𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗗𝗜𝗗𝗡'𝗧 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗜 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗦?

Why didn't Jesus Christ come from the Tribe of Levi, the tribe of the priests?

I used to wonder why Jesus came from Judah and not Levi, the tribe of priests as accounted in His genealogy in Matthew 1.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for the Messiah, the One who would offer the ultimate sacrifice, to come from the line of the priests?

But then today it hit me, the sacrificial Lamb needs a priest who prepares the way.

John the Baptizer wasn’t just a wild prophet crying in the wilderness. The Gospel of Luke tells us his parents (Zechariah and Elizabeth) were both from the priestly line of Levi.

So, John was a Levite by birth, a son of a priest, trained in the lineage of those who handled sacrifices.

And what does a priest do?

They prepare the sacrifice.
They announce it.
They present it before the people.

So when John lifted his voice and declared,
“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”, he wasn’t speaking like a random preacher.
He was functioning in his priestly role,
announcing the arrival of the spotless Lamb.

Meanwhile, Jesus had to come from Judah.
Long before He was born, Israel,
on his deathbed, prophesied:
“The scepter shall not depart from Judah”

Because the Messiah would not only save,
He would rule.
He would not only redeem,
He would reign.

From the tribe of Judah,
would come the eternal King.

But here's the good news,
God's grand plan of redemption
Does not with the death of the sacrifice,
Because Jesus didn’t stay as the Lamb who was slain.

Through His resurrection,
He became our High Priest forever,
not by Levitical descent,
but by a greater and eternal priesthood.
A priest not bound by genealogy,
but crowned by eternity.

And because of that,
He doesn’t just prepare the sacrifice.
He is the sacrifice Himself.
He is the perfect and ultimate sacrifice.
He doesn’t just represent us before God.
Being the only way, He brings us directly to God.

This is the heartbeat of the Gospel.
The King became the Lamb.
The Lamb became our High Priest.
And the Priest opened the way
for us to become sons and daughters.

Only God writes a story this perfect.
Only Jesus fulfills it this completely.
And only grace invites us into it this freely.