Chuck Missler: A Strange Prophecy

This segment comes from the "Ruth and Esther" commentary published by Koinonia House.

In this fascinating study, we uncover how David’s kingship was foretold centuries before his birth—hidden within the Torah itself!

Key Insights:

• The prophecy of Deuteronomy 23:2 and its connection to David’s lineage

• Why Samuel anointed Saul first, and how David was always God’s true choice

• The surprising role of Genesis 38 and the story of Tamar in the Messianic line

• How the names Boaz, Ruth, Obed, Jesse, and David appear at 49-letter intervals in the Hebrew text—encrypted in perfect chronological order

• Why this hidden code shows God’s hand guiding history long before the events of Judges and 1 Samuel

Discover how the Messianic line of David is encrypted in the Hebrew text of Genesis 38, proving again that God’s Word is divinely inspired and meticulously precise.

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There is a strange prophecy in Deuteronomy 23:2: “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.”

A little thing tucked away in the Torah, but interesting nonetheless.

If we look at Perez’s genealogy, after Perez comes Hezron, then Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse, and David. Very interesting.

See, one of the questions you need to ask yourself is: How could Samuel—just two books later, after Judges, in 1 Samuel—anoint a king of Israel from the tribe of Benjamin? In 1 Samuel, the first king Samuel anoints is Saul, a Benjamite.

But knowing the Torah, Samuel would have also known that Judah was the royal tribe. So how could he anoint Saul? The answer: David wasn’t old enough yet. It wasn’t his time. David was ordained to be king long before.

The impression you often get from Scripture is that the people cried out for a king, and so God gave them Saul. But God’s true plan was always David. Saul looked impressive—taller than anyone else in the land—and he started out well, but he turned out to be “bad news.” David, however, was the one after God’s own heart. It was prophesied in advance, as I’ll show you.

So we have Jesse and David—these last four: Boaz, Obed, Jesse, and David.

The story of Tamar, in Genesis 38, contains some surprises. If you examine Genesis 38 carefully, you discover something fascinating. Using equidistant letter sequencing in the Hebrew text, at intervals of 49 letters (7²), you encounter the following names:

• First, Boaz.
• Then, at 49-letter intervals, Ruth.
• Again, 49 letters later, Obed.
• Then, Yishai (Jesse)—the Hebrew form transliterated into English as Jesse.
• Finally, at the climactic point, David.

So, in Genesis 38, the names Boaz, Ruth, Obed, Jesse, and David appear, each separated by 49 letters—and in chronological order!

Now, some may dismiss this as coincidence, a statistical fluke in the Hebrew text. But many of us argue that there are no coincidences in God’s kingdom. What we call “chance” or “coincidence” is often God working undercover. The Holy Spirit seems to be making a deliberate point here.

And what makes this especially provocative? This is in Genesis 38—not chapter 37 or 39, but in the very chapter that links Tamar’s story with the Messianic line.

David’s lineage is encrypted in the Hebrew text of Genesis 38 at 49-letter intervals—49 being 7 squared, which is highly significant biblically.

The real mind-blower is this: it appears in the Torah, in the Books of Moses—long before the time of Joshua, the conquest of the land, Judges, or 1 Samuel with Saul and then David.

In other words, the Torah—written centuries earlier—encoded the genealogy of David, the king after God’s own heart, well before the historical events ever took place.

Pretty amazing.