“For the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will place a righteous Branch on King David’s throne. He will be a King who rules with wisdom. He will do what is just and right throughout the land. And this is his name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’ In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety.”
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The prophet Jeremiah could foresee Jesus’ first coming. Though he lived hundreds of years before Christ’s birth, Jeremiah saw by the Spirit of God that One was coming from the line of David who would blaze a trail that would ultimately touch every person in history. He would restore total justice and wisdom to a sin-gripped land. Jeremiah saw a time when Judah would be saved, and Israel would live in safety. Most importantly, he saw the name of the One who would accomplish this: The Lord Is Our Righteousness. What name could better describe Jesus? Paul saw ahead in time to the second coming of Jesus. He saw the Lord coming back from heaven “with his mighty angels, in flaming fire” (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8). Like Jeremiah, he saw ahead to the time when Jesus will set everything right on earth again—a time when He will eternally punish the wicked and they will be “forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power” (v. 9). When Jesus returns, He will assume all the glory on earth and be worshiped by both the Church and the Jewish converts. “In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety” (Jeremiah 23:6). Get ready and stay ready, for The Lord Our Righteousness is on His way. He’s coming for you!