Jesus is the Messiah and He is the only one who can be!

 Genesis 49:10 is universally considered a messianic passage. Let's look at that verse in its entirety:

 "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be."

This means that there would be an uninterrupted line of rulers from the tribe of Judah all the way up to the advent of the Messiah. Jewish dynasties ended when Herod the Great who was a non-Jew ascended to the throne of Judea. As we all know, Jesus arrived at that time. So, according to the prophecy - Jesus, the Messiah, arrived exactly on time.

Question: Is it possible that someone else could come and fulfill the prophecy in Genesis 49:10?

Answer: After AD 138 not only was there no one from the tribe of Judah on the throne, there were no Jews from any tribe on the throne and in fact there weren't any Jews of any sort in Judea. All the Jews who survived the Bar Kochba revolt were forced to leave Judea and go into exile. The Jews that followed the false messiah Bar Kochba were sold into slavery in Egypt. This means that 1) the Messiah should have arrived when a non-Jew (Herod the Great) ascended the throne and 2) absolutely without any equivocation - the messiah according to Genesis 49:10 had to arrive prior to AD 138.

It is completely and absolutely positive that all Jewish dynasties of any type ceased by AD 138. It is not possible for someone born now or in the future to fulfill the messianic prophecy in Genesis 49:10 - since the time period for that prophecy undeniably expired in AD 138. This leaves the inescapable conclusion based on the messianic prophecy in Genesis 49:10 – Jesus is the only person who can be the Messiah!

J. Clontz - Finding Jesus in the Old Testament: Proving that God Exists