whereas
the Church is the bride of Christ.
And it’s a totally different role.